Federation Council Invites Snowden to Investigate Spying Claims
Source: Moscow Times
28 June 2013 | Issue 5157
RIA Novosti
Russia's parliament has extended an invitation to fugitive ex-CIA employee Edward Snowden to help investigate whether U.S. Internet firms provided information about Russian citizens to the U.S. government.
Snowden, a former contractor for the National Security Agency, is wanted by the U.S. for disclosing a top-secret surveillance program that allegedly targeted millions of Americans. He is reportedly in Moscow.
"We invite Edward Snowden to work with us and hope that as soon as he settles his legal status, he will collaborate with our working group and provide us with proof of U.S. intelligences agencies' access to the servers of Internet firms," Senator Ruslan Gattarov said Thursday, a day after Russia's upper house of parliament, the Federation Council, decided to set up a special working group to investigate Snowden's claims.
Gattarov, appointed to lead the group, told RIA-Novosti that it would incorporate legislators, diplomats, prosecutors and communications officials. Preliminary results of the investigation should be made public in October ...
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