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The former National Security Agency employee who leaked details of US spying is told he must return to the US to face trial. <\/p>\n
12:22, UK, Monday 03 August 2015 <\/p>\n
Snowden is living in Russia after leaking details of classified secrets <\/p>\n
President Obama has rejected calls to pardon Edward Snowden for revealing details of America's unlawful spying programme. <\/p>\n
A petition on the White House website declaring the former National Security Agency employee a national hero has gathered 167,955 signatures in two years. <\/p>\n
But Obama's advisor on Homeland Security and Counterterrorism has spoken-out to insist Snowden should return to the US from Russia to face a criminal trial for espionage. <\/p>\n
\"MrSnowden's dangerous decision to steal and disclose classified information had severe consequences for the security of our country and the people who work to protect it,\" said Lisa Monaco. <\/p>\n
\"He should come home to the United States and be judged by a jury of his peers, not hide behind the cover of an authoritarian regime. <\/p>\n
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