Snowden says if he could go anywhere, it would 'be home'

News Manager

Milforums News Bot
Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden told a U.S. television interviewer he would like to go home from asylum in Moscow, but that if necessary he would seek to extend his stay in Russia. "If I could go anywhere in the world, that place would be home," Snowden told NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams in an excerpt from the interview that aired on Wednesday. It’s about making sure that these programs are reformed — and that the family that I left behind, the country that I left behind — can be helped by my actions.” He added that if his one-year asylum in Russia, which expires on Aug. 1, "looks like it’s going to run out, then of course I would apply for an extension.” Snowden, who fled to Hong Kong and then Moscow last year, is believed to have taken 1.7 million computerized documents. Secretary of State John Kerry invited Snowden to "man up and come back to the United States." "The bottom line is this is a man who has betrayed his country, who is sitting in Russia, an authoritarian country where he has taken refuge," Kerry told the CBS "This Morning" program on Wednesday.




More...
 
Back
Top