Live! I'm not a spy for China: Edward Snowden

June 18, 2013 00:19

NSA leaker Edward Snowden scoffed Monday at the notion he's a spy for China, saying that he would be living like royalty if he were. "If I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now," a writer who identified himself as Snowden said in an online question-and-answer session hosted by The Guardian newspaper.

The Guardian says Snowden was taking questions "with the help of Glenn Greenwald' but did not explain what role Greenwald, a reporter who broke the story on NSA phone surveillance, played in the session. Snowden, 29, called speculation that he might give secrets to China in exchange for asylum "a predictable smear ... intended to distract from the issue of U.S. government misconduct."

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