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?
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.