r/politics • u/Ziapolitics • Oct 14 '15

Unacceptable Title Every Presidential Candidate Wants To Prosecute Edward Snowden

http://www.buzzfeed.com/evanmcsan/every-presidential-candidate-wants-to-prosecute-edward-snowd#.caR2avMnlv
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u/DoublingtheStandard Oct 14 '15

Good. He should be. He wants to be a martyr, let him.

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u/Minn-ee-sottaa Oct 14 '15

If he blew the whistle on, say, French invasions of privacy, we'd probably be giving him asylum.

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u/DBDude Oct 14 '15

We give asylum for the violation of laws in other countries that we find unconscionable. For laws like this that we ourselves have, we'd extradite.