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spy games Edward Snowden’s Dad Thinks He Can Get Him to Come Home 
  
 The father of NSA leaker and Russian airport king Edward Snowden believes he's figured out this asylum-limbo situation. Lonnie Snowden took to the Today show this morning to offer what he thinks are acceptable terms for Edward's return to the U.S., which he's also sent in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder: He believes his son will come back to face the consequences if he's promised no pretrial detainment or gag order and the ability to select the location of the proceedings. While that's not typically how things work, the negotiations are also complicated by the fact that Lonnie hasn't spoken to his son since April. 
  
 "I love him. I would like to have the opportunity to communicate with him," Lonnie told NBC. 
  
 He's also not so sure about these WikiLeaks folks Edward has been hanging around with. "I don't want to put him in peril, but I am concerned about those who surround him," said Lonnie. "I think WikiLeaks, if you've looked at past history, you know, their focus isn't necessarily the Constitution of the United States. It's simply to release as much information as possible." ||||| Edward Snowden's father defend his wanted son on Friday, and even suggested that his son could return voluntarily to the United States, if certain (highly unlikely) conditions are met. In an interview with NBC News today, Lonnie Snowden says he wrote a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder saying that if the Justice Department agreed to make some particular promises about how they handled Edward's prosecution, then his son would "probably" return to the face trial. We wouldn't hold our breath on that score. 
  
 Among the conditions that the elder Snowden asked for: To allow his son to choose the venue for trial; that he not be subjected to a gag order; and that he be allowed to remain free until the trial begins. So he's basically asking that his son be allowed to keep doing the very things that he's wanted for in the first place: Talking to the press and running from police custody. 
  
 Even if the government did agree to those terms (which they never would), it doesn't really matter because Edward Snowden hasn't done so himself. Father and son haven't spoken since April, so he's not really speaking on Edward's behalf. We don't really know what it would take get him to come back to America, but he's obviously smart enough to know that he'll never get it. The government wants him behind bars, and if they ever get their hands on him, that's exactly where he'll stay. 
  
 Snowden Sr. also tried to defend his son from charges that he betrayed America or committed treason. While admitting that Edward broke the law, his dad says he's not a traitor to his country and added that he actually believes that Julian Assange and his WikiLeaks lawyers might be manipulating him. Lonnie Snowden said, "I am concerned about those who surround him. I think WikiLeaks, if you've looked at past history, you know, their focus isn't necessarily the Constitution of the United States. It's simply to release as much information as possible." Of course, the U.S. would love to get their hands on Assange too, 
  
 Check out a portion of the interview that appeared on Today this morning. 
  
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 / Updated By Eun Kyung Kim 
  
 The father of Edward Snowden acknowledged Friday that his son broke U.S. law, but maintained that he is not a traitor for releasing classified information about the government’s previously secret surveillance programs. 
  
 “At this point I don't feel that he's committed treason. He has in fact broken U.S. law, in a sense that he has released classified information,” Lonnie Snowden told NBC’s Michael Isikoff in an exclusive interview that aired on TODAY. “And if folks want to classify him as a traitor, in fact he has betrayed his government. But I don't believe that he's betrayed the people of the United States. “ 
  
 Snowden said he has told Attorney General Eric Holder through his lawyer that his son will probably return home if the Justice Department promises not to detain him before a trial nor subject him to a gag order. He also wants his son to choose where a trial would take place. 
  
 Edward Snowden’s current whereabouts are unknown. The former National Security Agency contractor is being sought for leaking top-secret documents that revealed the government’s widespread surveillance programs. 
  
 On Sunday, he reportedly flew to Moscow on his reported path to Ecuador, where officials in the South American nation have offered him asylum. 
  
 But on Thursday, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa described the case as a “complex situation” because Snowden must be physically in the country or inside an Ecuadorean embassy for his asylum application to be processed. 
  
 "For that to happen, a country would have to allow him to enter its territory, which has not come about yet," Correa said. “We don’t know it’ll be resolved.” 
  
 In a diplomatic slap to the United States, Correa also renounced a multimillion-dollar trade deal up for renewal between the two countries, saying any agreement would not be influenced by the Snowden case. 
  
 Earlier this week, U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, the New Jersey Democrat who heads the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, promised to block renewal of the pact if Snowden were to receive asylum. 
  
 "Our government will not reward countries for bad behavior," he said in a statement. 
  
 That prompted Ecuador’s Correa to renounce the trade deal as part of a “blackmail" scheme. 
  
 "Do not threaten us with removing the preferential tariffs. We unilaterally and irrevocably waive them,” he said. “You can keep them.” 
  
 Snowden has reportedly been getting help in his escape plan from WikiLeaks, whose founder, Julian Assange, has been sheltered in Ecuador’s London embassy for the past year. 
  
  
  
 Lonnie Snowden has not spoken to his son since April, but he fears that Edward may be manipulated by WikiLeaks handlers and would like to get in touch with him. 
  
 “I don't want to put him in peril, but I am concerned about those who surround him,” Lonnie Snowden said. “I think WikiLeaks, if you've looked at past history, you know, their focus isn't necessarily the Constitution of the United States. It's simply to release as much information as possible.” |||||
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Lonnie Snowden wants his son to come home, and he thinks he knows how to entice him to come. Snowden has sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder saying that he's fairly confident Edward would return to the US to face trial if the Justice Department guarantees he won't be detained before said trial, that he can choose the location of the trial, and that he won't be subject to a gag order, he tells Today. Of course, this is all coming just from the senior Snowden; he hasn't spoken to his son since April. "At this point, I don't feel that he's committed treason," Snowden tells Today. "He has betrayed his government. But I don't believe that he's betrayed the people of the United States." Over at Daily Intel, Joe Coscarelli doesn't have much confidence Snowden's plan to get his son back home will work; neither does Dashiell Bennet at the Atlantic Wire (Snowden wants his son to "be allowed to keep doing the very things that he's wanted for in the first place," he points out). Plus, Coscarelli writes, "While Lonnie's heart is clearly in the right place, his son is probably thinking something along the lines of, Please, Dad, not now!"