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6/26/13

PRISM SPy Program: Venezuela: Chavez successor praises Snowden, offers to consider asylum - by Alastair Jamieson and Peter Alexander

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has hailed NSA leaker Edward Snowden’s “courage” and offered to consider an asylum application.

Maduro, speaking in Haiti on Tuesday, said someone should “protect” Snowden, who is believed to be in a transit zone at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport.

The Obama administration insisted late Tuesday there was a “clear legal basis” for Russia to hand over the fugitive leaker.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed suggestions his country is helping Snowden as “ravings and rubbish.” Officials there say there is nothing they can do because Snowden has not formally crossed into Russian territory.

Read more: Chavez successor praises Snowden, offers to consider asylum - World News

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