Us Lawmaker Compares Leaker Snowden With Mahatma Gandhi

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Even as a miffed President Barack Obama cancelled talks next month with Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of the G-20 summit, a lawmaker of his party compared whistleblower Edward Snowden with Mahatma Gandhi, who fought for his values and beliefs.

Snowden, who was given asylum by Moscow for a year was appealing to a "higher law", Georgia Democratic House member John Lewis told The Guardian in an interview with published on Wednesday, according to Poltico, an influential Washington news site.

Asked if Snowden's leak was civil disobedience, Lewis said: "In keeping with the philosophy and the discipline of nonviolence. In keeping with the teaching of Henry David Thoreau and people like Gandhi and others, if you believe something that is not right, something is unjust, and you are willing to defy customs, traditions, bad laws, then you have a conscience. You have a right to defy those laws and be willing to pay the price," he was quoted as saying.

Russia last week gave asylum to Snowden, a former CIA contractor who had been holed up for weeks in the international transit zone of Moscow's airport after leaking details of several top-secret US and British government mass surveillance programmes.

Announcing the cancellation of Obama's Moscow visit ahead of the September 5-6 G-20 summit in St. Petersburg, a White House statement cited "Russia's disappointing decision to grant Edward Snowden temporary asylum" as a factor.
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"Some people say criminality or treason or whatever. He could say he was acting because he was appealing to a higher law. Many of us have some real, real, problems with how the government has been spying on people," Lewis said.[/color]

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