Snowden Kini Bekerja di Website Raksasa di Moskow
Snowden Gets Tech Support Job for Large Moscow Website
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
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PEMBOCOR rahasia Dinas Keamanan Nasional AS (NSA) Edward Snowden adalah bekerja di sebuah situs web besar di Moskow dan telah mulai bekerja.
Peran baru bagi buronan paling dicari berusia 30 tahun ini, dikelilingi oleh kerahasiaan untuk ´alasan keamanan´, klaimnya.
Namun pengacaranya membantah bahwa Snowden akan menjadi pegawai negeri.
Berita tentang peran barunya datang ketika foto yang yang dimaksud untuk menunjukkan Snowden berada di perahu wisata di Sungai Moskow seperti dilansir oleh Life News, yang dikutip Mail Online.
Mantan kontraktor NSA berada di belakang serangkaian kegiatan intelijen besar pada AS dan Inggris yang menyadap telepon dan internet.
Pengacara Rusia-nya, Anatoly Kucherena, yang menyangkal pekerjaan baru kliennya sebagai pegawai negeri, katanya: ´Edward mulai bekerja pada November."
"Dia akan memberikan dukungan untuk situs besar Rusia," katanya, menolak menyebut nama ´majikan baru´ atau memberikan rincian perannya.
Snowden melarikan diri ke Rusia pada bulan Juni, upaya penangkapan pun digelar dan diekstradisi ke Amerika Serikat di mana ia menghadapi tuduhan spionase.
Presiden Vladimir Putin menolak permintaan Amerika untuk mengirim Snowden pulang untuk menghadapi tuduhan termasuk spionase, dan suaka sementara ia diberikan pada awal Agustus yang dapat diperpanjang setiap tahun.
Snowden pun harus bertahan di Moskow di tengah upaya penangkapan.
Rusia menyiratkan ada risiko ia bisa diculik atau dibunuh oleh CIA.
Sumber-sumber di Barat mengatakan sebenarnya dia sedang bersembunyi di Rusia, yang menunjukkan bahwa ia berada di bawah kendali layanan rahasia Moskow.
Sebuah gambar yang dimaksudkan menunjukkan Snowden dirilis hari Kamis oleh sebuah situs Rusia yang memiliki hubungan dekat dengan dinas rahasia.
Dia mengenakan topi, tanpa kacamata, bersandar di pagar perahu wisata di Sungai Moskow. Di latar belakang adalah gedung Katedral Moskow.
Website yang sama awal bulan ini mempublikasikan foto Snowden mendorong troli belanja, kemudian dibenarkan keasliannya oleh pengacaranya dari Rusia, Anatoly Kucherena.
Foto yang ´membuktikan bahwa mantan agen AS baik tinggal secara permanen di Moskow atau dapat berkunjung secara teratur,´ klaim situs tersebut.
NSA WHISTLEBLOWER Edward Snowden is taking a job at a large Moscow website and starts work today.
The 30-year-old American fugitive´s new role is surrounded by secrecy for ´security reasons´, it was claimed.
But his lawyer has denied that Snowden will be a state employee.
News of his new role comes as a picture purporting to show Snowden on a tour boat on the Moscow river was shown by Life News.
The former National Security Agency contractor is behind a series of major intelligence links on US and British snooping of telephones and the internet.
His Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, who denied the post was as a state employee, said: ´Edward starts work in November.´
´He will provide support for a large Russian site,´ he said, refusing to name the new employer or give details of his role.
Snowden fled to Russia in June, hearing arrest and extradition to the US where he faces espionage charges.
President Vladimir Putin has rejected American pleas to send Snowden home to face charges including espionage, and the temporary asylum he was granted in early August can be extended annually.
Snowden has been spotted only a handful of times in Moscow.
The Russians imply there is a risk he could be kidnapped or assassinated by the CIA.
Western sources say the fact he is being concealed in Russia shows he is under the control of the Moscow secret services.
A picture purporting to show Snowden was released on Thursday by a Russian site with close ties to the secret services.
He was wearing a cap, without glasses, leaning on the rail of a tour boat on the Moscow River. In the background is Moscow´s Christ the Savior Cathedral.
The same website earlier this month published a photograph of Snowden pushing a shopping trolley, later confirmed as authentic by his Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena.
The photograph ´proves that the former US agent either lives permanently in Moscow or visits regularly,´ claimed the site.
