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Snowden’s Hong Kong hideout an easy reach for US government agents

Edward Snowden’s decision to flee to Hong Kong as he prepared to expose the US government’s secret surveillance programmes may not save him from prosecution due to an extradition treaty in force since 1998.

A 29-year-old former CIA employee, Snowden has identified himself as the person who gave The Guardian and The Washington Post classified documents about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) obtained data from US telecom and Internet companies.

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