Should Trump Pardon Snowden? – Open Thread

Over the weekend, President Trump suggested that he was considering a pardon for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden who exposed the Obama regime’s mass domestic surveillance programs.

Back in 2013, The former government contractor turned whistleblower absconded to Hong Kong with a trove of evidence detailing how the National Security Agency under Obama had engaged in warrantless spying using an array of sophisticated computer programs.

Snowden’s revelations were a forewarning of the abuse of the systems that theoretically are put in place to protect Americans from terrorism and the nation from our enemies but were routinely abused by Obama who treated the NSA like his personal Stasi.

Trump made his remarks during a Saturday news conference that was held at his golf resort in Bedminster, NJ.

The president’s thinking on Snowden has evolved drastically since harsh comments that he made back in 2013, possibly because he now has a much better understanding of how the surveillance system was used by Obama against his enemies – including himself.

Snowden has been trapped in Russia since 2013 where he was granted asylum after the Obama regime revoked his passport in a fit of rage after he exposed their sweeping surveillance and abuses of power.

The news that Trump may pardon Snowden triggered Obama loyalists including Susan Rice who regularly ordered the unmasking of Trump’s associates in a scandal that the POTUS has since dubbed Obamagate.

Also getting her panties in a bunch over the idea is Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, Dick Cheney’s daughter.

It’s understandable that Cheney would be upset about a possible Snowden pardon because after all if it wasn’t for her father and Dubya putting the surveillance systems into place then they would not have been there for Barack Obama to abuse.

While Snowden elicits strong reactions from many with him being viewed as “traitor” or “patriot” in the past, now that the spying on President Trump to reverse the results of a legitimate election cast matters in a much different light now.

There is also the matter of the Shadow Gate documentary that was posted here at Def-Con News on Saturday but has since been censored by the communists in Silicon Valley although it is still out there even as Twitter, Facebook and Google play “whack-a-mole” by deleting copies and banning users to try to put the toothpaste back into the tube.

So what do you say deplorables? Pardon Snowden?

And if he does, should Julian Assange be next?

This is your chance to weigh in.