{"id":23420,"date":"2014-05-28T22:43:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T02:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=23420"},"modified":"2014-05-28T22:43:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T02:43:11","slug":"edward-snowden-says-the-u-s-stranded-him-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/edward-snowden\/edward-snowden-says-the-u-s-stranded-him-in-russia.php","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden Says The U.S. Stranded Him In Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    Edward Snowden said he is \"surprised\" he ended up in Russia    after leaking documents detailing the NSA's surveillance    programs last year.  <\/p>\n<p>    During an exclusive interview with NBC News' Brian    Williams that will air Wednesday night, Snowden blamed his    time in Russia on the State Department, saying he was stranded.  <\/p>\n<p>    \"The reality is I never intended to end up in Russia,\" Snowden    said. \"I had a flight booked to Cuba onwards to Latin America    and I was stopped because the United States government decided    to revoke my passport and trap me in Moscow Airport.\"  <\/p>\n<p>    \"So when people ask why are you in Russia, I say, 'Please ask    the State Department,'\" Snowden continued.  <\/p>\n<p>    Asked about Snowden's comments on Wednesday morning, Secretary    of State John Kerry said the infamous whistleblower needed to    \"man up\" and return to the United States.  <\/p>\n<p>    Below, more from the AP:  <\/p>\n<p>    WASHINGTON (AP)  Secretary of State John Kerry says National    Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden \"should man up and come    back to the United States.\"  <\/p>\n<p>    Kerry was asked about Snowden in a nationally broadcast    interview Wednesday in the wake of Snowden's interview earlier    with NBC News. In that session, Snowden said he never intended    to end up Russia, but was forced to go there because Washington    decided to \"revoke my passport.\"  <\/p>\n<p>    Asked about this on NBC \"Today\" show Wednesday, Kerry replied,    \"Well, for a supposedly smart guy, that's a pretty dumb    answer.\"  <\/p>\n<p>    Kerry said, quote, \"If Mr. Snowden wants to come back to the    United States, we'll have him on a flight today.\"  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Here is the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/05\/28\/edward-snowden-interview_n_5403117.html\" title=\"Edward Snowden Says The U.S. Stranded Him In Russia\">Edward Snowden Says The U.S. Stranded Him In Russia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Edward Snowden said he is \"surprised\" he ended up in Russia after leaking documents detailing the NSA's surveillance programs last year. During an exclusive interview with NBC News' Brian Williams that will air Wednesday night, Snowden blamed his time in Russia on the State Department, saying he was stranded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-snowden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}