Bill Gertz, the veteran national security corrspondant, offers a piece in
the Washington Times on the Russian intelligence service and NSA Leaker Edward Snowden (seen in the above photo).
Russia's SVR intelligence service, successor to the KGB, is behind a
coordinated Moscow campaign to exploit the case of former National Security
Agency contractor Edward Snowden by fueling anti-U.S.
sentiment in Russia, according to U.S. officials.
State-controlled Russian media in recent days actively promoted an online
White House petition urging a presidential pardon for Mr. Snowden. Several news
websites posted links to the petition.
The media’s reporting and promoting of the petition were assessed by U.S.
officials to be part of a Russian government effort against the United States,
said officials familiar with intelligence reports.
The covert campaign is part of a major anti-U.S. propaganda and influence
program that has been largely ignored by the Obama administration. Instead, the
administration has sought to pretend that Russia and the United States are on a
path of greater cooperation and harmony under the administration's so-called
reset policy.
You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/3/inside-the-ring-russian-intel-and-edward-snowden/?page=all#pagebreak
