[fucking_tragedy]

Are you aware of the government using Snowden's relatives as collateral in order to get him to return to the US? Pretty sure they've been safe this whole time.

[Dylan16807]

The people that know him are protected. And that is definitely worth noting. But I'm far less confident that he would be treated fairly.

[archgoon]

> But I'm far less confident that he would be treated fairly.

Maybe, maybe not, but there is precedence in America for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg

> Daniel Ellsberg... precipitated a national political

> controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers,

> a top-secret Pentagon study of the U.S. government decision-

> making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York

> Times and other newspapers.

>

> On January 3, 1973, Ellsberg was charged under the Espionage

> Act of 1917 along with other charges of theft and conspiracy,

> carrying a total maximum sentence of 115 years. Due to

> governmental misconduct and illegal evidence-gathering,

> and the defense by Leonard Boudin and Harvard Law School

> professor Charles Nesson, Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr.

> dismissed all charges against Ellsberg on May 11, 1973.

[sbov]

Not only that, from what I can tell his girlfriend travels between Russia and the US to visit him.