any alleged crimes but in his online chat snowden said that wouldnt matter anyway 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 said truth is coming and it cannot be stopped one person that wants it to stop however is snowdens father lonnie the elder snowden defended his sons integrity in an interview with fox news monday but pleaded with his son to not leak any more information especially anything that could be considered treasonous despite surfacing online for the more than 90minute question and answer session monday snowden remains in hiding in hong kong abc news greg krieg abby d phillip and james gordon meek contributed to this report