Edward Snowden (NSA leakerblower) won’t be pardoned. I’m not arguing that he
shouldn’t be pardoned, but that he
won’t be pardoned. The chances are near zero, and the pro-pardon crowd doesn't seem to be doing anything to cange this. This post lists a bunch of reasons why. If your goal is to get him pardoned, these are the sorts of things you’ll have to overcome.
The tl;dr list is this:
- Obama hates whistleblowers
- Obama loves the NSA
- A pardon would be betrayal
- Snowden leaked because he was disgruntled, not because he was a man of conscience (***)
- Snowden hasn’t yet been convicted
- Snowden leaked too much
- Snowden helped Russian intelligence
- Nothing was found to be illegal or unconstitutional
