
“HONG KONG (AP) -- A former National Security Agency contractor wanted by the United States for revealing highly classified surveillance programs has been allowed to leave for a "third country" because a U.S. extradition request did not fully comply with Hong Kong law, the territory's government said Sunday.”
“MOSCOW (Reuters) - Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden is booked on a flight from Moscow to Cuba on Monday, Russian news agencies Interfax and Itar-Tass cited sources at Russian airline Aeroflot as saying on Sunday. Itar-Tass cited its source as saying Snowden would fly from Havana to the Venezuelan capital, Caracas. The Russian Foreign Ministry said it was looking into the situation and confirmed Snowden may be planning to travel through Moscow as a transit passenger en route to another destination.” -- (Writing by Steve Gutterman; Editing by Alison Williams)Years in the future when someone’s great-great grandchild wants to know how America became an overnight borderless state, the answer will be, it went down when millions were reading a spy novel called Edward Snowden.
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