He can't be pardoned, since he's not been convicted. Wouldn't he need to go through due process before getting pardoned?

Obama would have to direct his law enforcement agencies to look the other way, and fortunately, we know he'd never do that to an existing law.

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Anonymous wrote:Nope. And I am a Democrat voting for Hillary.

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+2.

I'm glad some of the surveillance on citizens stuff got out but I think his motivations were entirely selfish and that he is a sketchy little dude who is primarily out for number one and has eaten up all the attention. He's made himself out to be some kind of martyr and somehow gotten all of Hollywood on his side.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Hero. He unmasked the police state we live in

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I think what he did was REALLY brave. I honestly don't know if I could be that brave and self sacrificing. I'd like to think so but I'd probably chicken out.

If you know anything about counter-intelligence, you would know that he did more damage to our national security that some of the spies that have been caught in recent years. Aldrich Ames.... Robert Hanssen......John Walker.... all spies that caused incredible damage to our national security and because of the information they passed, people were killed.

This guy is worse. He is no hero. He is a coward. He revealed information than ran to Russia for protection. He couldn’t even stay in the US to defend himself.
He is a treasonous coward.

sketchy little weasel. His whole background is sketchy - I can't figure out how he ever came to be a contractor in the first place with access to what he claims to have had access to.

And I have no pity for him running away to Russia.

Anonymous wrote:Hero. He unmasked the police state we live in

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I think what he did was REALLY brave. I honestly don't know if I could be that brave and self sacrificing. I'd like to think so but I'd probably chicken out.

Anonymous wrote:I think he did the right thing exposing spying on us. But I don't see him ever getting pardoned.

Likewise. I think he went about it in a heavy-handed way and perhaps exposed too much. But the core of what he exposed was so important that I would not prosecute him. Following orders isn't the be-all and end-all. If the government is acting illegally or beyond the bounds of its authority, as I believe the government was for some of the things he exposed, then the higher morality is to expose it.

I think he did the right thing exposing spying on us. But I don't see him ever getting pardoned.

A treasonous thief. The good he did by exposing NSA over-reach was far, far outweighed by the Mullins and millions of pages of documents that he stole that were directly relevant to national security.

Hero. He unmasked the police state we live in

Anonymous wrote:Nope. And I am a Democrat voting for Hillary.

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I hope Obama leaves his ass in Russia to rot.

He's a weasel who thought he was smart enough to get away with what he did.

Nope. And I am a Democrat voting for Hillary.

Are you hoping Obama pardons him?