The dad of NSA snitch Edward Snowden fears his wayward son is about to commit treason, as the turncoat computer whiz took to the Internet today to reveal his own worries about being rubbed out.
Anxious pop Lon Snowden told his son, via Fox News, to keep quiet before saying something that could endanger himself or the United States.
“I hope, I pray and I ask that you will not release any secrets that could constitute treason,” Lon Snowden said.
“I sense that you’re under much stress (from) what I’ve read recently, and that you not succumb to that stress … and make a bad decision.”
Edward Snowden has been hiding out in Hong Kong since dishing details earlier this month about his work as an NSA contractor.
Lon Snowden urged Edward to return to America and face his potential punishment here.
“I would like to see Ed come home and face this. I shared that with the government when I spoke with them. I love my son,” Lon Snowden told Fox.
The dad said he doesn’t want Edward to “cross that line and do something that constitutes treason, or they would like to see him disappear.”
In an online chat with The Guardian newspaper this morning, Edward Snowden said he could be the target of a US -ordered hit because of his NSA blabbing.
“All I can say right now is the US Government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me,” Snowden wrote. “Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.”
The 29-year-old computer whiz said much the NSA’s hacking efforts are aimed at companies and institutions from US-friendly nations. Those espionage actions put innocent lives at risk, he claimed.
“Not only that, when NSA makes a technical mistake during an exploitation operation, critical systems crash,” Snowden said.
“Congress hasn’t declared war on the countries – the majority of them are our allies – but without asking for public permission, NSA is running network operations against them that affect millions of innocent people. And for what? So we can have secret access to a computer in a country we’re not even fighting? ”
Snowden admitted he’s been reading his own news clippings. He was pleased with early media reports about his leaking, but didn’t appreciate all the attention heaped on pretty, dancer girlfriend Lindsay Mills.
“Initially I was very encouraged,” Snowden said. “Unfortunately, the mainstream media now seems far more interested in what I said when I was 17 or what my girlfriend looks like rather than, say, the largest program of suspicionless surveillance in human history.”
Snowden wrapped his snitching in the American flag and said any patriot would have done the same: “This country is worth dying for.”