Attorney General Eric Holder said that the United States “was willing to discuss how the criminal case against Edward Snowden would be handled, but only if Mr. Snowden pleaded guilty first,” the New York Times reports.
“Mr. Holder, speaking at a question-and-answer event at the University of Virginia, did not specify the guilty pleas the Justice Department would expect before it would open talks with Mr. Snowden’s lawyers. And the attorney general reiterated that the United States was not willing to offer clemency to Mr. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who has leaked documents that American officials have said threaten national security.”

