The Obama administration should be able to come to a conclusion and offer Edward Snowden a reason to return home.
Carlyle is already off the hook for their invasion of privacy. Let's face it the entire scenario was about the license Carlyle took with American's information. Edward Snowden is a whistleblower and nothing more.
How did Americans think nearly a decade of government intelligence abuse would end, by saying pretty please?
The ONLY Americans demanding an outcome for treason of Edward Snowden are FOX News propagandists. Edward Snowden's life and freedom should not be determined by propagandists.
May 30, 2016
By Michael Biesecker
Washington (AP) — Edward Snowden (click here) performed a "public service" in stoking a national debate about secret domestic surveillance programs, but he should still return to the U.S. to stand trial, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a podcast released on Monday.
As a National Security Agency contractor, Snowden leaked classified details in 2013 of the U.S. government's warrantless surveillance of its citizens before fleeing the country. He now lives in Russia and faces U.S. charges that could land him in prison for up to 30 years.
In a podcast interview with CNN political commentator David Axelrod, Holder said that Snowden had grown concerned that the domestic spying programs weren't providing a "substantial" return of useful intelligence even before even before he revealed the secrets.
Axelrod is a former senior adviser to President Barack Obama, while Holder served as attorney general from 2009 to 2015.
"We can certainly argue about the way in which Snowden did what he did, but I think that he actually performed a public service by raising the debate we engaged in and by the changes that we made," Holder said. "Now, I would say doing what he did in the way he did it was inappropriate and illegal."...
Carlyle is already off the hook for their invasion of privacy. Let's face it the entire scenario was about the license Carlyle took with American's information. Edward Snowden is a whistleblower and nothing more.
How did Americans think nearly a decade of government intelligence abuse would end, by saying pretty please?
The ONLY Americans demanding an outcome for treason of Edward Snowden are FOX News propagandists. Edward Snowden's life and freedom should not be determined by propagandists.
May 30, 2016
By Michael Biesecker
Washington (AP) — Edward Snowden (click here) performed a "public service" in stoking a national debate about secret domestic surveillance programs, but he should still return to the U.S. to stand trial, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a podcast released on Monday.
As a National Security Agency contractor, Snowden leaked classified details in 2013 of the U.S. government's warrantless surveillance of its citizens before fleeing the country. He now lives in Russia and faces U.S. charges that could land him in prison for up to 30 years.
In a podcast interview with CNN political commentator David Axelrod, Holder said that Snowden had grown concerned that the domestic spying programs weren't providing a "substantial" return of useful intelligence even before even before he revealed the secrets.
Axelrod is a former senior adviser to President Barack Obama, while Holder served as attorney general from 2009 to 2015.
"We can certainly argue about the way in which Snowden did what he did, but I think that he actually performed a public service by raising the debate we engaged in and by the changes that we made," Holder said. "Now, I would say doing what he did in the way he did it was inappropriate and illegal."...
