Edward Snowden makes 'moral' case for presidential pardon

Re:Edward Snowden makes 'moral' case for presidential pardon by aluhut on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @08:07AM (#12487347)

I really hope he'll be able to leave Russia one day but if I were him, I wouldn't return to the US. Too many people with weird ideas in their heads.

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Re:Edward Snowden makes 'moral' case for presidential pardon by pc86 on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @10:41AM (#12488645)

Not a trait confined to the United States by any stretch.

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Re:Edward Snowden makes 'moral' case for presidential pardon by avn2109 on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @10:51AM (#12488755)

The difference is that Russian state security is protecting him from deportation/abduction/assassination (while also surveilling him) to make sure they get to keep sticking their finger in America's eye.

If he leaves the Eastern bloc you can bet that the boys in Fort Meade will make contingency plans to sabotage his brakes/get him on trumped-up charges for something else a la Assange/otherwise ruin his day.

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Re:Edward Snowden makes 'moral' case for presidential pardon by MichaelMoser123 on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @11:42PM (#12494112)

>The difference is that Russian state security is protecting him from deportation

that's a double edged sword; if the Russian leaders decide some day that they want to improve relations with the US by extraditing him then they might just do it.

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Re:Edward Snowden makes 'moral' case for presidential pardon by pm90 on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @10:47AM (#12488713)

That's true. I guess what the OP meant is that trait + being known in the US is what puts Snowden at greater risk in the US.

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