Good News: ACLU Coordinating Ed Snowden's Defense

[kpete]

ACLU Coordinating Ed Snowden's Defense
from the good-news dept



While much in the press is focusing on the supposed squabble between Ed Snowden, his father and his father's lawyer, Glenn Greenwald points out the actual important news hidden as a random aside in some of the news reports: the ACLU is now coordinating Ed Snowden's legal defense in the US. The Huffington Post article, notes:

The Wall Street Journal reported that the ACLU is helping coordinate Snowden’s legal defense in the U.S.
The full WSJ article is behind a paywall, but it states:

The elder Mr. Snowden participated in the chat from the Washington, D.C., office of his attorney, Bruce Fein, and was connected to his son with the help of Ben Wizner, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, who is involved in coordinating Mr. Snowden's legal defense in the U.S.

As Greenwald notes, that's very good news. It also suggests that the claims that Snowden's legal efforts are somehow in the hands of Julian Assange are also not true.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130815/17545424195/aclu-coordinating-ed-snowdens-defense.shtml

[snooper2]

1. Cool, so is snowy coming home?

[elleng]

2. 'involved in coordinating'

[MADem]

3. But that is not what Ed, himself, says--he says "Pay no attention to the ramblings of my father."

He also said, "Pay no attention to the natterings of my father's lawyer, or his wife."

Ed debunked this with his Huffpo statement. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/15/edward-snowden-media-misled_n_3764560.html

This might be what DAD wants, but Sonny isn't on the same page.