NGL it would be pretty funny if Snowden gets to return to the west but we hadn't actually fixed any of the stuff he brought forward in the meantime. Not sure what I would do in his shoes... I guess a pardon is pretty impossible for future presidents to get around, TBF

The courage a lot of these whistleblowers have shown is admirable. How the American public outrages, though: Facebook has targeted ads. How they don't outrage: their government is illegally tracking their own citizens' movements and communications including overseas.

Not going to say Ulbricht is a hero like some of the others, but he trail blazed like none before him! And he deserves his freedom years ago.

I'd be worried about the Russians putting him in jail if the US pardoned him.

Why? He did nothing to deserve punishment in Russia. If anything, if Snowden left, I think Putin would be relieved he doesn't have to treat a potential nuisance with utmost care anymore. At the moment he can't really disappear him and has to waste resources monitoring him.

Your mistake is thinking that you need to deserve it to be punished in Russia

I don't think Putin would want to taint his relationship with Trump on his first week on the White House.

That doesn't mean that he would want to be seen to be a pushover https://thehill.com/policy/international/5098063-donald-trum...

Oh that’s going to be good if it happens.

Everyone will celebrate Trump’s good deed while he funnels more government money to companies like Palantir to do things similar to PRISM.

private intelligence still has a few ways to go before whistleblowers don't have all their rights stripped by the state

The right gets to power and the first thing it does is to pardon its friends and allies.

The left goes into power and does basically nothing.

And then we wonder why one side is winning.

The elite are winning. This isn't football.

For someone that likes to take top secret documents and share them with unauthorized people, Snowden sounds perfect for this guy to pardon