Possible Deal with NSA Exposer — US Attorney General Attracts Snowden

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Is this the beginning of a big negotiation revolving around the return of a man who disclosed the spying activities of the NSA and other Western secret services?

Possible Deal with NSA Exposer — US Attorney General Attracts Snowden
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany
By Johannes Kuhn
Translated By Daniel Eck
24 January 2014
Edited by Phillip Shannon

Eric Holder is not just the U.S. attorney general — he is also familiar with the nuances of political rhetoric. He told MSNBC that pardoning whistle-blower Edward Snowden would be going too far. Snowden had “caused harm to our national security and I think he has to be held accountable for his actions.”

Yet Holder is willing to make a compromise. His department is more than ready to discuss reducing Snowden’s sentence with his lawyers, as long as Snowden comes back to the U.S. This is the footnote that leaves people speculating: Is this the beginning of a big negotiation revolving around the return of a man who disclosed the spying activities of the NSA and other Western secret services?

Recently, Snowden himself suggested that he would be happy to leave his involuntary exile in Moscow. He wrote in a chat on the website freesnowden.is that ‘"Returning to the U.S., I think, is the best resolution for the government, the public and myself.”

However, due to the current whistle-blower protection laws, Snowden’s return is not possible. Through a shortcoming in the law, “national security contractors like (Snowden)” were not covered.


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Obama has used the Espionage Act of 1917 to prosecute more whistle-blowers than all previous presidents combined.

[bemildred]

1. There won't be any deals yet. This is negotiating. nt