Edward Snowden has taken $1.2m in speaking fees in exile, US filing says
Whistleblower Edward Snowden has earned more than $1.2m in speaking fees since he leaked confidential US material to outlets including the Guardian and went into exile in Moscow, according to a filing by the US justice department in court in Massachusetts.
The federal government is seeking to strip the former National Security Agency contractor, whom Donald Trump last week suggested he may pardon, of profits earned since his disclosures of US surveillance programs in June 2013.
As well as speaking fees, Snowden released a book, Permanent Record, in September 2019. His right to an undisclosed advance on the book has not been challenged by the US government, Politico reported, but it does want to seize its profits.
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