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I don't think this position qualify as pro-Snowden. The trial facing by Snowden is for "treason", which is by definition false because no third party government

I don't think this position qualify as pro-Snowden. The trial facing by Snowden is for "treason", which is by definition false because no third party government was involved. I think it's pretty binary debate. It's not 5 years jail time vs. life sentence like Sanders seems to imply.

elevenfist 11y ago
The US will not seek the death penalty for Snowden. [1] So functionally what Sanders is describing is the same. [1] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LzcZPxvq_X8J:www.cnn.com/2013/07/26/us/nsa-snowden/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LzcZPxv...