Edward Snowden Loses Patriot Games to Putin
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July 2 (Bloomberg) -- A week in Moscow was enough for EdwardSnowden to change his plans completely. No one has seen theNational Security Agency leaker since he landed at SheremetyevoTerminal E on June 23, intending to go on to Ecuador, where hehad requested political asylum. Now he isn’t going there: OnJuly 1, the Russian consul at Sheremetyevo reported that thenight before, Snowden asked for asylum in Russia.
Dithering by the Ecuadorean authorities and, apparently,some prompting from the Russian special services havetransformed the former NSA contractor full of romantic notionsabout Internet privacy and information freedom into a modern-dayKim Philby, destined to live out his life in a country waging acold war against his homeland.