Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who leaked details of the government's PRISM surveillance program, has been granted temporary asylum in Russia and has left Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport for the first time in over a month, reports The Wall Street Journal . Snowden's lawyer says that the temporary asylum will last for one year and allow Snowden to live freely in the country and he will be eligible to renew it for further one-year periods if he so chooses. The BBC confirms the news, also citing statements from Snowden's lawyer Anatoly Kucherena. "I already escorted him out of the airport into a taxi," Snowden's lawyer told the WSJ, but declined to say where he was heading.
This comes after weeks of speculation and posturing about...
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