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Not withstanding this late, clueless response to the petition, Obama's only real way of not going down in history as the "Peeping Tom President" is to pardon Snowden before he leaves office.
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"judged by a jury of his peers" During the selection process for the Boston Bomber, a jury was selected of which only people willing to sentence him to death were allowed on. Snowdon would get a similar filtration. They would filter away any techies, etc until all that's left are people who will take the governments word as gospel. Ignoring the fact that the charges he's been charged with already don't allow for fair…
What evidence is there for your jury claims?
This is the biggest load of horseshit I've ever read. > Since taking office, President Obama has worked with Congress to secure appropriate reforms that balance the protection of civil liberties with the ability of national security professionals to secure information vital to keep Americans safe. Yes of course he has. > Mr. Snowden's dangerous decision to steal and disclose classified information had severe conseque…
Isn't that the answer to all petitions? Petitions are just pleas to the king. It is in the king's prerogatives to ignore them.
What you need in a democratic society is not petitions, but acts of parliament.
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Manning was not whistleblower.
By what definition of 'whistleblower'?
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"judged by a jury of his peers" During the selection process for the Boston Bomber, a jury was selected of which only people willing to sentence him to death were allowed on. Snowdon would get a similar filtration. They would filter away any techies, etc until all that's left are people who will take the governments word as gospel. Ignoring the fact that the charges he's been charged with already don't allow for fair…
What evidence is there for your jury claims?
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/11/06/jury-selection-...
The pervasive surveillance activities of the government are one thing; one could kind of expect it in the absence of law or a constitution. But it's not just that. The deliberate activities to undermine, weaken, and even ban encryption and the very foundations for secure communications is just plain dirty. It's clear that the thrust of these programs was never the best interest of the public, but furtherance of espio…
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Most importantly, anyone with knowledge of jury nullification [1] would not be allowed on the jury. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
This is a real problem. I was dismissed from a DUI case last year because I felt that it was a problem that the officer had forcibly administered a blood test while at the scene (this was after the Supreme Court case). The judge and prosecutor were very vocal about the fact that they were only interested in jurors who would be content to entertain whether the accused was intoxicated, without going any further into th…
Taking classified/secret information to a hostile country is treason. If he had done what Ellsburg did and stayed in the United States and face a jury, I think a strong case could be made for pardoning him or for jury nullification. However, by going to China and Russia (which are actually probably more involved in monitoring and controlling Internet use by their subjects) he committed treason, and I hope he eventually gets handed back to the United States to serve a very long prison sentence.