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Demeter

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6. Snowden asks political asylum in Switzerland

Fri Mar 6, 2015, 09:24 PM

Mar 2015

The former CIA agent and NSA leaker made a public appeal for asylum in Switzerland saying that sees this country as a great political option because it has a history of neutrality...

BAD MOVE, ED! THE SWISS ARE MORE THAN WILLING TO KNIFE SOMEBODY; THEY ARE UNDER TREMENDOUS PRESSURE FROM THE NWO AND BANKSTERS...

Security Agency (NSA) leaker Edward Snowden, who has been living in Russia since mid-2013, on Friday made a public appeal for asylum in Switzerland, where he said he once worked under diplomatic cover for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

"I would love to return to Switzerland, some of my favourite memories are from Geneva. It's a wonderful place," he told a Moscow-Geneva videoconference. "I do think Switzerland would be a sort of great political option because it has a history of neutrality."

US prosecutors accuse Snowden of leaking information on US National Security Agency (NSA) secret surveillance programs to mainstream media.

In 2013, he was granted a temporary asylum in Russia after spending more than a month in the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport.

In August 2014, as the asylum expired, Snowden received a three-year residency permit.

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