The FBI planned to fly Edward Snowden's father to Moscow to encourage the National Security Agency leaker to come home to the United States, his father told The Washington Post. But Lon Snowden said he backed out, because it was not clear he would be able to speak to his son. Interactive: Snowden's options "I said, 'I want to be able to speak with my son. . . . Can you set up communications?' And it was, 'Well, we're not sure,' " the father told the newspaper Tuesday. "I said, 'Wait a minute, folks, I'm not going to sit on the tarmac to be an emotional tool for you.'"
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Edward Snowden acted out of patriotism, his father tells The Washington Post
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Report: Lon Snowden said he did not fly to Russia because he doubted he'd be able to speak to his son
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Lon Snowden wants his son to stay in Moscow for now
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He is 'not confident' his son would receive a fair trial in the U.S.
Edward Snowden, a former employee of a government contractor, leaked to the media that the @placeholder had secretly collected and stored millions of phone records from accounts in the United States.