WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he is certain former U.S. national security consultant Edward Snowden has not been grilled by Russian intelligence.
Assange told Britain's Fairfax Media his organization has had someone with the fugitive Snowden every day for nearly two months and there have been no debriefings by Russian security agencies.
"Since Hong Kong we have had someone physically by his side the entire time," Assange said. "We have had someone with him for 54 days," reports UPI News.
Snowden's jump from Hong Kong to Moscow, where he received temporary asylum, raised alarm in the United States that he was spilling secrets of the National Security Agency's sophisticated metadata surveillance programs to the Federal Security Service, the successor to the KGB.
Assange said WikiLeaks jumped into the Snowden situation out of an obligation he said the media in general had to support whistle-blowers by keeping their identities confidential, or publicly supporting them if they are unmasked.
"There is a moral obligation, and in order to maximize the amount of important information coming to the public, you have to make the source feel comfortable with that," Assange told Fairfax, which is owned by The Age.
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| Truth is a Crime Interesting, everywhere around the world people celebrate Edward Snowden for telling the truth about the1984 Big Brother Surveillance State . . . . everywhere except in the White House and Congress where truth is made a crime. |
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Protesters carry portraits of Edward Snowden during a demonstration against secret monitoring programmes PRISM, TEMPORA, INDECT and showing solidarity with whistleblowers Edward Snowden in front of Berlin’s Brandenburg gate July 27, 2013. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski |
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