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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhitehouse Petition to Pardon Edward Snowden:
http://wh.gov/liZnREdward Snowden is a national hero and should be immediately issued a a full, free, and absolute pardon for any crimes he has committed or may have committed related to blowing the whistle on secret NSA surveillance programs.
Created: Jun 09, 2013
Link---> http://wh.gov/liZnR
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This petition is clearly going to meet the 100,000 signature threshold.
He probably won't get pardoned, but the point is to send a message.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Whoever started the petition should have said 'IMMUNITY' not 'pardon'.
GReedDiamond
(5,318 posts)...pardoned Dick Nixon, even though, unfortunately, he was not convicted of anything.
So there is that...
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)Pre-emptive Presidential Pardons
Can you be pardoned for a crime before you're ever charged?
one_voice
(20,043 posts)I thought he didn't do anything wrong.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)How true.
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)That he broke the law is not in question.
The question is whether his actions were justified.
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)He could end up in jail for the rest of his life.
In my opinion what he did was not wrong because he exposed massive government abuses of power.
That's why he should be pardoned.
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)And damn near funny.
Savannahmann
(3,891 posts)That .033% of the more than 300 million people in the nation are supporters, and willing to go on record. I think that's why they have databases, to track that percentage of dissidents.
railsback
(1,881 posts)Wow. Way to show the superior intellect of the Left.