re: #427 Targetpractice

Yes, we’ve heard the whole bit before, about how Snowden had no choice but to flee because he could be jailed or *gasp!* executed, despite there not being an execution of a spy in decades. And do tell, do you believe that if you break the law for the “right reasons,” that you shouldn’t have to face any penalties?

Not so incidentally, the case for charging Snowden with espionage got much stronger when he fled the US to be debriefed in China and Russia.

If he’d stayed in the US, the Feds would have needed to prove a link to a foreign power to make an espionage charge stick.