BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government advised against calling former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden to Berlin as a witness in a parliamentary inquiry into U.S. spying, saying this would cause damage to relations with Washington.
The fugitive Snowden was granted asylum in Russia last year after exposing details of massive U.S. intelligence-gathering programmes at home and abroad. It is considered unlikely that he would set foot in any U.S.-allied country like Germany because of the risk of being arrested and extradited.