re: Would you pardon Edward Snowden? Chealsea Manning?

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You mean the same intelligence apparatus who embarked on the largest disinformation campaign in American presidential history to try and delegitimize the election of Trump. Most conservatives on here rightly don't believe a word the intelligence community says about the Russian hacking, yet they eat up every word these same people say about Snowden and Manning.

Of course the intelligence community hated these two. If the American people were actually informed of the depth of our surveillance apparatus they might rein it in, which means less money and power for those in the NSA and CIA.

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