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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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Edward Snowden’s message to Guardian readers | The Edward Snowden story – Video

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Edward Snowden #39;s message to Guardian readers | The Edward Snowden story
Guardian defence and intelligence correspondent Ewen MacAskill reads out a message to Guardian readers at a members screening of Citizenfour in London. Subscribe here ...

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Edward Snowden leaks did the marketing for GCHQ in its spy recruitment drive – Video

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Edward Snowden leaks did the marketing for GCHQ in its spy recruitment drive
The final of the UK Cyber Security Challenge which took place on the HMS Belfast in central London on 12 March, 2015. The Challenge is organised by GCHQ in partnership with experts from the...

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US Reportedly Threatened to Withhold Intelligence If Germany Gave Snowden Asylum – Video

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US Reportedly Threatened to Withhold Intelligence If Germany Gave Snowden Asylum
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Let’s Give Edward Snowden the Same Deal General Petraeus …

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General David H. Petraeus and Edward Snowden (Laura Poitras/Praxis Films)

General David Petraeus has agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling classified material and will serve no jail time for his actions. Lets give the same deal to Edward Snowden.

True, their crimes are different: Petraeus gave classified info to his biographer and girlfriend, Paula Broadwell. Snowden gave classified info to the American people.

Theres another difference: as The Washington Post reported, Petraeus initially lied to FBI investigatorshe told them he had never provided Broadwell with classified information. That was in an interview at CIA headquarters. Snowden in contrast told the truth about what he did, and why he did it. That was in an interview in Laura Poitrass Oscar-winning film Citizenfour.

And theres one more big difference: Snowden has done a lot more to defend Americans freedom than Petraeus ever did. In fact you might say Petraeus made America weaker as US commander in the Iraq war starting in 2007, a war that created more enemies for the US.

Petraeuss deal, as The New York Times noted, allows him to focus on his lucrative post-government career as a worldwide speaker on national security issues. A similar deal for Snowden would probably make him a worldwide speaker on national security issues, but without the lucrative element.

I'm not the first person to make this suggestion: Jesselyn Radack wrote about it in Foreign Policy (and she credits Peter Maass in The Intercept).

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And while were giving Snowden the same deal that Petraeus got, lets release Stephen Kim, whos serving thirteen months in prison for talking to a Fox News reporter about a single classified report on North Korea. Lets apologize to, and compensate, former CIA agent John Kiriakou, who served almost two years in federal prison from 2013 to 2015 for disclosing the name of a covert CIA officer to a freelance reportera name that was not published. While were at it, lets punish the torturers, not the people who leaked information about torture.

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