{"id":56012,"date":"2020-12-14T18:15:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T23:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56012"},"modified":"2020-12-14T18:15:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T23:15:15","slug":"the-case-for-a-pardon-of-edward-snowden-by-president-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56012","title":{"rendered":"The Case For a Pardon of Edward Snowden by President Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-header \">\n<h3 class=\"post-title long unpublished\"><a href=\"https:\/\/greenwald.substack.com\/p\/the-case-for-a-pardon-of-edward-snowden\">The Case For a Pardon of Edward Snowden by President Trump<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"subtitle\"><strong>The real criminals are those he exposed: the security state officials who illegally and unconstitutionally spied on innocent people by the millions, and who still do so.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"body markup\">\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure><a class=\"image-link image2 image2-893-1456\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F44a9fe30-4749-4554-b871-30aa29658c5e_3000x1839.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F44a9fe30-4749-4554-b871-30aa29658c5e_3000x1839.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/44a9fe30-4749-4554-b871-30aa29658c5e_3000x1839.jpeg&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:893,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:423834,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null}\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"image-caption\">Edward Snowden speaks via video link at a news conference for the launch of a campaign calling for a pardon on September 14, 2016, in New York City (Photo by Spencer Platt\/Getty Images).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>A U.S. appellate court<\/strong>\u00a0in September\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-nsa-spying-idUSKBN25T3CK\">unanimously ruled<\/a>\u00a0that the NSA\u2019s program of mass domestic surveillance was illegal, as well as likely a violation of the Fourth Amendment\u2019s guarantee against \u201cunreasonable searches and seizures.\u201d The court, and the broader public, knew about this illegal mass surveillance program created by the NSA only because Edward Snowden, while working inside that agency, discovered its existence and concluded in 2012 that the American public has the right know about what was being secretly done to them and their privacy by their own government.<\/p>\n<p>Upon making the decision to blow the whistle on this security state illegality, Snowden delivered the documents relating to that program and other then-unknown systems of mass online surveillance not by dumping them indiscriminately on the internet or selling them or passing them to foreign governments, but by providing them to journalists (including myself) with\u00a0<em>The Guardian, The Washington Post\u00a0<\/em>and other news outlets. The documents Snowden provided were accompanied by requests to report them responsibly. He thus relinquished the power entirely to make decisions about which documents would and would not be published, leaving those decisions exclusively to news outlets.<\/p>\n<div class=\"subscribe-widget is-signed-up\">\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Case For a Pardon of Edward Snowden by President Trump The real criminals are those he exposed: the security state officials who illegally and unconstitutionally spied on innocent people by the millions, and who still do so. Edward Snowden speaks via video link at a news conference for the launch of a campaign calling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[249,5437,2001,30715,7845,827],"class_list":["post-56012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-edward-snowden","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-julian-assange","tag-pardon","tag-security-state","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56013,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56012\/revisions\/56013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}