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Originally Posted by DWB
Now there is an unexpected turn. Curious to see if that happens or if it's just his dads coping mechanism. Snowden would have to be bat shit crazy to willingly return back to the USA knowing what they are going to do to him.
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while a part of me is grateful he is raking the usa over the coals on an international platform for snooping, he really has nothing to fear by coming home and facing his accusers.
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Thomas Andrews Drake (born 1957) is a former senior executive of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), a decorated United States Air Force and United States Navy veteran, and a whistleblower. In 2010 the government alleged that Drake 'mishandled' documents, one of the few such Espionage Act cases in U.S. history. Drake's defenders claim that he was instead being persecuted for challenging the Trailblazer Project. He is the 2011 recipient of the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling and co-recipient of the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) award.
On June 9, 2011, all 10 original charges against him were dropped. Drake rejected several deals because he refused to "plea bargain with the truth". He eventually pled to one misdemeanor count for exceeding authorized use of a computer; Jesselyn Radack of the Government Accountability Project, who helped represent him, called it an act of "civil disobedience."
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