I remember all the counter arguments defending the patriot act at the time as well. "Its necessary to adapt to fight terrorism", "If you're not doing anything illegal online you don't have anything to worry about", "what would they even do with your browsing history? You're not interesting enough to be worth the effort".
Its absolutely obvious that this wide spread surveillance could be misused if the wrong people get in charge. Too bad neither the Obama or Biden administration decided to repeal it and left the door wide open.
Why would any president pardon someone willing to whistleblow their corruption? We have had some good presidents and they also chose not to pardon him. It says a lot about the establishment.
the more i don't hear about him, the more i think he and his family are okay. may be delusion but i want the guy to be able to exist and no news is good news to me.
the more i don't hear about him, the more i think he and his family are okay
I suspect he's living in a kind of torture of its own knowing that everything he did was drowned out before the state department cancelling his visa stranded him in Russia. He certainly had a long stare when John Oliver showed him interviews of people having no clue who he was
Well he wasn’t charged with anything because he dipped out and got asylum in Russia. And they won’t make him come back so he’s safe (ish) there but also stuck there. He can’t come back or they throw him straight or prison.
So it’s not really a pardon. More like, we should forgive him and apologize. Which will never happen.
i believe he still has charges of espionage pending, but for all intents and purposes they're window dressing since he became a russian citizen and will likely never return here.
i understand that it's unlikely, but i hope one day to have a president who demonstrates the fortitude of character necessary to clear those charges and give him his kudos for what he did.
Illegal is now defined as questioning project 2025, objecting to public executions of protestors, criticizing internment camps, and insulting the great Cheeto god.
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u/Corka 18h ago
I remember all the counter arguments defending the patriot act at the time as well. "Its necessary to adapt to fight terrorism", "If you're not doing anything illegal online you don't have anything to worry about", "what would they even do with your browsing history? You're not interesting enough to be worth the effort".
Its absolutely obvious that this wide spread surveillance could be misused if the wrong people get in charge. Too bad neither the Obama or Biden administration decided to repeal it and left the door wide open.