Snowden Retained Expert in Espionage Act Defense

Report: Snowden Retained Lawyer, Explored Return To America

Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who provided journalists a trove of classified documents, retained a well-known Washington defense lawyer last summer in hopes of reaching a plea deal with federal prosecutors that would allow him to return to the United States and spare him significant prison time.

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