The father of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has proposed a deal to federal authorities that he claims would likely lead to his son’s voluntary return to the United States to face espionage charges, CNN reported Friday.
In a letter adddressed to Attorney General Eric Holder, Bruce Fein, an attorney for Lonnie Snowden, demands that the leaker remain free prior to trial, not be subject to a gag order and and that the trial be held in a place of the former government contractor’s choosing.
Failure to fulfill those requests, Fein wrote, will result in the dismissal of the prosecution.
“With these written representations and guarantee, Mr. Snowden is reasonably confident that his son could be persuaded to surrender voluntarily to the jurisdiction of the United States to face trial,” Fein wrote in the letter.
Read the letter here.
