US NSA debates amnesty for Edward Snowden

December 16, 2013

The person running a U.S. National Security Agency task force to assess the damage of the leaks by Edward Snowden told a TV network that granting him amnesty is “worth having a conversation about.”The NSA may be willing to do a deal with Snowden as reports suggest that the agency is not clear yet as to how much information its former contractor was able to collect from classified government computers.But the director of the NSA, General Keith Alexander, told CBS TV news show 60 Minutes that people have to be held accountable for their actions.Snowden, who has been granted temporary asylum by Russia, has disclosed through newspapers since June that the NSA was collecting bulk telephone records from Verizon besides having access in real-time to content on the servers of Internet companies, which the Internet companies have denied. The NSA is also said to be tapping into communications links between Yahoo and Google data centers, besides spying on a number of leaders of countries.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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