I bet his heart sunk when he heard Donald Trump won the presidential election and now, his worse nightmare is about to come true as it is revealed Russia is considering sending Edward Snowden back to the United States as a sweetener to Donald Trump amid all the diplomatic row.
Donald Trump in the past has called Snowden a traitor to his country and wants him executed for treason. A Snowden handover is seen as an attempt by Russian President to gain favour with Trump, a senior US official with knowledge of sensitive Russian intelligence information told NBC News on Friday.
Former deputy national security adviser Juan Zarate has warned the Trump administration about receiving favours from Russia saying:
‘’For Russia, this would be a win-win. They've already extracted what they needed from Edward Snowden in terms of information and they've certainly used him to beat the United States over the head in terms of its surveillance and cyber activity', said Zarate.
‘’It would signal warmer relations and some desire for greater cooperation with the new administration, but it would also no doubt stoke controversies and cases in the US around the role of surveillance, the role of the US intelligence community, and the future of privacy and civil liberties in an American context.
'All of that would perhaps be music to the ears of Putin.’’
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