NSA Leaker Snowden Gets Russian Web Technology Job

In what might be regarded as having the fox guard the henhouse, a leading Russian website has hired fugitive secrets-leaker Edward Snowden to oversee its data protection.

Snowden’s lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, told Russian news service RIA Novosti that the former U.S. National Security Agency contractor starts his new job Friday.

Kucherena declined to identify the social media site where Snowden will be working, citing “security reasons.” Snowden’s Russian guardians have often expressed fear that U.S. intelligence operatives might snatch Snowden from his Russian refuge, if they can find him, and spirit him back to the United States to face espionage charges.

Snowden, 30, has stirred global outrage with his disclosures of massive NSA surveillance of phone calls, emails, text messages and other personal communications. In the nearly six months since he left his high-tech job with the NSA, he has released details of secret U.S. counterterrorism operations that swept up millions of domestic and foreign communications for “data mining.”

In recent days alone, U.S. ambassadors have been summoned to hear protests from foreign governments, and President Barack Obama has had to call offended allies including German Chancellor Angela Merkel to calm the diplomatic storms churned up by the intrusions.

This article appeared in print on page 2 of the November 1st, 2013 edition of Hamodia.