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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: 3, Informative) by hemocyanin on Tuesday November 22 2016, @04:53AM

    by hemocyanin (186) on Tuesday November 22 2016, @04:53AM (#431063) Journal

    The TPP is apparently dead in the water, so that's pretty good.

    Full Disclosure: I voted Stein, but I'm happy as a clam to see that Trump has managed to gut the GOP and the DNC.

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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday November 22 2016, @04:37PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Tuesday November 22 2016, @04:37PM (#431315) Journal

    Also grateful for the TPP apparently dying.
    Need more of this to happen to 'trade': give power back to the people... corporations have too much as it is.

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