President Obama Comments On NSA Whistle-Blower Snowden

Obama Says He Won't Be 'Scrambling Jets To Get To A 29-Year-Old Hacker' To Get Edward Snowden Extradited To The U.S. -- Daily Mail

* NSA leaker Edward Snowden remains in the transit area of Moscow airport after leaving Hong Kong on Sunday
* U.S. demanded Russia extradites him immediately but Putin refused

President Obama has said he won't engage in any 'wheeling, dealing and trading' to get NSA leaker Edward Snowden extradited from Russia to the United States.

'I'm not going to be scrambling jets to get to a 29-year-old hacker,' the president said of the whistleblower during his trip to Dakar, Senegal on Thursday.

Snowden, who is actually 30, fled to Hong Kong last month ahead of leaking details about an NSA surveillance program. He is now in the transit area of Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow.

Despite the U.S. urging Russia to extradite him immediately, President Vladimir Putin refused, saying there is no extradition treaty with the U.S., and Snowden has not committed any crimes in his country.

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