Just to add my 2 cents: the list of countries that the US can’t extradite is not that long, especially when you exposed government corruption of the highest degree and you are considered a traitor.
Against his personal safety he told the world what was going on. I feel its unfair to demand that he should have chosen a better country to flee in order to not be thrown in some forsaken US hole with the time he had…
I feel like call him traitor is fundamentally misunderstanding the sacrifice of one safety to alert your country that your own country is spying on you. Like the Army guy that went to jail for speaking out against the current regime (forgot the name).
These are the people doing the sacrifice no one is willing to do for Americans and the World. In my eyes they are heroes just by standing up for everyone
He actually offered to return to the US if they accepted that he would be given a public trial and not a military trial.
Obama’s administration rejected the idea and said that their only guarantee they would give was that they wouldn’t torture him.
Just to add my 2 cents: the list of countries that the US can’t extradite is not that long, especially when you exposed government corruption of the highest degree and you are considered a traitor.
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Just to add my 2 cents: the list of countries that the US can’t extradite is not that long, especially when you exposed government corruption of the highest degree and you are considered a traitor.
Just to add, Snowden also indirectly exposed the US’s leverage in several countries that you would otherwise assume would not cooperate with the US in any capacity.
The fact that he ended up in Russia was because he couldn’t proceed to Ecuador which was his original planned location of asylum after leaving to Hong Kong.
There are really very few countries the US can’t realistically coerce or run a black ops mission to go after him. China didn’t want the political baggage for no gain and Iran can’t even protect its own leaders from strategic bombing.
That leaves basically Russia and its less than ideal former soviet allies.
Obama just said he wouldn’t give him a pardon, but the administration did say they would give him legal protections and thought he would get a fair trial. One thing to remember is that we typically have 3 branches of government. These days, not so much it feels like
I have the biography and I need to start it.
Just to add my 2 cents: the list of countries that the US can’t extradite is not that long, especially when you exposed government corruption of the highest degree and you are considered a traitor.
Against his personal safety he told the world what was going on. I feel its unfair to demand that he should have chosen a better country to flee in order to not be thrown in some forsaken US hole with the time he had…
I feel like call him traitor is fundamentally misunderstanding the sacrifice of one safety to alert your country that your own country is spying on you. Like the Army guy that went to jail for speaking out against the current regime (forgot the name).
These are the people doing the sacrifice no one is willing to do for Americans and the World. In my eyes they are heroes just by standing up for everyone
Currently known as Chelsea Manning.
He actually offered to return to the US if they accepted that he would be given a public trial and not a military trial.
Obama’s administration rejected the idea and said that their only guarantee they would give was that they wouldn’t torture him.
EDIT:
Just to add, Snowden also indirectly exposed the US’s leverage in several countries that you would otherwise assume would not cooperate with the US in any capacity.
The fact that he ended up in Russia was because he couldn’t proceed to Ecuador which was his original planned location of asylum after leaving to Hong Kong.
There are really very few countries the US can’t realistically coerce or run a black ops mission to go after him. China didn’t want the political baggage for no gain and Iran can’t even protect its own leaders from strategic bombing.
That leaves basically Russia and its less than ideal former soviet allies.
Obama just said he wouldn’t give him a pardon, but the administration did say they would give him legal protections and thought he would get a fair trial. One thing to remember is that we typically have 3 branches of government. These days, not so much it feels like
if you’re going to sacrifice yourself don’t stop at the hand, take the whole head.
heroes don’t need people to defend their actions because the actions of a hero need no validation.
Snowden is just a man. he’s no hero.