Are there any people not in favor of pardoning Snowden here? It seems like most of the people I encounter who aren't on his side either don't fully understand the situation or think the story is so ridiculous some conspiracy is going on.<p>Everyone is so gung-ho on getting rid of political insiders, exposing the wrong doings of the government, and yet we blacklist someone who could be a bannerman for that cause.
It's never going to happen, or at least, not anytime soon. We live in a country that has its intelligence agencies "Losing" the evidence of their torturing people for years, and really, that's the least of their crimes.
The thing with IGs (inspector generals) though is that they are also like HR--they serve to protect the government as an entity rather than the agents, just like HR serves the company, not the employee.