Employ-Ed:
Snowden gets job at major Russian website
Former
US spy agency contractor, Edward Snowden, is set to start working for
an Internet site in Russia, according to his Russian lawyer. The name
of the website hasn't been disclosed for 'security reasons.
The
American view.
For the information of the 'Free Patriot' it was probably not 'Russia' that gave Ed a job, but a Russian company. The Soviet Union fell over 20 years ago.
Russia
Mocks Obama, Gives Snowden Tech Support Job
31
October, 2013
Just
weeks after Russia granted former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden
asylum, his lawyer Anatoly Kucherena says his client was offered a
job as technical support for a Russian website.
Snowden
was made a pariah in the U.S. after he revealed information
uncovering a mass surveillance scheme at the National Security Agency
which included mined phone and internet data from thousands of people
and exposed programs to the media.
Snowden
faces espionage and theft of government property charges in the U.S.
and Obama has since given Russia the cold shoulder including his
cancellation of a visit to Moscow in September that was believed to
be “Snowden-related”.
Russian
President Vladimir Putin has rejected U.S. demands to send Snowden
home for trial, and his asylum was granted in August and can be
renewed annually.
Since
the revelations, media has treated Snowden as a both a whistleblower
and a security threat, saying that while his leaks ‘outed’ the
NSA’s scandalous spying, they also harmed national security.
Kucherena
informed CNN Thursday that Snowden will start his job Friday. While
Kucherena would not give the name of Snowden’s new employer for
security reasons, he did say that his client would perform
maintenance for a major Russian website, according to RIA Novosti
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