Whitehouse Petition to Pardon Edward Snowden:

[limpyhobbler]

http://wh.gov/liZnR

WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO: Pardon Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden is a national hero and should be immediately issued a a full, free, and absolute pardon for any crimes he has committed or may have committed related to blowing the whistle on secret NSA surveillance programs.

Created: Jun 09, 2013

Link---> http://wh.gov/liZnR


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This petition is clearly going to meet the 100,000 signature threshold.

He probably won't get pardoned, but the point is to send a message.

[Tx4obama]

1. The petition is stupid. A person cannot be pardoned if that person has not yet been convicted.

Whoever started the petition should have said 'IMMUNITY' not 'pardon'.

[GReedDiamond]

2. If I recall correctly, Gerald Ford...

...pardoned Dick Nixon, even though, unfortunately, he was not convicted of anything.

So there is that...

[Tx4obama]

5. I'll give ya that. But that was 'one president' that was pardoned out of all modern day pardons. n/t

[limpyhobbler]

4. Sorry that's wrong. The President can pardon a person who has not yet been charged or convicted.

Pre-emptive Presidential Pardons
Can you be pardoned for a crime before you're ever charged?

Yep. In 1866, the Supreme Court ruled in Ex parte Garland that the pardon power "extends to every offence known to the law, and may be exercised at any time after its commission, either before legal proceedings are taken, or during their pendency, or after conviction and judgment." (In that case, a former Confederate senator successfully petitioned the court to uphold a pardon that prevented him from being disbarred.) Generally speaking, once an act has been committed, the president can issue a pardon at any time—regardless of whether charges have even been filed.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2008/07/preemptive_presidential_pardons.html

[one_voice]

3. Why does he need to be pardoned...

I thought he didn't do anything wrong.

[Tx4obama]

6. Apparently the 70,855 folks that signed the petition must think he committed a crime :) n/t

[railsback]

10. LoL!

How true.

[limpyhobbler]

11. Make that 71,206.

That he broke the law is not in question.

The question is whether his actions were justified.

[limpyhobbler]

8. He stole classified information and gave it to a newspaper.

He could end up in jail for the rest of his life.

In my opinion what he did was not wrong because he exposed massive government abuses of power.

That's why he should be pardoned.

[jaysunb]

12. A bit ironic....huh ?

And damn near funny.

[Savannahmann]

7. And that message would be?

That .033% of the more than 300 million people in the nation are supporters, and willing to go on record. I think that's why they have databases, to track that percentage of dissidents.

[railsback]

9. Zzzzzzzzzzzzz

Wow. Way to show the superior intellect of the Left.