US lawmakers
intend to shoot down any hope for pardoning Edward Snowden, claiming
that the former NSA contractor is a criminal, not a whistleblower.
This comes as prominent human rights organizations launched a
campaign to have him pardoned.
A letter to
President Barack Obama from the House of Representative’s Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence claims that Snowden “perpetrated
the largest and most damaging public disclosure of classified
information in our nation’s history,” and deemed him unworthy
of the presidential pardon that groups like the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU) believe he deserves.
The
lawmakers claimed that Snowden’s defense that he released over 1.5
million files exposing unlawful programs doesn’t hold water because
Snowden did not “avail himself of the many lawful avenues to
express legal, moral, or ethical qualms with US intelligence
activities.”
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