Obama: 'Snowden not a patriot'
Speaking about changes to US surveillance laws Mr Obama was asked if he thought Edward Snowden was a patriot. He said that as the former NSA worker was facing charges and was not a patriot:
Edward Snowden's father to visit him in Russia
The father of Edward Snowden, the fugitive former US spy agency contractor, has received a Russian visa and will travel there to see his son "very soon," the family's lawyer said on Sunday.
Attorney Bruce Fein said in a television appearance that he and Lon Snowden were sceptical about President Barack Obama's pledge to limit government surveillance programs, and they remain doubtful that Edward Snowden would receive a fair trial in the United States.
"We have visas. We have a date, which we won't disclose right now because of the frenzy" over the affair, Mr Fein told the ABC News program This Week, on which they both appeared.
They will travel to Russia "very soon," he said.
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