NGL it would be pretty funny if Snowden gets to return to the west but we hadn't actually fixed any of the stuff he brought forward in the meantime. Not sure what I would do in his shoes... I guess a pardon is pretty impossible for future presidents to get around, TBF

I'd be worried about the Russians putting him in jail if the US pardoned him.

Oh that’s going to be good if it happens.

Everyone will celebrate Trump’s good deed while he funnels more government money to companies like Palantir to do things similar to PRISM.

private intelligence still has a few ways to go before whistleblowers don't have all their rights stripped by the state

The right gets to power and the first thing it does is to pardon its friends and allies.

The left goes into power and does basically nothing.

And then we wonder why one side is winning.

For someone that likes to take top secret documents and share them with unauthorized people, Snowden sounds perfect for this guy to pardon