“I didn’t take anything to Russia,” he said. Putin’s government asked him to hand over documents, Mr.
“I am not a spy” for the Kremlin, he added, “which is the real question.”Įven if Mr. “I have no relationship with the Russian government,” Mr.
He said he was alarmed that the Russian government was cracking down on freedom of the press, calling it “deeply unfair.” Snowden made the comments in an hourlong interview on Wednesday night with Brian Williams of NBC News in which he tried to justify his actions and explain why he had accepted refuge from President Vladimir V. Snowden said that he still considered himself to be an American patriot even after leaking thousands of classified documents, and that he was frustrated to be “stuck in a place” - Russia - that did so little to protect individual rights when he was trying to help protect American freedoms.
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