Snowden wants to see live Rio

Edward Snowden ( a former employee of the U.S. National Security Agency ) intends to move to permanent residence in Brazil.

According to the Brazilian edition of " Folha de Sao Paulo" , he appealed to the authorities of Brazil requesting political asylum. According to the newspaper , the former agent offered to help this country in the investigation of the NSA in the country. He said in the letter , at the disposal of the newspaper , which will help Brazil only if he received political asylum .

Earlier this year, " The Guardian " published part E. Snowden sent her documents. They, in particular, stated that the NSA has received information from search engines Google and Yahoo and the data thus collected accounts of hundreds of millions of users. In addition, they contained information that the center of the UK government communications program uses " Tempora " to gain access to the data of telephone conversations and electronic communications.

Revelations of E. Snowden caused a diplomatic scandal when it was revealed that the NSA tapped telephone conversations of 35 heads of the various states , including German Chancellor Angela Merkel .

In November, NSA Director Keith Alexander said E. Snowden conveyed in the media up to 200 thousand classified documents. In August E.Snouden received temporary asylum in Russia for one year .

Meanwhile, Euronews television viewers recognized whistleblower of U.S. intelligence Edward Snowden " Man of the Year 2014 " , according to the channel's website. - 17D-