"NSA Weighs Amnesty For Snowdon"

[applegrove]

NSA Weighs Amnesty For Snowdon

CBS News

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheets/2013/12/13/cheat-sheet.html#1

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Top National Security Agency official Rick Ledgett told 60 Minutes in an interview that will air on Sunday that the U.S. government is considering offering Edward Snowden amnesty if he agrees to return all of the documents he obtained from the NSA. While Ledgett said that “it’s worth having a conversation about” Snowden’s possible amnesty, he also clarified that not everyone in the NSA agrees. Still, Ars Technica points out that even if Snowden met Ledgett’s high bar for assuring the secure return of all the data, journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras are also known to have copies of the documents, making it nearly impossible for such a deal to work.

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[Cooley Hurd]

1. When you commit a crime against the Constitution, and the citizenry has the proof...

...perhaps it's best to STOP committing the crime as opposed to trying to entreat those who exposed the crime? Just sayin'.

[MannyGoldstein]

2. I heartily agree.

But the President's pretty clear that these programs will go on. I do feel your pain, though.

[BlueStreak]

3. Why would they want to do that?

They are having way too much fun being a rogue state out of control of any branch of government.

[treestar]

4. That would go against his supposed

Intent. So if he accepted, it would prove he only did it for himself.

[NuclearDem]

5. Amnesty? But I thought he revealed nothing.