The US will not engage in “wheeling and dealing” to secure the return of Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency leaker, President Barack Obama said yesterday, as new details of US surveillance activities emerged.
Adopting a more conciliatory tone than other officials have used this week, Mr Obama urged Russia to hand over Mr Snowden but said that the US still had “a whole lot of business that we do with China and Russia” that should not be jeopardised by one extradition case.
Mr Snowden, the 30-year-old former NSA contractor who has been the source of leaked documents on phone and email surveillance programmes, is believed to be in the transit facilities at Moscow airport after having arrived from Hong Kong on Sunday.
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