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Home Front: Culture Wars
Napolitano: No clemency for Snowden
2014-01-04
[THEHILL] Former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday that she "would not put clemency on the table" for NSA leaker Edward Snowden.
Give him clemency, help him return to the USA, settle him someplace comfy, and help him quietly "decease."
"I think Snowden has exacted quite a bit of damage and did it in a way that violated the law," Napolitano said in an interview airing on "Meet the Press" this Sunday.

She said damage from Snowden's actions will be seen for years to come.
Asked if the administration should consider a deal that would allow Snowden to avoid jail time in return for unreleased documents, Napolitano said she couldn't judge without knowing what information the former defense contractor still had.

"But from where I sit today, I would not put clemency on the table at all," she said.

The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
 and another former B.O. regime official are among the voices calling for Snowden to be given a break.
Posted by:Fred

#8  ...and did it in a way that violated the law," Napolitano said in an interview airing on "Meet the Press" this Sunday.

Irony isn't dead yet!
Posted by: Raj   2014-01-04 12:27  

#7  It is my understanding, he worked for the Klingons as a contractor prior to going to work at nsa. He undoubtedly had passed [both locations] a full-scope poly as well. Young people such as this fellow don't generally have much trouble passing poly's or gaining access.....as long as they are truthful. Not much background info for an investigator to sort through. Less/no history - fewer problems, quick and easy cases to process. Older buggers however, that's another story.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-01-04 10:23  

#6  I'm more curious as to how someone like Snowden ever had the security clearance to access all that data; I sense a conspiracy in which he is just a pawn.
Posted by: Glenmore   2014-01-04 10:15  

#5  Snowden is young. He knew it was wrong but not how to deal with it. Besides, right or wrong, he didn't want to end up like Manning, who deserved the treatment he got.
Posted by: gorb   2014-01-04 09:11  

#4  Not 'conflicted' here. Good sprouting from bad is not a fluke of nature. Nor is the bad necessarily something to celebrate.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-01-04 08:57  

#3  I will admit that I am very ambivalent on this whole issue.

The problem I have is that while I don't like the way that Snowden did it, given the seriousness of the anti-constitutional actions of the NSA / gov't, I'm glad that the whistle was blown.

I'm not sure how he should/could have handled it, given the current regime and their media lapdogs, so that the alarm was rung without turning the info over to the enemy.

I'm open to suggestions but personally I am conflicted.
Posted by: AlanC   2014-01-04 08:52  

#2  It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an Obama.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-01-04 07:50  

#1  Apparently there are people on the Left who aren't really motivated by Snowden being a traitor to his country. They think we should all be "citizens of the world". Some of them work for the NYT apparently.

Let Snowden stay where he is. In thirty or forty years he should be able to even sing in Russian. Marry a nice Blovatskya and eat some sashlik and settle down. Why in the hell would a man like that ever want to live HERE?
Posted by: Spereting Tingle4064   2014-01-04 07:16  

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