US Secretary of State John Kerry - Remarks to NBC News on Edward Snowden lyrics

For a supposedly smart guy, that's a pretty dumb answer, frankly. If Mr. Snowden wants to come back to the United States today, we'll have him on a flight today. We'd be delighted for him to come back. He should come back. That's what a patriot would do. A patriot would not run away and look for refuge in Russia or Cuba or some other country. A patriot would stand up in the United States and make his case to the American people. He can come home but he's a fugitive from justice which is why he is not being permitted to fly around the world. Snowden stole information and did great damage to the United States. The fact is if he cares so much about America and he believes in America, he should trust in the American system of justice. But to be hiding in Russia, an authoritarian country, and to have just admitted he was really just trying to get to Cuba — what does that tell you? I think he's confused. I think it's very sad. Snowden is a coward [and a] traitor. There are many patriots. You can go back to the Pentagon Papers with Dan Ellsberg and others who stood and went to the court system of America and made their case. What he's done is expose for terrorists a lot of mechanisms which now affect operational security of those terrorists and make it harder for the United States to break up plots, harder to protect our nation. He should man up and come back to the United States.