THE MOSCOW TIMES: Edward Snowden is expected to fly from Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport to Cuba today at 2:05 p.m., Interfax reported, citing one of its sources.
Snowden, a 30-year-old former U.S. intelligence contractor, is wanted by the U.S. for revealing a highly classified surveillance program, but it appears that calls for Russia to extradite him back to his country of birth have fallen on deaf ears.
Earlier today National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said that the White House expects Russia to consider "all options available" to extradite Edward Snowden.
"Given our intensified cooperation after the Boston marathon bombings and our history of working with Russia on law enforcement matters — including returning numerous high-level criminals back to Russia at the request of the Russian government — we expect the Russian government to look at all options available to expel Mr. Snowden back to the U.S. to face justice for the crimes with which he is charged," the Associated Press quoted Hayden as saying. » | RIA Novosti | Material from The Moscow Times is included in this report | Monday, June 24, 2013
