Alleged NSA leaker Edward Snowden meets with human rights officials in a Moscow airport. (Tanya Lokshina/Human Rights Watch)
Edward Snowden Makes No-Leak Promise In Asylum Bid: Lawyer -- ABC News
Fugitive NSA leaker Edward Snowden today applied for asylum in Russia and, as a condition, agreed to stop harming the U.S., according to a Russian lawyer who is advising him, but that doesn't necessarily mean headline-grabbing stories about the U.S. government's vast foreign and domestic spying programs will stop.
The lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, told ABC News by phone that he met Snowden inside the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport on Tuesday to finalize the asylum application. Kucherena said Snowden called him for advice because he was unfamiliar with Russian law.
A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin said the president was aware Snowden had submitted an asylum application, but "does not have any reaction," saying the decision up to Russia's Federal Migration Service.
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My Comment: It takes about 3 months for an asylum bid request in Russia to be processed. My prediction .... they will give him asylum, and he will stay in Russia for a year or two. As for future leaks .... the Russians are not going to let him leak anything during this period of time .... and should he leak information through Glenn Greenwald at the Guardian and/or through anyone else .... they will arrest him and then quickly deport him to a country that will then deport him to the U.S..
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