Trump looking at possible pardon for Edward Snowden
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Snowden was more before my time paying attention to politics, can someone give me a fair rundown on the situation at the time, or the general fair perspectives?
For me, I see it as a guy who definitely broke the law, leaked very important stuff - but is also kind of the example of the kind of leak that most people are in favor of. I can understand the need to want 0 leaks, and to constantly protect against such, but I can also understand if my government is doing very illegal shit that it leaking is more important maybe.
I have trouble giving that benefit of the doubt to the slew of leaking shitfucks who are trying to screw over Trump. But I don't have that feeling towards Snowden - he seems to be the real deal. Change my mind, I guess?
Much appreciated, that went into a lot more detail than I was expecting and lays it out pretty well. Congrats, you've earned the "Random guy on the Internet I'm going to think is correct." reward! I'll still look into it a bit more when I have some time, but this seems not-apocryphal!
I did! But I assumed it was kind of not on the mark and a little too hopeful to reflect reality - I did like it a bunch tho!
He saw that the government was secretly spying on its own citizenry in a blatant disregard for the constitution. Where most people would justify such actions or keep their head down, Snowden leaked that info at the risk of his own personal safety and comfort.
He exposed blatant violations of the law and US citizens privacy but also dumped a metric fuck ton of irrelevant data he had no clue about that couldve very easily gotten people killed.