Time to Pardon Edward Snowden?

Three bipartisan legislations were introduced yesterday related to this.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;_nalexander&#x2F;status&#x2F;1312405442925154304" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;_nalexander&#x2F;status&#x2F;13124054429251...</a>

&gt; he fled immediately to Russia<p>He did not flee to Russia. He got stuck there on transit to Ecuador because his passport was allegedly cancelled. He came from Hong Kong. Read his book.

The reason he will never be pardoned has nothing to do with if his leaks were merited or not merited (they clearly were as the activities of the govt were proven illegal). Its because then you green light a govt leaker in critical programs you open pandoras box for govt secrets spilling out and you can lose control. Keeping employees&#x2F;contractors in fear that they will never stop chasing you is a good way to stop people from doing this.

Edward Snowden is an American patriot. He followed his conscience and acted in good faith to defend the constitutional rights of the American people.

You would need to convict him first.

Half way into that article it suddenly opened another window and loaded another seemingly unrelated article. A way to get more page imoressions?

Say Biden wins the election. I&#x27;m curious to see how his administration would handle this situation considering that Snowden revelations happened dead in the middle of Biden&#x27;s second vice-presidency and they had plenty of time to be considerate, and handle this situation appropriately.

This administration won&#x27;t do it, simply because Russia has more leverage over Snowden&#x27;s cultural influence while he&#x27;s unpardoned and in exile. The next administration won&#x27;t do it, because Biden was in Obama&#x27;s administration during Snowden&#x27;s original actions.<p>We need to examine the situation not from whether enough time has elapsed to make the wounds heal over, but from whether our government is ready to admit its past mistakes and learn from them.

If Assange isn&#x27;t being pardoned for the nonsensical &quot;crime&quot; of exposing war crimes by the US Government, there is no chance that Snowden will be pardoned. Snowden willingly stole state secrets whereas Assange only published.<p>Still, when you consider that Snowden is living in Russia, essentially free, and Assange is in a 3.5x2m cell, I don&#x27;t think Snowden has anything to worry about, except that the royalties from his book will be taken away....but he has his freedom.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;01&#x2F;919261319&#x2F;court-rules-edward-snowden-must-pay-more-than-5-million-from-memoir-and-speeches" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;01&#x2F;919261319&#x2F;court-rules-edward-...</a>

Snowden didn’t just expose national wiretapping. He also exposed international spying capabilities that endangered our people and our allies. If he had not crossed that second line, he’d just be a legitimate whistleblower, but he decided to actively harm the U.S. intelligence community and they will never allow a pardon.<p>I’d lay odds if he ever steps foot in an unprotected setting, a slip on a banana peel and a fatal head injury wouldn’t shock me.<p>He’s a traitor. I’m as liberal as it gets and even I think he went too far.