alt Hacker NewsNo radical act of self sacrifice would have been necessary had he only leaked illegal or possibly illegal programs. Instead, he went to Hong Kong and leaked a list of compromised Chinese networks and systems in hopes of getting asylum from China.
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If one country wants to kill you why wouldn't you flee to a different one and give them everything you have against the first country?
Just like with John Kiriakou, the only man ever convicted in connection with the torture program? He went to prison for two years despite only ever leaking information about illegal programs, lost his wife, lost all his money; is that the mercy you expected Snowden to submit to?
Your president literally does illegal things all the time and your Supreme Court just declares it’s legal because it’s the president.
You have zero moral ground or credibility to stand on.
That's a conspiracy theory I haven't heard before which I'm pretty sure I'll never hear a shred of evidence for.
That's a very optimistic view of the US justice system's treatment of whistleblowers (surely they would contend that all of their programs were legal), but now his being granted asylum by Russia isn't evidence but a new incongruous fact we need to explain since the hypothesis is now apparently that he is a Chinese turncoat. So I don't see how this helps the case.