{"id":100738,"date":"2013-12-23T15:03:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T15:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/snowden-may-help-germany-probe-nsa\/"},"modified":"2013-12-23T15:03:16","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T15:03:16","slug":"snowden-may-help-germany-probe-nsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/snowden-may-help-germany-probe-nsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowden may help Germany probe NSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>American whistleblower Edward J. Snowden has said he will help Germany investigate US National Security Agency spying if Berlin grants him political asylum. <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a letter to the publication German Stern, the former NSA contractor wrote: \u00c5\u201cI have a great respect for Germany.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He doubted the ability of US Congress to implement any reforms, following a report by an expert panel tasked with reviewing NSA global surveillance activities released by the White House earlier this week. The Secret Service Committee, Snowden wrote, is praising the intelligence services rather than keeping them in check.<\/p>\n<p>Snowden currently lives in Russia, where he was granted a one-year asylum in August. He first disclosed details of NSA spying programs in June. The whistleblower is now facing espionage charges in the United States. <\/p>\n<p>Last week Snowden sent a similar open letter to Brazil, offering his help with \u00c5\u201cinvestigations into suspected crimes against Brazilian citizens.\u201d But he noted that the US government will continue to limit his \u00c5\u201cability to speak out until a country grants me permanent political asylum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Snowden reiterated the message in an email exchange with the Brazilian Globo TV channel, saying that he would like to move to Brazil if he was permitted by its government. He also called Brazil &#8220;one of the most interesting and vibrant democracies in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian foreign ministry said that it can only consider such a request for asylum once it receives an official application.<\/p>\n<p>Snowden\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s leaks showed that the US had spied on state leaders, including Brazilian and German leaders, causing diplomatic scandals.<\/p>\n<p>ARA\/ARA<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/12\/23\/341515\/edward-snowden-germany-nsa\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Snowden may help Germany probe NSA\">Press TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American whistleblower Edward J. Snowden has said he will help Germany investigate US National Security Agency spying if Berlin grants him political asylum. In a letter to the publication German Stern, the former NSA contractor wrote: \u00c5\u201cI have a great respect for Germany.\u201d He doubted the ability of US Congress to implement any reforms, following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-100738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}