Snowden Wants To Help German Probe, Talk to Congress

A German lawmaker says Edward Snowden wants to assist Germany in the probe into the spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel and talk to Congress about it.

Snowden had late on Thursday met German Green party lawmaker Hans-Christian Stroebele at an undisclosed location in Moscow to discuss his revelations that Washington for years monitored Merkel’s mobile phone, which has caused an uproar in Europe.

On his return to Germany, Stroebele published a letter from Snowden and said the American was ready to testify to the US Congress to shed light on “possibly serious offences…

…He said first up he would prefer to lay the facts on the table in front of the US Congress, in front of a committee of the US Congress and explain,” he said in English.

“Mr Snowden didn’t appear to me as anti-American or an enemy of America or some such, but quite the opposite.”

By: Cheston Catalano

Cheston Catalano is a Kentucky-based journalist whose work has been featured in the Chattanooga Times Free Press and the Clarksville Leaf Chronicle. He is a long-time contributor to Liberaland.