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No chance of clemency for Edward Snowden - White House

30 May 2014, 09:49 -- The White House says that its position on Edward Snowden has not changed after the NSA leaker told NBC News in an exclusive interview that he wants to return to the United States. 'Look, let's be clear, clemency is not on the table,' White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said. Snowden in a recent interview had said that he wants to return to the US, where he is facing charges of unauthorized leak of classified documents.

'We are of the firm belief that the transgressions that he's been charged with are very serious, that they've created negative consequences for our national security and our capacity to protect the United States and the American people and our allies, and that those are very serious offenses,' Carney said.

'I think we can say quite clearly that clemency is not being considered, but beyond that, this is a matter for the Department of Justice,' he said when asked about clemency to Snowden, who is currently in Russia.

Snowden in a recent interview with NBC News expressed the intention to return to the US, where he is facing charges on illegal leak of classified National Security Agency (NSA) documents on mass data surveillance.

Later in the day, the National Security Agency (NSA) released email exchange with Snowden. The NSA informed the Senate Intelligence Committee that it has found no evidence that Snowden 'expressed concerns or complaints, in email or any other form, about NSA's intelligence activities to anyone in a position of authority or oversight' and that it continues to search for any such communications. A day earlier, Secretary of State John Kerry had branded Snowden as a traitor and a coward.

Source: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_05_30/No-chance- of-clemency-for-Edward-Snowden-White-House-1054/