Brazil must seriously consider Snowden asylum request

Headline Title: Brazil must seriously consider Snowden asylum request 17 December 2013 Brazil 's government should give full consideration to Edward Snowden's claim for asylum in the country, Amnesty International said today after the US whistleblower offered to help a Brazilian spying probe and requested asylum. Snowden said today in an "open letter to the Brazilian people", published on Facebook and in a Brazilian newspaper, that he wished to assist a government investigation into intelligence monitoring by his former employer the National Security Agency. The…

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