Lawyer says Snowden ‘fears for his life’
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Edward Snowden’s Russian lawyer said yesterday that the fugitive US intelligence leaker has feared for his life since reading of explicit threats against him by unnamed Pentagon officials.
“There are real threats to his life out there that actually do exist,” S Anatoly Kucherena told Russia’s state-run Vesti 24 rolling news channel. “These statements call for physical reprisal against Edward Snowden.”
The former National Security Agency contractor is wanted by US authorities on treason charges for disclosing details of a vast Washington intelligence operation that monitored millions of phone calls and emails across the world.
Snowden received temporary asylum in Russia in August. The 30-year-old has remained in hiding but is believed to be living in the Moscow area and learning Russian. Kucherena said recently that Snowden has also been working as an IT adviser for a major local website.
The lawyer appeared to be referring to an article posted by US online website BuzzFeed entitled “American Spies Want Edward Snowden Dead.”
It quoted a Pentagon official saying: “I would love to put a bullet in his head.”
“In a world where I would not be restricted from killing an American, I personally would go and kill him myself,” a current NSA analyst was further quoted as saying.
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