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FSogol

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Thu Aug 8, 2013, 05:47 PM Aug 2013

Carl Hiaasen: Snowden savors the taste of liberty in Russia

An absolutely true news item: After spending a month confined inside a Moscow airport, former U.S. intelligence contractor and National Security Agency leaker Edward J. Snowden has been granted temporary asylum in Russia.


Today I walk the streets a free man, accompanied by my two new best friends, Anatoly and Boris. They do not work for the KGB, OK? They’re professional tour guides who came strongly recommended by President Vladimir Putin.

I’ll be the first to admit that my plan wasn’t 100 percent seamless. For example, I should have figured out what new place I wanted to live in before I revealed my identity as the leaker. Clearly, I underestimated how difficult it would be to find a country that would welcome me, especially a country as free and open as the United States.


whole article here:
http://www.kansas.com/2013/08/06/2926019/carl-hiaasen-snowden-savors-the.html

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