Edward Snowden wants to return to the states.
Anatoly Kucherena, the Russian lawyer of the fugitive National Security Agency whistleblower, said Tuesday he is working with American and German lawyers to help Snowden return to the U.S.
“I won’t keep it secret that he … wants to return back home. And we are doing everything possible now to solve this issue. There is a group of U.S. lawyers, there is also a group of German lawyers and I’m dealing with it on the Russian side,” Kucherena said at a news conference discussing his book on Snowden, according to Reuters.
Snowden leaked details of the U.S. government’s mass surveillance programs in June 2013. After the Justice Department charged him with violating the Espionage Act and theft of government property, he left the country.
Snowden, who is seen as both a hero and a traitor, now lives in Russia, where he was first granted one-year temporary asylum and then a three-year residency permit.
