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6/22/2013 3:17:42 PM
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NSA leaker charged with espionage.
[url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/22/snowden-espionage_n_3482816.html]Article[/url]
[quote]Edward Snowden, the former government contractor who says he revealed that the National Security Agency collects Americans' phone records and Internet data from U.S. communication companies, now faces charges of espionage and theft of government property.
Snowden is believed to be in Hong Kong, which could complicate efforts to bring him to a U.S. federal court to answer charges that he engaged in unauthorized communication of national defense information and willful communication of classified communications intelligence information.
In addition to those charges, both brought under the Espionage Act, the government charged Snowden with theft of government property. Each crime carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
The one-page criminal complaint against Snowden was unsealed Friday in federal court in Alexandria, Va., part of the Eastern District of Virginia where his former employer, government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, is headquartered, in McLean.
The complaint is dated June 14, five days after Snowden's name first surfaced as the person who had leaked to the news media that the NSA, in two highly classified surveillance programs, gathered telephone and Internet records to ferret out terror plots.[/quote]
It's pretty likely that Snowden will be found guilty if he is brought back here. He did confess on national TV.
My question is, do you think that Hong Kong should turn him over? Does it make more sense from their standpoint for them to keep him?
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He should be punished Bunch of phags view him as a hero or some shit
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In America, the average time in prison spent for raype is around 5-10 years. This guy is being punished worse than a rapist would for letting the public know the questionable shit they're doing. 'MURIKA
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Snowden specifically moved to Hong Kong because of the particular difficulty found in the extradition treaty. The one that the U.S. has with Hong Kong is very ambiguous, and generally means there has to have a conversation over the criminal activity at hand between the U.S. and Hong Kong officials. From there, they both have to decide if the crime at hand is worth the extradition, and this will be hard for the U.S. to win quickly since it was primarily set in place for activities "such as drug trafficking, terrorism and money laundering." ([url=http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CRPT-105erpt2/html/CRPT-105erpt2.htm]Source: U.S. TIAS Hong Kong Extradition Treaty.[/url]) Of course, the U.S. will make the claim that he fled to Hong Kong with the express intent of exploiting this loophole, at which point it would be hard for HK to deny extradition. But this buys him time to build a case, and to let the public form their opinions and hopefully make sway of how the court case plays out.
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"Espionage" is such a delicious word I wouldn't mind being charged with it.
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If he comes back to America he's as good as dead. It wouldn't be a good idea for Hong Kong to keep him either even if they could get more things from him. Even worse is that the media blew this whole thing way out of proportion. Like there's not a single developed country that doesn't have something like the NSA. Yeah sure
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He needs to be in jail for life.
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[quote]NSA leaker charged with espionage.[/quote] Am I the only one who finds this extremely ironic?
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Story was posted here yesterday, but oh well. Anyway, he should be kept out of the United States. I support what he did.
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Where's NSA Monitor?
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So, the guy exposed the government for spying on millions of Americans, and they charge him with... spying? That's pretty odd.
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Snowden should have taken Pudin's offer and hid out in Russia.
