Posted on 12/31/2020 10:17:50 AM PST by RandFan
WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress are pushing President Trump to grant clemency to whistleblower Edward Snowden amid a blitz of pardons during his final weeks in the White House, according to a new report.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), as well as recently pardoned Trump associate Roger Stone, have all asked the president in recent days to drop the criminal charges against the former National Security Agency contractor, Politico reported Thursday.
The president’s allies reportedly see Trump as increasingly amenable to the controversial idea and have pitched Snowden as someone who was unfairly persecuted after exposing the NSA’s massive domestic surveillance program.
Paul told the publication that Snowden, who has been living in exile in Russia, also exposed James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, for lying to Congress about warrantless spying on US citizens.
“He revealed that James Clapper, the highest-ranking, most powerful spy in the world, was spying on Americans and lied to us about it,” Paul said in an interview.
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Pardon Snowden and Assange!
YES!
Hang clapper. Clap on, clap off.
I thought this had been known already in the past, that Clapper had to admit he lied about this. Is this new?
I also wondered why, if that were true, why he was not charged with lying under oath.
My memory fails me on this, and perhaps he stated in the media that the NSA wasn’t spying on Americans, then under oath, had to admit that wasn’t true.
PARDON them BOTH - SNOWDEN and ASSANGE!!
They have already walked the path that Mr. Trump is walking. No one knows that path better than our President.
Not until all the evidence is provided and Clapper gets charged.
Clapper is 100 times the traitor that Pollard ever was.
I’m sure it’s possible to expose clapper without pardoning snowden.
No!
Only liberal leakers that want a sex change and publicly state how great Obama is get pardons.
No double standard, whatsoever. (sarc)
Yes, he and Assange need pardoned. In fact, I’m not even sure what sort of magical bullshit legalistic tricks we played to get Assange!?!?! He wasn’t a US citizen. He wasn’t in the US... And the guy that actually stole all the material (Manning), was a US citizen, serving in the armed forces, took an oath and signed papers outlining is legal obligations regards the material he released to Assange, but he not only gets a pardon, the US tax payer pays for his frigging sex change. Hahahahaaha
DC is the biggest, un-constitutional spy network in world history. Shut it down, or perish.
Brennan, Clapper and Comey should have all been arrested Day 1 of the Trump administration.
Yes...pardon both Assange and Snowden.
Hey Randfan.
Happy New Year.
lol
Wanna bet that Trump is being offered a deal right now: do not pardon Assange and Snowden, and we will drop the phony Letitia James/SDNY prosecutions of the Trump family.
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Maybe.... but would you trust them to honour their side of the deal? By the way, I do suspect that there are discussions of that nature going on right now.
And to you...
Doing anything tonight or are gatherings banned?
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