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Trump is considering pardon for leaker Edward Snowden

On Saturday, Donald Trump said, that he is considering a pardon for Edward Snowden, the former US National Security Agency contractor, now living in Russia, whose spectacular leaks shook the US intelligence community in 2013.

Trump gave to the New York post this week, in which he said of Snowden that “there are a lot of people that think that he is not being treated fairly” by US law enforcement. US authorities for years have wanted Snowden returned to the United States to face a criminal trial on espionage charges brought in 2013. Snowden fled the UN and was given asylum in Russia after he leaked a trove of secret files in 2013 to news organizations that revealed vast domestic and international surveillance operations carried out by the NSA. Trump’s softening stance toward Snowden represents a sharp reversal. Shortly after the leaks, Trump expressed hostility toward Snowden, calling him  a spy who should be executed.

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Trump told reporters about  a possible pardon, speaking at a news conference at his Bedminster, New Jersey golf club, that, ” I am going to start looking at it.” Trump said , he thinks Americans on both political left and the right are divided on Snowden. Trump also said to reporters that, “it seems to be a split decision”. ” Many people think he should be somehow treated differently, and other people think he did very bad things.”

Some civil libertarians have praised Snowden for revealing the extraordinary scope of America’s digital espionage operations including domestic spying programs that senior US officials had publicly insisted did not exist. But such move would horrify many in the US intelligence community, some of whose most important secrets were exposed. Trump has harshly criticized past leaders of the US intelligence community and FBI, on Thursday took aim at the bureau’s current director Christopher Wray, his own appointee.

The US Justice Department filed a lawsuit last September against Snowden, arguing that his recently published memoir ” Permanent Record”, violated non-disclosure agreements. The Justice Department said Snowden published the book without submitting it to intelligent agencies for review, adding that speeches given by Snowden also violated nondisclosure agreements. Trump’s use of his executive clemency power including pardons often has benefited allies and well-connected political figures.

He last month commuted the sentence of his longtime friend and adviser Roger Stone, sparing him from prison after he was convicted of lying under oath to lawmakers investigating Russian interference in the 2016 US election to boost Trump’s candidacy.

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