reaction to this that we can get from john killick executive director of the open rights group mr killick welcome to r.t. so what's your reaction to the announcement that snowden's whereabouts will remain undisclosed for now. while i guess he wants to have some privacy. something that everyone has been lacking a little bit perhaps feeling the lack of since his revelations i guess he needs time to recuperate think about what he's going to do next and think about you know whether he's got more than he wants to reveal i mean we had more revelations in the last week about the extent of united states surveillance he's been very careful with the documents it seems that he's gotten perhaps he just needs time to review what information he has in cases more to be said yes and if he's in high day can this really be regarded as an asylum. well i would hope it can be i mean he if he's you know he's lawyers and him have got to make a judgment about his safety i know that putin tried to put some informal conditions on his. asylum request by asking him not to campaign against the united states i don't t