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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-26/kremlin-says-doesnt-want-damage-us-ties-over-snowden-fbi-fsb-talks
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/26/2013 08:33 -0400
Russia won’t extradite Snowden to US – Kremlin
Moscow says security agency FSB is in talks with the FBI over Snowden. But whistleblower will not be extradited to the US, a Kremlin spokesman said, adding he is sure the fugitive NSA contractor will stop harming the US if granted asylum in Russia.
“Russia has never extradited anyone, and will not extradite,” said Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
Russian President is not handling the case of the former CIA employee Edward Snowden, as “Snowden has not made any request that is subject to consideration by the head of the state,” added Peskov.
The issue of Snowden asking for temporary asylum “was not and is not on Putin’s agenda,” Peskov said, adding that it lies in the sphere of the countries’ security agencies.
The head of the FSB Aleksandr Bortnikov and the FBI chief Robert Muller are engaged in the discussion over Snowden, Putin’s spokesman said.
Snowden, 30, has been charged with espionage and other counts by the United States for leaking classified National Security Agency documents to the media. He has been on the run from authorities for nearly two months and is currently in Moscow awaiting the results of an asylum request filed with Russia’s Federal Migration Service.
His request followed weeks of searching for a way to leave the country, which he had intended to pass through only briefly on his way to another destination. However, he became stranded because the US revoked his passport.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-26/kremlin-says-doesnt-want-damage-us-ties-over-snowden-fbi-fsb-talks
Kremlin Says Doesn't Want To Damage US Ties Over Snowden; FBI, FSB In Talks
Is Vladimir Putin, tired with Edward Snowden recasting himself as Tom Hanks in the Moscow transit terminal, about to send the NSA whistleblower packing, bound and gagged, and gift wrapped back to Obama? It increasingly appears so. Reuters reports that, in a sudden and abrupt shift to the previously defiant tone out of Putin, Russia's FSB federal security agency and its U.S. counterpart, the FBI, are in talks over the fate Edward Snowden, who is stuck at a Moscow airport, Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said on Friday. Dmitry Peskov said the Kremlin was not involved in talks over the 30-year-old American, who is wanted by the United States on espionage charges.
So did Snowden commit a huge strategic blunder by going to Russia in hopes the Russian leader will have infinite patience with the ongoing political drama which is making the Big Brother administration angrier by the day?
We may very soon find out. And what happens if and when Snowden is held in a maximum security penitentiary somewhere in the continental US - just how will Obama react to the countless supporters who line up to voice their support at any given such location? The people demand to know.
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