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Originally Posted by crockett
Sure we need another Bradley Maning.. or I mean Erica Snowden.
Get real, they would lock him in a room somewhere out side the US and claim to not have him in custody. He would be black sited..
He did exactly what he had to do, because the govt can't be trusted with what they were and are doing and they would do anything to make sure he was never vidicated.
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you may very well be right. i'm basing my view on how the previous civilian whistleblowers have been tried and treated. manning was tried in military court under different laws and circumstances.
and personally i feel that, even if snowden did provide some sort of good from stealing and releasing those documents, he's still been charged with crimes that he is running from.
for both reasons, regardless of the potential penalties, he needs to man up, stop running and hiding, and face his accusers.