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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If he'd had the courage of his convictions to stay here and face the consequences of his behavior, I'd probably view him as a hero and hope that he would be pardoned. That he instead hightailed it out of the country and then decided to stay in Russia, a place that should be so deeply antithetical to his beliefs about transparency, privacy and freedom, completely destroyed his credibility in my mind. He's an opportunist.[/quote]

You may be right but in my mind his motivations and what he released are separate. His motivations may go toward whether or not he should be pardoned. But at bottom if what he released demonstrated illegal activity by the government, then it was a moral act to release it regardless of why he released it.

I will freely admit I likely would not have had the courage to release it no matter what. I like to think I would, but deep down I know I would not. And I likely would have fled too. It's the rare person who has the courage to stick around to be jailed and possibly tried for treason. This isn't Hollywood. Most people are not heroes.[/quote]

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