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July 29, 2015

White House Rejects Petition for Snowden Pardon 2 Years Later 
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The White House has responded to a petition calling for the pardon of
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, after it received more than 100,000
signatures in 2013. That threshold is supposed to guarantee a response
from the White House, but the response took more than two years. On
Tuesday, Lisa Monaco, Obama's adviser on homeland security and
counterterrorism, rejected the call for a pardon and called for Snowden
to "accept the consequences of his actions."

 

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