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April 18, 2014 06:36 pm GMT
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Why Snowden Pushed Putin on the Spying Question
It seems Edward Snowden had an ulterior motive when he appeared on live TV to ask Russian President Vladimir Putin whether he spied on millions of Russians.
Snowden's questions gave Putin a chance to claim that his country is not as evil as its historic enemy, the United States, but also forced Putin to go on the record in front of millions of Russians. And that's exactly what Snowden wanted, he wrote in a Guardian op-ed on Friday.
"If we are to test the truth of officials' claims, we must first give them an opportunity to make those claims," Snowden wrote in the op-ed. Read more...
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