Lawyer: Snowden to stay in Moscow airport for now

July 24, 2013 at 2:30p.m.

MOSCOW (AP) - A lawyer advising National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden says his asylum status has not been resolved and that he is going to stay at the Moscow airport for now. Anatoly Kucherena, who was visiting the American at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport today, said that migration officials are still looking at this asylum request and that this process had been drawn out.