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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, @07:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @07:18PM (#431422)

    but his rhetoric was nice and he was charismatic and represented change.

    You should never base your voting decisions on rhetoric, charisma, or feelings that a candidate represents change. If people had looked at his voting record, meager though it was, they would have seen that he was a corporate authoritarian liar.

    The two choices were absolutely despicable

    And what has the country learned from all this? Ah, yes: Continue voting for the lesser evil, which was what brought us this election in the first place. I hope most voters suffer excruciatingly painful deaths.