HLMenckenFan@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoBe like Edward Snowdenlemmy.worldimagemessage-square99fedilinkarrow-up11.6Karrow-down195
arrow-up11.51Karrow-down1imageBe like Edward Snowdenlemmy.worldHLMenckenFan@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square99fedilink
minus-squareraspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·2 years agoNSA being an angry little child with a napkin aside, I believe there was a legal hurdle to Snowden being pardoned: You need to be tried & sentenced before a presidential pardon can be applied, as far as I understood.
minus-squareExatron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·2 years agoSurprisingly, that actually isn’t required. Nixon was pardoned without even being indicted.
minus-squareraspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agohmm - interesting. I thought this topic was debated when the orange turd was thinking about pardoning itself preemptively…
NSA being an angry little child with a napkin aside, I believe there was a legal hurdle to Snowden being pardoned: You need to be tried & sentenced before a presidential pardon can be applied, as far as I understood.
Surprisingly, that actually isn’t required. Nixon was pardoned without even being indicted.
hmm - interesting. I thought this topic was debated when the orange turd was thinking about pardoning itself preemptively…