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Barrett Brown, Edward Snowden and the Abuses of the National Security State – Video

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Barrett Brown, Edward Snowden and the Abuses of the National Security State
A look into the abuses of the national security state, the calls for a plea deal to be made with Edward Snowden, and our upcoming interview with Barrett Brown... This clip from the Majority...

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Snowden’s Legal Team Pushing for His Return to America

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Marco Garcia / APSnowden giving a speech via video broadcast from Moscow last month.

Nearly two years after American intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden arrived inMoscow, his international legal team is hard atwork trying tosecure his return tothe U.S., his main Russian lawyer said Tuesday.

When asked if Snowden hoped eventually toreturn toAmerica, lawyer Anatoly Kucherena replied, "Of course," RIA Novosti reported.

"He [Snowden] thinks that he has achance togo back, andwe are doing everything possible tomake that happen," Kucherena explained incomments carried bythe Interfax news agency.

Snowden faces espionage charges inhis home country, inpart forhis exposure ofthe U.S. National Security Agency's mass surveillance ofAmerican citizens. He has been living inRussia since June 2013, having arrived shortly after his first major intelligence leak tojournalists. He was granted temporary asylum inAugust 2013.

Snowden has ateam ofRussian andAmerican lawyers, andis studying Russian tobetter adapt tolife inthe country, Kucherena said ata presentation ofhis new book, "Time ofthe Octopus." RIA Novosti described thebook as awork offiction based onSnowden's life. It is thefirst volume inan anticipated trilogy.

Kucherena also complained that he andSnowden have grown accustomed tobeing tailed atall times byunknown pursuers, RIA Novosti reported. He claimed that atone point he was forced tojump intoa different car while commuting through thecity inorder toconfuse five different vehicles that were following him atonce.

"We are constantly being followed. I sometimes don't know what route totake back home," he said incomments carried byRIA Novosti. "I honestly don't know who they are. Maybe they're journalists. I don't want toaccuse anyone."

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CRIME: Julian Assange goes to High Court to try to block extradition to Sweden: arrival – Video

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CRIME: Julian Assange goes to High Court to try to block extradition to Sweden: arrival
ENGLAND: London: High Court: EXT Various shots of Julian Assange (Wikileaks Founder) along through scrum of press photographers and into High Court / SECOND CAMERA showing Assange arrival...

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Assange likely to remain in embassy pending U.S. Wikileaks …

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WASHINGTON Thu Mar 19, 2015 4:04pm EDT

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures during a news conference at the Ecuadorian embassy in central London August 18, 2014.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is likely to remain at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London where he has taken refuge as long as U.S. authorities pursue a criminal investigation of his anti-secrecy group, one of his lawyers said.

Speculation rose that he might leave the embassy after Swedish authorities last week offered to question him there over allegations of sexual misconduct, dropping their insistence that he go to Stockholm for questioning about a 2010 incident.

He refused to return to Sweden, arguing that the Swedes would send him on to the United States to face possible trial. Assange, 43, denies the allegations, which are not related to WikiLeaks' publication of U.S. military and diplomatic documents five years ago.

Michael Ratner, a U.S. lawyer who represents Assange and WikiLeaks, said if Assange left the embassy, where he has been holed up for just over 1,000 days, he was likely to be arrested by British authorities and risked being extradited to America.

"Even were the Swedish case to be disposed of, the U.K. would arrest Assange upon leaving the embassy for claimed violations of bail conditions or something similar," Ratner told Reuters. Washington would almost certainly seek his extradition, he said.

Ratner said a recent federal court ruling disclosed that the FBI and U.S. Justice Department were conducting a "multi-subject investigation" of WikiLeaks and he said it had been going on for "at least five years."

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