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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @09:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @09:05AM (#431136)

    We saw what federal subsidizing did to once-affordable college tuition

    The problem with colleges and universities is not that the tuition is too high, but that a grand majority of them permit absolute losers to graduate because their standards of education are utterly pathetic. High tuition rates would be worth it if the quality of education was phenomenal, but you can only get that level of education from the best universities (as opposed to awful community colleges and other such degree mills), and even then only in certain majors. If someone's main goal is to make more money or open up more career opportunities rather than receiving an excellent education, they should be kicked out immediately for being toxic influences.