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

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: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 04 2015, @10:51PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 04 2015, @10:51PM (#153275)

    I'll be there to punch him in the throat for selling us out on our foreign intelligence. You "ends justify the means" people might be ok with that, but some of us feel betrayed. Maybe I'd feel a little better towards him if he didn't sell us out, but that genie is out of the bottle.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 04 2015, @11:08PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 04 2015, @11:08PM (#153281)

    Are you going to machete his limbs and cauterize the wounds!!!!!???
    (Are you?)

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 04 2015, @11:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 04 2015, @11:58PM (#153300)

    Lol, just let that NSA cock slide in a little moar

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anal Pumpernickel on Wednesday March 04 2015, @11:58PM

    by Anal Pumpernickel (776) on Wednesday March 04 2015, @11:58PM (#153301)

    You "ends justify the means" people might be ok with that

    What? You're part of the "ends justify the means" group, not people who think that every person in the world has rights, and that we shouldn't violate them without a good reason and evidence. Mass surveillance is disgusting, foreign or not. That's not "the ends justify the means"; that's 'He was right in releasing all of these documents.' Both the ends and means were correct.

    but some of us feel betrayed.

    Warmongering fools who despise freedom, maybe.

    Maybe I'd feel a little better towards him

    "Maybe"? Just "maybe"? You would prefer the government continue violating the constitution in secrecy?

  • (Score: 2) by CirclesInSand on Thursday March 05 2015, @03:08AM

    by CirclesInSand (2899) on Thursday March 05 2015, @03:08AM (#153356)

    I'll be there to punch him in the throat for selling us out on our foreign intelligence.

    No one cares, Mrs. Feinstein; you punch like a girl anyway.

  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 05 2015, @03:11AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 05 2015, @03:11AM (#153357)

    I looked for the traditional "Sieg Heil" in your comment but I didn't see it.
    Don't they teach that on the very first day of Brown Shirt school?

    -- gewg_