• @[email protected]
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    2 years ago

    Snowden deserved Obamas pardon a lot more than Manning. I get the sense that Manning leaked stuff for the sake of leaking stuff, while Snowden uncovered a vast domestic and unconstitutional espionage program to which the general public was unaware.

    • @raspberriesareyummy
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      52 years ago

      NSA being an angry little child with a napkin aside, I believe there was a legal hurdle to Snowden being pardoned: You need to be tried & sentenced before a presidential pardon can be applied, as far as I understood.

      • Exatron
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        172 years ago

        Surprisingly, that actually isn’t required. Nixon was pardoned without even being indicted.

        • @raspberriesareyummy
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          22 years ago

          hmm - interesting. I thought this topic was debated when the orange turd was thinking about pardoning itself preemptively…

          • Exatron
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            22 years ago

            That’s a different issue since it’s not clear whether a president has the power to pardon themself.

            • @raspberriesareyummy
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              12 years ago

              yeah, but I thought both aspects were discussed at the time - I must be misremembering