Edward Snowden has written to the German government expressing his willingness to testify about American spy surveillance if his asylum “situation” can be resolved without his extradition to the United States.
Click here to view Edward Snowden's letter.
Hans-Christian Stroebele, a Green MP, published the letter after meeting with the former National Security and Central Intelligence Agency contractor at a secret location in Moscow on Thursday.
The veteran MP, who is a member of the German parliamentary committee that oversees the country’s intelligence agencies, said the fugitive NSA operative had told him he would be ready to testify to the US Congress to shed light on "possibly serious offences".
"He has always emphasised, also to my question whether he is ready to give information before the German parliament in Germany... that first he would prefer to present the facts in front of the US Congress," he said.
In an appeal for support from Germany, including a thinly veiled plea for asylum, Mr Snowden’s letter called on the international community to stop America extraditing him on charges of espionage for leaking US spying secrets.
"I have faced a severe and sustained campaign of persecution," he wrote.
"I am confident that with the support of the international community, the government of the US will abandon this harmful behaviour." Read on and comment » | Bruno Waterfield, and agencies | Friday, Novermber 01, 2013
