Power is wasted if you don’t use it, especially when exercising your power will protect your friends and hamstring your enemies. The Democrats get that. The last four years have demonstrated that they get how to use power via their obnoxious and evil witch hunts targeting the associates of the president, not least of all General Mike Flynn. Trump used his power and pardoned Flynn. That’s a good start. Trump should now pardon everybody.
President Donald Trump should pardon Edward Snowden.
Who?
I know, it’s embarrassing — Assange, Manning, Snowden… Who did what?
I got them confused before I researched this topic. National security isn’t my beat. I finally educated myself this month because I got a chance to interview Snowden, the CIA/NSA employee who told the world that our government spied on us but lied to Congress about it.
Fourteen years ago, when Snowden worked for the CIA, and then the NSA, he signed agreements saying he would not talk about what he did. I confronted him about breaking his promise.
“What changed me,” he answers, “was the realization that what our government actually does was very different than the public representation of it.”
What a coincidence. I happened to watch Oliver Stone’s “Snowden” last night. Extremely well done and sobering movie. The fact that it did only $21 million at the box office is a tribute to the Deep State and the MSM propaganda machines which have convinced the majority of ignorant Americans that Snowden is a traitor and endangered the national security of the country.
Nothing but bullshit. He proved that Clapper lied to Congress. Why is that fucker not in prison? He revealed to the whole world that everything they say, type, or record is being monitored by their government and will be used against them whenever the Deep State chooses.
Interestingly, the movie has an actual snippet of Trump saying Snowden should be executed. Assange and Snowden did more for the people of this world than any two men of the 20th & 21st century. The failure of people to support their release is a black mark for humanity. The Deep State has become bolder since Snowden’s revelations, basically saying “what the fuck are you going to do about it?”
Filmmaker Oliver Stone has joined the growing chorus of activists calling for President Trump to pardon Julian Assange and Edward Snowden – without whom we wouldn’t know about intrusive government surveillance programs, the United States’ aggressive drone strike program, or that Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign manager and his brother are apparently into ‘spirit cooking‘ with a satanic performance artist.
According to Stone, pardoning the pair of whistleblowers “will take the edge off his pardons for his family & loyalists by being unselfish and not self-serving. And at the least, confound his many critics — as well as future historians.”
Second, “It will drive his enemies in #DeepState and #Media absolutely nuts!”
“A pardon of @Snowden and #Assange would be a great shock to this world, and reflect well on @realDonaldTrump,” wrote Stone in a Thursday tweet. “Despite all the negatives he’s created, it will be seen as a purely merciful action. It will not be forgotten.”
Last week President Trump granted a “full pardon” to Gen. Michael Flynn, his first National Security Advisor. In a White House statement announcing the pardon, the Administration pointed out that the relentless pursuit of Flynn was a partisan effort to overturn the results of the 2016 election.
The pursuit of Flynn was spearheaded by people who refused to accept the results of the 2016 election and worked to undermine the peaceful transfer of power, said the White House. These same people are the ones accusing Trump of undermining the election by challenging what appears to be serious voting irregularities in the 2020 presidential election.
