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- America's most wanted man to remain far from Uncle Sam's reach: Whistleblower Edward Snowden granted permanent residency in Russia
Seven years after he landed in Moscow and received sanctuary from Washington's attempts to silence him, US National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted a Russian permanent residency permit.Oct 22, 2020 12:06Russia & Former Soviet Union - US court demands Edward Snowden cough up $5.2mn in royalties from memoir, claiming violations of NSA non-disclosure dealA federal judge has ruled that the US government may seize $5.2 million in book royalties from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, alleging he breached non-disclosure agreements with the agency and made “unlawful financial gains.”Oct 1, 2020 22:40USA News
- ‘CNN badly misreported this’: Edward Snowden debunks news story reporting he ‘agreed’ to give money from his book to US governmentEdward Snowden has accused CNN of twisting facts by claiming that he was willing to forfeit book proceeds in favor of the US government. He even offered a "better" headline for the contested piece.Sep 23, 2020 13:48World News
- Snowden warns that Assange extradition will lead free press to slaughterhouse as publisher’s critics blinded by partisanshipThe US drive to extradite and prosecute Julian Assange poses a grave threat to journalists everywhere, but the publisher’s opponents have placed politics over principle, and even their own interests, said whistleblower Ed Snowden.Sep 16, 2020 00:29World News
- ‘Nothing nefarious at all’: Backlash as ex-NSA chief, involved in mass surveillance revealed by Snowden, joins Amazon boardGeneral Keith Alexander, ex-director of the National Security Agency, who oversaw illegal mass spying on Americans, has been appointed to Amazon’s board of directors, drawing the ire of privacy advocates, including Edward Snowden.Sep 10, 2020 02:05USA News
- Journalist Glenn Greenwald slides ‘Pardon Snowden’ into Trump’s Twitter feed, gets a nod from fugitive whistleblowerA call to pardon Edward Snowden has appeared on President Donald Trump’s Twitter page, courtesy of a presidential retweet of Glenn Greenwald and some creative renaming of the journalist’s account.Sep 8, 2020 08:58USA News
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