But, like Snowden, players can get help from the outside, represented in the game in the form of a cell phone call to “Uncle Putin,” who will drop one Soviet-era hydrogen bomb to shake Jake off the trail for a while|Getting caught by Jake earns the player a one-way ticket to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba}

Now Edward Snowden can hunt for information on Americans’ smartphones.

The National Security Agency leaker wanted by the U.S. government has been immortalized – in a digital sense, 부산출장안마 anyway – as the hero of a video-game app.

In “Snowden Run 3D” (MTS Freestyle), gamers play the former intelligence worker in three settings: NSA headquarters in Fort Meade, Md.; Hong Kong, where Snowden revealed himself as the source who leaked the intelligence agency’s program collecting phone records on Americans; and the Moscow airport Snowden left Thursday after being granted temporary asylum in Russia.

Much like the real Snowden saga – for now – there is no end to the game, and it goes on infinitely.

“This is exactly what is happening to Snowden, he keeps on running,” game author Michele Rocco Smeets told The Associated Press. “Will he get caught? Well, this is not like he can just click ‘again,’ like in this video game, and restart from the beginning. If he truly is caught by the American government, then he is in great, big problems.”

Players must collect USB sticks and laptops containing “sensitive information” all while avoiding the long arm of the law, whom Smeets refers to as Agent Jake. Getting caught by Jake earns the player a one-way ticket to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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The Department of Justice is keeping the charges against the suspect, Libyan militia leader Ahmed Abu Khattalah, under seal, but CBS News’ Margaret Brennan reports that the suspect has been living openly in Benghazi since the September, 2012 attack. Khattalah admitted to CBS News last fall that he was at the scene on the night of the attack, but denied a personal role in the violence. “I went to help four men who were trapped inside,” Boukhatala told CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer. When he arrived, though, the men were gone, according to the Islamist militant. At the time, Libya’s government had told CBS News that Boukhatala was a “prime suspect” in the attack on the U.S. offices, but asked about that accusation by Palmer, the militant smiled and said, “if that’s what the President is saying, then he should come to my house and arrest me.” But that’s something Libya’s government security forces wouldn’t have dared to do. Khattalah is the chief of a ferocious militia in Benghazi, the Abu Ubaidah Brigades – a sub-group of the larger Ansar al Shariah militia. Palmer reported that the militia — armed to the teeth with weapons looted from deposed dictator Muammar Qaddafi’s arsenals — acted at the time of the attack as both military and police in parts of Benghazi. The government’s security forces, the official police and army, are simply too weak to push them out. Khattalah told Palmer that the attackers were merely ordinary people armed with rocket-propelled grenades and added that he expected a fight should the government move to arrest Islamist militia members suspected in the attack. It remains unclear whether the U.S. has now asked Libyan authorities to arrest Khattalah or whether the FBI has identified the other suspects, pictured alongside Khattalah in a series of photos taken from the security cameras at the consulate. The other men are thought to be members of Khattalah’s militia. Neither the militia nor Khattalah have been specifically identified by the U.S. government as terrorists, according to Brennan. “The investigation is ongoing. It has been and remains, a top priority,” Justice Department spokesman Andrew C. Ames said Tuesday. However, the FBI has not made any arrests in the 11 months since the attack and the Obama Administration faces mounting pressure to take action. Last week, a small but vocal group of eight Republican congressmen sent a message to the newly-confirmed FBI Director James Comey, pressing him to take action. In the letter, initiated by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-U.T.), the legislators called the administration’s investigation thus far “unacceptable” and called for an “aggressive” investigation.”
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