Barack Obama: Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden: Snowden's whereabouts will be kept secret for security reasons, said Snowden's lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, making it even harder to keep track of the former NSA systems analyst, who has been holed up at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport since his arrival from Hong Kong on June 23, according to CBC. The White House insisted Snowden isn't a whistleblower or dissident and said the move to grant him asylum undermines Russia's record of co-operation with the U.S. Spokesman Jay Carney said that the White House is re-evaluating whether a planned fall summit with U.S. President Barack Obama and Putin should still go ahead. 'The law is winning' U.S. National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden left the transit zone of a Moscow airport and officially entered Russia Thursday after authorities granted him asylum for a year, a move that suggests the Kremlin isn't shying away from further conflict with the United States. The U.S. has demanded that Russia send Snowden back to the U.S. to face prosecution for espionage over his leaks that revealed widespread surveillance of citizens' internet use and email communications, but Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed the request. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.