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Ed Snowden should be pardoned, thunders Amnesty Int'l

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"Sadly a lot of people seem to not get that all he did was expose the illegal activities of the government."

If that was all he did I doubt many people apart from a few NSA wonks would care. But he put the lives of operatives at risk by releasing so much data, he compromised anti terrorist operations and whats more gave russia and china more information than their spies could have managed in decades.

If snowdon is such an evangelist for "freedom" isn't it odd he's saying nothing about Putins illegal invasion of Ukraine or suppresion of the russian press? Or is he scared of a government that really doesn't fuck about when you piss it off and is only bound by whatever laws Putin thinks apply that day? Answers on a postcard.

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