https://www.dekut.com/USA/guardian-snowden-wont-return-voluntarily-to-us-houston-chronicle/ WASHINGTON (AP) — NSA leaker Edward Snowden is defending his disclosure of top-secret U.S. spying programs in an online chat Monday with The Guardian and is attacking U.S. officials for calling him a traitor. The disclosures revealed the scope of the collections, which surprised many Americans and have sparked debate about how much privacy the government can take away in the name of national security. In answer to a question about charges made by Cheney and other U.S. officials that he might be spying for China, and trading information for asylum, Snowden wrote, "Ask yourself: if I were a Ch Read Moreinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now." Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:20:11 UTC en