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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."
(Score: 2) by morgauxo on Thursday March 05 2015, @03:24PM
BTW, I wasn't saying he has a personality disorder because he wants to come home. Sure, I get that. I can't believe that any rational person would believe he has a chance of ever getting out of prison if he does though. Well.. maybe he will be released when he is old and sick but that hardly counts. I think he is being very irational and suspect that means that he is motivated by a desire for attention.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 05 2015, @07:33PM
> I think he is being very irational and suspect that means that he is motivated by a desire for attention.
Great, you are one of those dicks.
It is not irrational to expect that if the US makes a public commitment not to charge him under the espionage act, that he won't be charged under the espionage act. Or did you not even bother to RTFA before deciding he's an irrational attention whore?