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Anyone asking him to come back and face trial under the current conditions is either naïve or a fool. However, I think that he should at least put conditions on

Anyone asking him to come back and face trial under the current conditions is either naïve or a fool. However, I think that he should at least put conditions on the table under which he would return to the US to face trial. The most important condition would be strict adherence to the 8th amendment, which means no possibility of solitary confinement or other cruel and unusual punishment and reasonable bail, so he is afforded the same rights that Daniel Ellsberg was after leaking the Pentagon papers. The other required condition would be changing the jurisdiction in which charges are brought back to where they should have been filed, which is Hawaii, not Virginia. Cherry-picking a jurisdiction where many of those that will be on the jury may work in the IC community or have close ties to the IC community is not justice. In fact, it is a perversion of it. Lastly, (and I know this would never happen), but I would love to see a Frost v. Nixon type debate involving Glenn Greenwald, Edward Snowden, Barack Obama, Gen. Keith Alexander and James Clapper live on national TV unrehearsed.

mindslight 13y ago
You're falling into the trap that you're calling out other people for falling into. > The most important condition would be strict adherence to the 8th amendment This is supposed to be a condition of USG existing in the first place, so the only thing it could give is more empty promises. > In fact, it is a perversion of it [justice] Once again, if USG was bound by anything, it would already not be perverting justice in every other trial. At this point to Snowden, USG is just an angry beast to be avoided at all costs. More power to him for working to unmask the extent of its colonization of the world while he's still in limbo. But at this point, he can never return to the soft prison with free speech, and has to deal with being in the rest of the world without it. The only thing we can wish for him is to be able to resume a nice life next to a beach somewhere.

mindslight 13y ago

You're falling into the trap that you're calling out other people for falling into. > The most important condition would be strict adherence to the 8th amendment This is supposed to be a condition of USG existing in the first place, so the only thing it could give is more empty promises. > In fact, it is a perversion of it [justice] Once again, if USG was bound by anything, it would already not be perverting justice in every other trial. At this point to Snowden, USG is just an angry beast to be avoided at all costs. More power to him for working to unmask the extent of its colonization of the world while he's still in limbo. But at this point, he can never return to the soft prison with free speech, and has to deal with being in the rest of the world without it. The only thing we can wish for him is to be able to resume a nice life next to a beach somewhere.