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Edward Snowden in 2013. Edward Snowden's residency in Russia is part of the aftermath from his global surveillance disclosures. On June 23, 2013, Snowden flew from Hong Kong to Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport. Observing that his U.S. passport had been canceled, Russian authorities restricted him to the airport terminal.
Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is an American former NSA intelligence contractor and whistleblower [4] who leaked classified documents revealing the existence of global surveillance programs. He became a naturalized Russian citizen in 2022.
While she stood firm on Snowden, Gabbard backtracked on other matters, including her suggestion in 2022 that U.S. and NATO forces had provoked Russia into its war with Ukraine.
Reactions to Snowden's disclosures among members of Congress initially were largely negative. [22] Speaker of the House John Boehner [23] and senators Dianne Feinstein [24] and Bill Nelson [25] called Snowden a traitor, and several senators and representatives joined them in calling for Snowden's arrest and prosecution. [24] [26] [27]
Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor, has been living in Russia for nearly a decade and was granted permanent residency in 2020.
Deep state whistleblower Edward Snowden may be getting a new lease on life.
Gabbard is an unconventional pick to oversee and coordinate the country's 18 intelligence agencies, given her past comments sympathetic to Russia, a meeting she held with now-deposed Syrian President Bashar Assad and her previous support for government leaker Edward Snowden.
In April 2015, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange claimed to having deliberately leaked the false information about Snowden being on the plane to the U.S. as part of several "special measures" to distract secret services. In response, the Bolivian ambassador to Russia demanded that Assange apologize for putting their president's life at risk.