It’s a sensational claim: unnamed US intelligence sources have told NBC News that Russia may extradite Edward Snowden to “curry favour” with US President Donald Trump. The leak comes in the week that Trump’s national security adviser, Michael Flynn, was forced to resign over links with Russia. Snowden, who has been living in exile in Moscow since 2013, thinks the revelation vindicates him. “Finally: irrefutable evidence that I never co-operated with Russian intel. No country trades away spies, as the rest would fear they’re next,” he said on Twitter.

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