Yes, but what about a medal?

Even if we have reforms doesn't mean Snowden was right in what he did, national hero my ass. Carter is a loose cannon.

I believe a poll on Snowden showed a majority of Americans think he should do jail time, even if the think the NSA is over reaching.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-most-th…

Three posts, three total sentences and one link. You had to click six times. Just try to compose your thoughts a bit before vomiting then onto the internet.

We need loose cannons, the majority of Americans are wrong, and Edward Snowden is a hero.

Snowden's an okay guy, his revelations are important, and he probably should be pardoned. That doesn't make him a hero.

I just wonder who's gonna get the "honors" for delivering the first slobbery blowjob to him when and if he returns, since nothing short of a Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and free blowjobs for the rest of his life will do his unwavering (if seriously contingent) heroism justice in the minds of his most fervent supporters.

If the President actually cared about the integrity of our intelligence agencies he would issue a blanket pardon to Snowden immediately so he could testify before a special committee investigating the significant security failures which led to his being able to secure national secrets from his position as a contract employee. That he doesn't do shows that the administration is simply playing politics and trying to save face.

Snowden gave the secrets he was given access to over to journalists. The other contractors who have, presumably ongoing, access to equally sensitive secrets are instead agents of foreign governments or are selling to the highest bidder. They are causing real damage and nobody in the administration wants to admit how badly our intelligence agencies have been got.

If Obama pardoned him AND had him killed, he'd be handed a third term.

Snowden posts certainly bring out the authoritarian bootlickers...

10: Most people who resort to terms like "authoritarian bootlickers" and other pre-packaged ad hominem attacks are dumb demagogues, or just kids who think they're fighting the man when really they're just so angry about stuff while sitting around on the Internet (as opposed to the prison they would be sitting in in an authentically authoritarian regime). It's possible to dislike and protest the NSA as well as the executive branch's excesses without fawning over Snowden. Your post is just as crude and black and white as the shit right-wingers post.

Carter again proves he's the only of the living President's who deserves to be called Mr. President.

Yeah, it's too bad Carter was a shitty president while he was in office, spearheading the privatization project Reagan would complete, escalating secret wars in Central America while claiming to give a shit about human rights, and essentially mismanaging his way through every crisis that confronted the US. I like the guy, but he wasn't that great, not for the left, not for anyone, when he was in office. Everyone will love Obama too when he says all kinds of progressive shit after he leaves office.

Giving intel to Russia and China makes it impossible for him to get pardoned. Paultard dun goofed.

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Weren't you going on about how people need to be punished if they break the law yesterday?

Carter and his big, self-serving mouth are chiefly responsible for billions of dollars of damage to the Canadian softwood lumber industry caused by punitive duties several times ruled unwarranted by third party mediators. Who cares what he says?

Yeah, well, nobody's perfect. But he is a tireless humanitarian. And that's better than most ex presidents.

@16- He gave the American people information they paid for. The fact that living in an open society means our "enemies" (do you really think China is an enemy?) can easily access our information is just the way it is.

@19- "Who cares what he says?" Everyone outside the whingiest fringe of the Canadian softwood lumber industry, which is about 7 billion people.

@13, 17: I made a gorillion dollars last month by following this one weird trick. Accountants hate it!

This might be a stupid question, but does Snowden have to be convicted first to be pardoned, or is Carter talking about the Justice Department dropping all charges? If it's the latter, than another President could simply charge him again I would assume.

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Not a stupid question. Didn't Bush Senior pardon all the Iran Contra guys to shut down Walsh's investigation. I know they sure never went to trial and were never convicted. So based on that, I would guess Carter means pardon now.