Edward Snowden Vindicated

[F2d5thCav]

I'm always going to side with more freedom, rather than less.

More transparency, rather than less.

Pardon Snowden.

I doubt you will find anyone on this site that has an issue with transparency or more freedom.

But pardon?  Hell no.  My suggestion would be a few expended rounds and the time of a firing squad.

Yes, that is harsh.  But allow me to illustrate something by comparison.

Remember the "Pentagon Papers" ?  That was a major reveal -- HUGE.

The guys who did that didn't run off to Russia or China.  They stayed in the USA and faced the music.  And, in the end, they were vindicated.

Snowjob took off to China and Russia with God knows what kind of classified information on his thumb drive.  Now all compromised because one guy decided he knew better than the entire USA.  No.  No pardon.  If we pardon him, we can kiss goodbye ever having classified information again.

Something interesting about the Pentagon Papers.  The journalists who got all the credit ... would have never pulled off their story except a fellow who was the document librarian for a large defense contracting firm in California.  He just happened to be one of the men who sank a Japanese aircraft carrier at Midway.

Cheers