Margaret Sullivan Disagrees With WaPo Editorial Board, Thinks Edward Snowden Deserves Pardon
"Snowden acted carefully, responsibly and courageously — and squarely in the public interest."
Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan may no longer be a public editor, but her latest column for the Post carries with it a sense of her former role, responding as it does to a Washington Post editorial from the weekend which argued against giving whistleblower Edward Snowden a pardon.
The basis of the Post’s argument is that while Snowden leaked useful, necessary information about an essentially extralegal government surveillance program, (information which earned the Post a Pultizer based on its reporting off the leaks), he also leaked information on another program that the Post called “both clearly legal and not clearly threatening to privacy,” as well as “leak[ing] details of basically defensible international intelligence operations.”
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