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Originally Posted by jyl
I read back at the time of his initial disclosures that he was charged, in absentia, with espionage counts, with the maximum sentence being life imprisonment. There was no mention of the death penalty. Which surprised me, but upon reflection the US govt was probably trying to avoid giving other countries, which do not have the death penalty, an excuse to shelter Snowden. Of course he went to Russia, which administers the death penalty without even bothering with a conviction.
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He was only charged with 18 U.S.C. 641 Theft of Government Property, 18 U.S.C. 793(d) Unauthorized Communication of National Defense Information, and 18 U.S.C. 798(a)(3) Willful Communication of Classified Intelligence Information to an Unauthorized Person; the two latter charges fall under the Espionage Act for “giving national defense information to someone without a security clearance and revealing classified information about communications intelligence,” That doesn't meant that it could not be more now.
The Simple Fact Is That By Legal Definition Edward Snowden Is a Criminal
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