It comes hours after Barack Obama decided to commute the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the US military whistleblower who leaked 700,000 documents to Wikileaks and was jailed for 35 years in 2013.
Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor who revealed the scale of its surveillance program, has lived in Russia since his revelations appeared in the Guardian.
Fifteen former staff members of the Church committee, the 1970s congressional investigation into illegal activity by the CIA and other intelligence agencies, recently urged Obama to end Snowden’s “untenable exile in Russia” before he leaves office.
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