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Moscow, he could enjoy a safe life, free from the threats of a CIA rendition team dropping from the sky or extradition proceedings. He was now under the protection of Putin’s Russia. The press had a field day with the domestic surveillance documents that he gave them. As far as Snowden was concerned, as he told Gellman on December 21, 2013, in Moscow, “The mission’s already accomplished.”
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