{"id":144149,"date":"2015-03-04T21:32:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T21:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=144149"},"modified":"2015-03-04T21:32:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T21:32:43","slug":"snowden-working-exhaustively-us-secure-terms-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/snowden-working-exhaustively-us-secure-terms-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowden \u2018working exhaustively\u2019 with US to secure terms of trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whistleblower Edward Snowden says he has been working with the US government since he fled the country two years ago to secure the terms of a fair trial should he decide to return to America, but says that at the moment proceedings are not on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI&#8217;ve been working exhaustively with the government now since I left to try to find terms of a trial,\u201d<\/em> he said Wednesday during a live question and answer session organized by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression.<\/p>\n<p>However, the former NSA contractor said that because the US government is not at the moment willing to offer him a fair trial, he has no plans to return in the near future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/237789-snowden-talks-us-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whistleblower Edward Snowden says he has been working with the US government since he fled the country two years ago to secure the terms of a fair trial should he decide to return to America, but says that at the moment proceedings are not on the horizon. \u201cI&#8217;ve been working exhaustively with the government now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-144149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}