I like your statement that Snowden and Assange seek reasonable plea agreements with the U.S. With perhaps a minimum term in confinement, and Snoweden to never be permitted to hold a security clearance hereafter. I appreciate what Assange has done for America, and would prefer he gets an “out of jail pass” here in the states and can get repatriated to Australia,
As to Sweden, I heard Julian say the other day that there was some sort of interview coming up with respect to the Swedish legal process and that he and his lawyers were confident that he would be exonerated on the merits.
The bigger question, beyond the fate of Assange and Snowden as individuals, is how to deal with the massive Surveillance State constructed by the Neocons and the Left.
The Neocon/Left policy of Bush/Clinton/Obama has been dubbed “Invade the World/Invite the World.”
But there is a third element that naturally follows on: “Invade the World/Invite the World/Surveil the USA”.
When our Ruling Class insists on large scale Islamic immigration and borders wide open to international narco cartels and terrorist organizations, the Surveillance State is a logical corollary.
But if we stop Invading the World and Inviting the World, maybe we can ease up on the massive Surveillance State.
I can remember when the Left when lunatic over the federal government steps to monitor communist organizations in the 1960s and 1970s. But that was nothing compared to the intrusive surveillance the US government does today on all Americans in our everday telephone and Internet and transportation usage.