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Re:Edward Snowden makes 'moral' case for presidential pardon by zeveb on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @11:18AM (#12489005)
It would weaken the incentives against leaking national-security information. Of course, that assumes one cares about national security; if one doesn't, then that's irrelevant.

Given that the U.S. — whatever its faults and flaws — is the only guarantor of international order, though, a weakened U.S. is sure to lead to more international conflict.

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Re:Edward Snowden makes 'moral' case for presidential pardon by zmanian on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @11:32AM (#12489139)
The US govt has already weakened these incentives because of the decision not to prosecute Petraeus.

The US govt should not have strong incentives against revealing widespread human rights abuse like full-take surveillance of entire countries.

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Re:Edward Snowden makes 'moral' case for presidential pardon by abfan1127 on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @11:35AM (#12489176)
national security? guarantor of international order? Half of the world's conflicts are due to US intervention. Hell, we're giving weapons and training to both sides in some of them. Maybe we could use weaker "national security"...
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