<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareSharedContentClass" style="position: relative !important; "><div id="article" class="auto-hyphenated" style="-webkit-hyphens: auto; "><div class="page" style="font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify; "><h1 class="title" style="text-align: center; line-height: 1.25em; -webkit-hyphens: manual; "><font size="5">SNOWDEN OFFERS TO FIX <a href="http://HEALTHCARE.GOV">HEALTHCARE.GOV</a></font></h1><p style="font-size: 14px; "><img alt="snowden-healthcare-580.jpeg" width="580" height="415" class="reader-image-large" style="float: none; margin: auto auto 0.75em; max-width: 100%; display: block; " id="2813db18-8eba-4f9c-b741-bcb0a5d0dffb" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:4CCCB1DC-05DC-45D4-8741-CF5B036DE8F5@att.net"></p><p style="font-size: 16px; "><b>MOSCOW </b>—The N.S.A. leaker Edward Snowden today reached out to the United States government, offering to fix its troubled <a href="http://healthcare.gov">healthcare.gov</a> Web site in exchange for immunity from prosecution.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; ">Speaking from an undisclosed location in Russia, Mr. Snowden said he hacked the Web site over the weekend and thinks he is “pretty sure what the problem is.”</p><div style="font-size: 14px; "><p style="font-size: 16px; ">“Look, this thing was built terribly,” he said. “It’s a government Web site, O.K.?”</p><p style="font-size: 16px; ">Mr. Snowden said that if an immunity deal can be worked out, “I can get to work on this thing right away—I don’t need a password.”</p><p style="font-size: 16px; ">In addition to full immunity, Mr. Snowden said he is requesting that he be allowed to work from home.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; ">At the White House, President Obama offered a muted response to Mr. Snowden’s proposal: “Edward Snowden is a traitor who has compromised our national security. Having said that, if he knows why we keep getting those error messages, that could be a conversation.”</p><p><br></p></div></div></div></span><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareUserContentBottomClass" style="line-height: 14px !important; text-align: left !important; "></span></body></html>