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Townhall: Should Snowden Pardon President Obama?

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Post date September 18, 2016
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Oliver Stone’s movie is in the theaters now (see yesterday’s video page). But really, you were waiting for Paul Jacob’s take, weren’t you? Click on over to Townhall, then come back here because, well, this is where you belong.

Pardon Snowden
The Guardian: Edward Snowden makes ‘moral’ case for presidential pardon
Electronic Freedom Foundation: Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying
The Guardian: The NSA Files
New York Times: Judge Deals a Blow to N.S.A. Data Collection Program
Wall Street Journal: Obama’s Remarks on NSA Controversy
House Intelligence Committee: Executive Summary of Review of the Unauthorized Disclosures of Former National Security Agency Contractor Edward Snowden
The Century Foundation: The House Intelligence Committee’s Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad Snowden Report
NBC News: Why Edward Snowden Won’t Face Charges
Democracy Now!: Assange Responds to Hillary – Fair Trial for Snowden “Not Possible”
Democracy Now!: Obama’s War on Whistleblowers
Washington’s Blog: The Government is Spying on Us . . .
Common Sense: Snowden Film Festival

Thought

Algernon Blackwood

Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.

Today

Washington

On September 18, 1793, George Washington laid the cornerstone of the Capitol building.

It has grown, since.

On September 18, 1838, Richard Cobden established the Anti-Corn Law League, which proceeded to bring free trade to Britain.

video

Video: Pardon the Man Already (A Snowden Festival)

Post author By Redactor
Post date September 17, 2016
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ReasonTV interviews Trevor Timm regarding Edward Snowden:

Now, in theaters (the weekend premiere was yesterday; today’s the second day):

News conference for the new effort to gain a pardon from Obama:

https://youtu.be/vB0qg4XKWno

Ed Snowden begins to speak at 16:37 of the above video. Here is just the Snowden portion:

Previous to the current biopic, there was Citizenfour, winner the Academy Award for Best Documentary:

Full film (two hours):

https://youtu.be/h9RI78fRWC4

Terminal F, another documentary:

Living Liberty 2016 Forum — Edward Snowden Live from Russia:

https://youtu.be/ZuwW3VhIRkM

Real Time with Bill Maher with filmmaker Laura Poitras:

Real Time with Bill Maher featuring Glenn Greenwald:

https://youtu.be/wjEEM1XCfTk

HBO’s State of Surveillance with Edward Snowden:

Thought

Willa Cather

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

Today

U. S. Constitution

On September 17, 1787, the Constitution of the United States was signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In 1849 on this same day in September, Harriet Tubman escaped to freedom in Philadelphia, but soon returned to Maryland to rescue her family. She made at least 13 trips into the slave-owning South to liberate more than 70 slaves before the Civil War (in which she served as a spy for the North).

Today

Independence Days

September 16 marks the Independence Days for Mexico (celebrating the declaration of independence from Spain in 1810) and Papua New Guinea (commemorating the exit from Australia in 1975).

Thought

Graham Greene

In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.

Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana (1958).

Thought

John C. Calhoun

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

John Caldwell Calhoun, speech in the U. S. Senate (1848). Calhoun’s image (above), a detail from a portrait by George Peter Alexander Healy.

Today

After Porto

On September 15, 1820, an uprising occured in Lisbon, Portugal, following similar insurrection in Porto the previous month. This was no bloodthirsty mob, but, instead, a popular demand for constitutional government. Unfortunately, the country was beset with imperial and monarchical problems for some time to come.

The United Nations established September 15 as International Day of Democracy, in 2007. An Independence Day is celebrated on this date in Guatemala (a Patriotic Day), El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, commemorating independence from Spain in 1821.