Trump: ‘A lot of people’ think Edward Snowden ‘not being treated fairly’
Edward Snowden,Cybersecurity,Donald Trump
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President Trump polled his aides on Thursday about whether he should let anti-surveillance whistleblower and leaker Edward Snowden return to the US from Russia without going to prison, saying he was open to it.
“There are a lot of people that think that he is not being treated fairly. I mean, I hear that,” Trump told The Post in an exclusive interview in the Oval Office, before soliciting views from his staff.
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