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I am not as confident about predicting the future but I like to think that the current demand for a Snowden pardon, despite “Russia”, would have been significan

• whimsicalism 3y ago
  You are incredibly optimistic, in my view. There were hardly any calls for Manning to be pardoned (in large media scale) and the general american public has never even heard of “collateral murder.” And now public opinion has cooled post-Hillary Clinton leaks. Assange is likely facing significant jail time simply for helping Manning by googling a md5 hash and saying he didn’t get anything, you think Snowden would get less than a decade in jail? If these are the standards you hold for someone to be a legitimate whistleblower, …good luck. I think you are being overly influenced by national sentiment.