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Snowden Reportedly in Talks to Return to US to Face Trial

posted by n1 on Wednesday March 04 2015, @03:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the there's-no-place-like-home dept.

Hugh Pickens writes:

The Globe and Mail reports that Edward Snowden's Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena says the fugitive former US spy agency contractor who leaked details of the government’s mass surveillance programs was working with American and German lawyers to return home. “I won’t keep it secret that he … wants to return back home. And we are doing everything possible now to solve this issue. There is a group of U.S. lawyers, there is also a group of German lawyers and I’m dealing with it on the Russian side.” Kucherena added that Snowden is ready to return to the States, but on the condition that he is given a guarantee of a legal and impartial trial. The lawyer said Snowden had so far only received a guarantee from the US Attorney General that he will not face the death penalty. Kucherena says that Snowden is able to travel outside Russia since he has a three-year Russian residency permit, but "I suspect that as soon as he leaves Russia, he will be taken to the US embassy."

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Gaaark on Wednesday March 04 2015, @06:30PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Wednesday March 04 2015, @06:30PM (#153188) Journal

    I think i'd set up a 'kill switch' (can't think of the correct term i am looking for):

    If i don't get a fair trial and i am kept away from a computer for too long, there is an automatic emailing of unreleased documents...

    ...that way, if i am Guantonamoed (sp?), i can at least get some satisfaction knowing i will have f'd the people who are f'ing me.

    I think i'd stay where i was: how can he get a fair trial when so much of what will be in the trial will be under 'National Security' guidelines that can't be seen by the public at large.
    I think i'd rather be snowd-in in Russia (yes, i know... my humour sucks).

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  • (Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Thursday March 05 2015, @12:58AM

    by TheGratefulNet (659) on Thursday March 05 2015, @12:58AM (#153323)

    kill switch (or I think you mean 'dead mans switch') would be the right kind of thinking, but he'd have to go all 'james bond' to really have a safety net. sort of an inverted supervillian (which would be a superhero, I guess).

    you could then call him...

    (wait for it)

    snow-finger!

    "do you expect me to talk, snow-finger?"
    (etc)

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