Edward Snowden would be willing to return to US for fair trial
Aug., 2020 - "Full Interview: Edward Snowden On Trump, Privacy, And Threats To Democracy | The 11th Hour | MSNBC "The Snowden Prism" "I bumped into this one, or did it bump into me. Heh, since it's been a while since a Snowden has appeared i thought watch. Then, ok .. why not. And there is lots of interesting stuff on the case around here. I also have a feeling he may be in the news again. Maybe a couple of years. Or sooner.""
Former NSA contractor tells supporters he would present public interest defence if he appeared before American jury
Jamie Grierson @JamieGrierson Sun 21 Feb 2016 22.37 AEDT
Full Interview: Edward Snowden On Trump, Privacy, And Threats To Democracy | The 11th Hour | MSNBC
•Sep 18, 2019
MSNBC
On the eve of his memoir 'Permanent Record' being published, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden talked at length from Moscow with MSNBC's Brian Williams in an exclusive interview. This is their discussion in its entirety, edited down slightly for clarity. Aired on 9/17/2019.
That is the same same video as in the post this post replies to.
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Daniel Ellsberg: Snowden would not get a fair trial – and Kerry is wrong
Daniel Ellsberg
Fri 30 May 2014 21.45 AEST
Edward Snowden is the greatest patriot whistleblower of our time, and he knows what I learned more than four decades ago: until the Espionage Act gets reformed, he can never come home safe and receive justice
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As I know from direct chat-log conversations with him over the past year, Snowden acted in full knowledge of the constitutionally questionable efforts of the Obama administration, in particular, to use the Espionage Act in a way it was never intended by Congress: as the equivalent of a British-type Official Secrets Act criminalizing any and all unauthorized release of classified information. (Congress has repeatedly rejected proposals for such an act as violating the First Amendment protections of free speech and a free press; the one exception to that was vetoed by President Clinton in November 2000, on constitutional grounds.)
John Kerry's challenge to Snowden to return and face trial is either disingenuous or simply ignorant that current prosecutions under the Espionage Act allow no distinction whatever between a patriotic whistleblower and a spy. Either way, nothing excuses Kerry's slanderous and despicable characterizations of a young man who, in my opinion, has done more than anyone in or out of government in this century to demonstrate his patriotism, moral courage and loyalty to the oath of office the three of us swore: to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.
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