re: So our new Sec of State want's Edward Snowden executed

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It's pretty telling that Snowden fled to Russia once the shite hit the fan...just sayin'.

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You do understand that if he returned he wouldn’t have been able to raise an affirmative defense that the documents released were in the public interest? People who use this as evidence of some nefarious action by him have zero understanding of the Espionage Act and the limitations it puts on a Defendant. Even Daniel Ellsberg acknowledged this. Snowden would have been silenced by our government and we’d be none the wiser about our government’s actions and lies.