Snowden Wants To Come Home, Presumably Sick Of Russian Food

Two days before the release of the Oliver Stone movie Snowden, which is based after, you guessed it, Edward Snowden, the famous whistleblower made a direct appeal to President Obama asking to be pardoned and saying that he “loves [his] country.” Three years after the NSA contractor exposed the US government’s broad surveillance apparatus, Snowden remains in self-imposed exile in Russia, a country not exactly known for the openness and transparency Snowden champions. He also started making some enemies there, calling out Russia’s “Big Brother” measures and its crackdown on civil society. Snowden claims he still works for the US, they just “don’t know it.” Snowden’s only hope is that Obama pardons him during the lame-duck session, something Bernie Sanders is calling for.

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