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Title    Edward Snowden Claims to Have Been in Contact with President Obama’s White House
Date    Sunday June 04 2017, @05:27PM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the keeping-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/06/04/038256

Phoenix666 writes:

Edward Snowden said that from contacts he has had with those in the White House and in President Obama's orbit, "we've come to understand that [Obama] was personally wounded as a result of these disclosures," which prompted Snowden to seek asylum outside the country.

[...] Snowden also addressed the notion of President Obama pardoning him. Based on communications he had with Obama's White House and those in the former president's orbit, Snowden realized he would not receive a pardon because the information Snowden leaked significantly damaged Obama's legacy.

[...] It had long been speculated, leading up to Obama's final hours in office, that he would grant Snowden a 11th hour pardon.

Snowden, however, disputed this notion saying, "I don't think it was a likely case. I'm not even sure it was a possible case, because the president himself was the one most personally embarrassed by these disclosures."

"[Obama] campaigned in 2007...on the platform of saying he would end exactly this kind of warrantless mass surveillance," Snowden continued. "In secret, instead of ending this programs, he entrenched them and expanded them. He made their reach greater, he made their use more common, he normalized what had been an unlawful and unpopular program of the George Bush administration and made it a new American tradition."

Will Obama's legacy come to be, as Snowden seems to suggest, that he normalized police state surveillance?


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  1. "Phoenix666" - https://soylentnews.org/~Phoenix666/
  2. "Snowden realized he would not receive a pardon because the information Snowden leaked significantly damaged Obama's legacy" - http://ntknetwork.com/snowden-claims-to-have-been-in-contact-with-president-obamas-white-house/
  3. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=20515

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