{"id":23866,"date":"2013-08-16T14:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T19:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=23866"},"modified":"2013-08-16T14:00:26","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T19:00:26","slug":"snowden-says-media-is-misled-hero-or-villian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2013\/08\/16\/snowden-says-media-is-misled-hero-or-villian\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowden Says Media Is Misled: Hero Or Villian?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Edward Snowden Says Media Being Misled ‘About My Situation’<\/strong><\/h2>\n

NEW YORK \u2013- National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden wants to set the record straight after individuals associated with his father have, in his words, “misled” journalists into \u201cprinting false claims about my situation.\u201d
\nIn an emailed statement to The Huffington Post, Snowden said that neither his father Lon Snowden, his father\u2019s lawyer Bruce Fein, nor Fein’s wife and spokeswoman Mattie Fein \u201crepresent me in any way.\u201d
\n\u201cNone of them have been or are involved in my current situation, and this will not change in the future,\u201d Snowden said of his father and the Feins. \u201cI ask journalists to understand that they do not possess any special knowledge regarding my situation or future plans, and not to exploit the tragic vacuum of my father’s emotional compromise for the sake of tabloid news.\u201d
\nMattie Fein told The Wall Street Journal <\/a> on Thursday that Lon Snowden\u2019s legal team doesn\u2019t trust Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald, the journalist at the center of the NSA story<\/a>, or WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy organization that has advised Snowden in Russia. Fein also claimed Greenwald was trying to shop around an exclusive interview with Snowden for seven figures. Greenwald told the Journal Fein’s claim was “defamatory.”
\nSnowden said he’d like to correct the record regarding legal advice he\u2019s received.
\n\u201cI’ve been fortunate to have legal advice from an international team of some of the finest lawyers in the world, and to work with journalists whose integrity and courage are beyond question,\u201d Snowden said. \u201cThere is no conflict amongst myself and any of the individuals or organizations with whom I have been involved.\u201d
\nThe American Civil Liberties Union confirmed that the email received by The Huffington Post was from Snowden, who remains a fugitive in Russia after being granted temporary asylum<\/a>. The Wall Street Journal reported that the ACLU is helping coordinate Snowden\u2019s legal defense in the U.S.
\nSnowden\u2019s full statement to The Huffington Post is below:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"edwardsnoden01\"It has come to my attention that news organizations seeking information regarding my current situation have, due to the difficulty in contacting me directly, been misled by individuals associated with my father into printing false claims about my situation.I would like to correct the record: I’ve been fortunate to have legal advice from an international team of some of the finest lawyers in the world, and to work with journalists whose integrity and courage are beyond question. There is no conflict amongst myself and any of the individuals or organizations with whom I have been involved.
\nNeither my father, his lawyer Bruce Fein, nor his wife Mattie Fein represent me in any way. None of them have been or are involved in my current situation, and this will not change in the future. I ask journalists to understand that they do not possess any special knowledge regarding my situation or future plans, and not to exploit the tragic vacuum of my father’s emotional compromise for the sake of tabloid news.
\nThank you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Edward Snowden Says Media Being Misled ‘About My Situation’ NEW YORK \u2013- National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden wants to set the record straight after individuals associated with his father have, in his words, “misled” journalists into \u201cprinting false claims about my situation.\u201d In an emailed statement to The Huffington Post, Snowden said that neither his father Lon Snowden, his father\u2019s lawyer Bruce Fein, nor Fein’s wife and spokeswoman Mattie Fein \u201crepresent me in any way.\u201d \u201cNone of them have been or are involved in my current situation, and this<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}