Video: Snowden’s Father Urges Son Not to Accept a Deal with US Authorities
Photo Credit: Reuters By Alexander Bolton
Lon Snowden, the father of accused spy Edward Snowden, is urging his son not to take a deal with U.S. authorities to allow his return from Russia.
Snowden, appearing on ABC’s “This Week” with his attorney, said his son should fight espionage charges at a public trial.
“What I would like is for this to be vetted in open court for the American people to have all the facts,” he said. “What I have seen is much political theater.”
His attorney, Bruce Fein, said Snowden would be traveling to Moscow “very soon” to visit his son.
“We intend to visit with Edward and suggest criminal defense attorneys who have got experience in Espionage Act prosecutions,” Fein said, noting there have been only ten such prosecutions in the past century.
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Hayden labels Snowden a ‘defector’
By Caitlin Emma
Retired Gen. Michael Hayden, the former NSA and CIA director, classified Edward Snowden as a “defector” on Sunday, saying “traitor” was too narrowly defined by the Constitution.
“We used to have a word, for somebody who stole our secrets, who got the job to steal our secrets, and then he moved to a foreign country with those secrets and made them public. It wasn’t ‘whistleblower.’ It was ‘defector.’ And I actually think that’s a very good word for him,” Hayden said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
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