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Traitor? Hero? Robot.

NSA leaker Edward Snowden has been using a $16,000 flat-screen on wheels, dubbed the “Snowbot,” to “visit” the Big Apple and beyond — and the feds aren’t happy about it.

“I’d love to see him come back to the US and take his medicine,” Robert Litt, general consul for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, told New York Magazine, which details Snowden’s robotic escapades in its latest issue.

Snowden and his lawyer, Ben Wizner of the ACLU, describe how the whistleblower has enjoyed being a ’bot about town, attending openings at the Whitney Museum, accepting awards at the Tribeca Film Festival and addressing a class at Columbia University.

Snowden manipulates the Snowbot’s movements from a keyboard in Moscow, where he was granted asylum in 2013.

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