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In reply to the discussion: The Rude Pundit: Grappling with Edward Snowden, Part 1: Thoreau Would Be Proud [View all]gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Throwing one's body into the gears.
It's also instructive, and it should not be missed, that The Rude Pundit says, "the idea of coming back to the United States from Russia to 'face the music' is ludicrous since he wouldn't be afforded the opportunity to plead his actual case." Any prosecution of Snowden would be delayed for years while the government circumscribed the case against him - in collaboration with the judge hearing the case - to very clearly defined actions. The idea that Snowden would be allowed to "make his case" as Secretary Kerry so blithely intoned yesterday, is a pipe dream more fitting to Fantasyland than any serious discussion. And I believe Kerry knows this, which makes his statement doubly disingenuous. Any presentation of motive or governmental wrongdoing in a criminal trial of Snowden would be ruled strictly out of bounds, and he would never have the chance to make his case.