Russia granted temporary asylum to Edward Joseph Snowden , an American computer specialist, who worked
for the CIA and the NSA and leaked
details of several top-secret United States and British government mass
surveillance programs to the press.
He left the United States prior to the publication of his disclosures to Hong Kong. Mean time,
United States federal prosecutors charged
Snowden with espionage and theft of government property. He later moved to Russia where he was given temporary asylum and moved to undisclosed location
