{"id":64217,"date":"2019-09-17T07:55:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T06:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=64217"},"modified":"2019-09-17T07:55:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T06:55:56","slug":"snowden-wants-to-return-to-us-if-he-is-tried-fairly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/snowden-wants-to-return-to-us-if-he-is-tried-fairly\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowden wants to return to US if he is tried fairly"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden said Tuesday and he wants to return to the U.S. if a fair trial is guaranteed.<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;I want to go back to the U.S., that&#8217;s the ultimate goal,\u201d the former National Security Agency contractor and whistle-blower told CBS. \u201cIf I&#8217;m going to spend the rest of my life in prison, my only demand is that is a fair trial, but the American government doesn&#8217;t guarantee it because it won&#8217;t allow me to benefit from the public interest defense,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His book, Permanent Record, will be published Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Snowden, who leaked thousands of documents detailing a long-term surveillance program by the U.S. government, was granted asylum by Russia in 2013 after he was charged with espionage.<\/p>\n<p>His residence permit in Russia was extended until 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden said Tuesday and he wants to return to the U.S. if a fair trial is guaranteed. &#8220;I want to go back to the U.S., that&#8217;s the ultimate goal,\u201d the former National Security Agency contractor and whistle-blower told CBS. \u201cIf I&#8217;m going to spend the rest of my life in prison, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":64218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,80,63,17,1,118],"tags":[53939,70982],"class_list":["post-64217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-america","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-general","category-hot","tag-edward-snowden","tag-national-security-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}