[mpyne]

Though I do agree with your main point, nothing happened to Assange until Sweden asked to have him extradited to complete the charging process.

[jetti]

Which is what the US is already doing with Snowden. It shows what the UK would already do with Snowden if he did go to the UK.

[mpyne]

I'm a bit confused here, even Schneier said that Snowden undoubtedly broke the law, what did you think the U.S. was going to do, especially now that he is talking about leaking details of NSA hacking activities over to China? It's comparatively easy to grant a pardon after extradition for PRISM alone, he's making the rest more difficult.