Edward Snowden to give evidence to EU parliament, says MEP.

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4. Steps will be taken to prevent a drone attack!

As per the final paragraph from the OP's link below, the organizers and/or Snowden did not feel it safe to have this evidence provided "live" or real-time. Now why would that be? They could always have him go temporarily to a broadcast location away from wherever he's living. Except . . . is there some rogue country out there which could possibly launch a drone at him "real-time"? If anyone has any other explanation of the dangers of a real-time broadcast, feel free to jump right in and share same on this thread!

The LIBE committee would most likely want to seek questions on what role other European information services have played in gathering data for the NSA, as well as whether servers and data networks in the EU were used as part of the process.

Albrecht claims Snowden had expressed an initial interest via his lawyers in July, and that recent communications had firmed that up. In October, Green party MEP Christian Ströbele travelled to Moscow to meet Snowden in person.

Sources within the European parliament considered it likely that committee members would vote in favour of a Snowden hearing, with the only vocal opposition represented by British Conservative MEPs. Since the Tories are no longer part of the European People's party alliance of centre-right parties, however, one MEP described their reluctance as "not crucial".

Since a real-time video testimony could allow Snowden's location to be pinpointed, the committee would send questions to the US whistleblower and then play back pre-recorded answers in front of the parliament.