Picture released by Human Rights Watch shows US National Security Agency (NSA) fugitive leaker Edward Snowden during a meeting with rights activists at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport Friday. (Photo: Tanya Lokshina AFP/Getty Images)

When Snowden’s new Russian lawyer asked him why he had remained in the airport’s transit hotel for so long, Snowden responded that “he didn’t know what to do” . . .

It’s difficult not to identify with this courageous young man who has, apparently, been wearing the same clothes for a solid month.

Here’s a clip from today’s spiegel.de interview.

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