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Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden

posted by n1 on Tuesday November 22 2016, @02:54AM   Printer-friendly
from the no-and-no-means-no dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

A campaign to pardon NSA leaker Edward Snowden, launched in combination with a fawning Oliver Stone film about him, hasn't made any headway. The request spurred the entire membership of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, 13 Republicans and 9 Democrats, to send a letter to President Barack Obama urging against a pardon. "He is a criminal," they stated flatly.

Obama weighed in on the matter on Friday. During his European tour, he was interviewed by Der Spiegel—the largest newspaper in Germany, a country where Snowden is particularly popular. After discussing a wide range of issues, he was asked: Are you going to pardon Edward Snowden?

Obama replied: "I can't pardon somebody who hasn't gone before a court and presented themselves, so that's not something that I would comment on at this point."

Will the NSA's spying and Snowden's actions come to define Obama's legacy?

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday November 22 2016, @03:17AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Tuesday November 22 2016, @03:17AM (#431011) Homepage

    I voted for Obama's first term. Of course, I was also a pro-Israel liberal Democrat back then.

    Even 5 years ago if you had asked me if I would ever, or have ever, voted Republican; my answer would have been a resounding, "Hell no!"

    When Obama came up for reelection, I voted for Johnson. When Hillary came up for election, I voted Trump.

    " Ethanol, Trump is just the 'hope and change' candidate for the Right, nothing will really change. You know that, right?"

    A vote for Trump is a vote for the world to burn. Prep the nukes.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @03:23AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @03:23AM (#431018)

    Were you in Michael Moore's movie?

    • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday November 22 2016, @03:28AM

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Tuesday November 22 2016, @03:28AM (#431024) Homepage

      No, I was considered to be, but my comment about "Jews and Arabs needing to be nuked from the face of the Earth" was a liability to their operation.

  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Tuesday November 22 2016, @03:14PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Tuesday November 22 2016, @03:14PM (#431250) Homepage Journal

    a resounding, "Hell no!"

    Since you voted for Trump, shouldn't that be "Heil no" [washingtonpost.com]?

    --
    mcgrewbooks.com mcgrew.info nooze.org

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @05:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @05:32PM (#431352)

    Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up!

    Er, oops [time.com].