Excerpt: "Former U.S. National Security Agency employee Edward Snowden is ready to return home if he is guaranteed a fair trial, his lawyer in Russia Anatoly Kucherena said Tuesday."



Edward Snowden. (photo: Guardian UK)

Snowden Willing to Return to US if Promised a Fair Trial

By teleSUR

ormer U.S. National Security Agency employee Edward Snowden is ready to return home if he is guaranteed a fair trial, his lawyer in Russia Anatoly Kucherena said Tuesday.

"Edward Snowden is ready to go there [to the United States]," said Kucherena.

The lawyer has said he received a letter from the U.S. attorney general promising that capital punishment would be off the table for Snowden should he return to the United States.

Snowden’s lawyer added that he and his client, currently residing in Russia, are under constant surveillance.

"We are always followed [by somebody]. I don't know which way I should choose to go back home," said Kucherena.

In June 2013, Snowden leaked thousands of documents that showed not only that the NSA spied on U.S. citizens, but also on foreign presidents, such as those of Germany, Mexico, and Brazil.