had to do was convince the rest of the country. It had been nearly a week since the Yediot’s “exposé”. It was Yoni Koren who passed on a request from Channel | television, our equivalent of the BBC. They were proposing that I appear with Nissim Mishal, the man who had interviewed me 10 years earlier, at the urging of

Snowden’s path to Russia had been prepared for him in advance. On September 3, 2013, Russia’s President Putin gave a lengthy interview on state-owned Channel | television in which he divulged that he personally had had advance knowledge of Snowden’s plan. “I will tell you something I have never said before,” Putin said