"If I become the interior minister, that’s definitely happening. ... I think it’s dangerous to just give him asylum because asylum does not give you the same protections as citizenship. ... It is much better for the U.S. government to have Snowden in Iceland or Germany than in Russia… because Snowden, he is his own man, but it is uncomfortable to have him there and it’s dangerous for him any which way you look at it because there is a propaganda war (between the Kremlin and Washington), and I can’t imagine it’s good for anyone in his position to be used in a propaganda war."
Birgitta Jónsdóttir, alltingsledamot för Piratpartiet, säger i Forbes att hon alltjämt förespråkar att visselblåsaren Edward Snowden ska få isländskt medborgarskap.
