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With just 24 hours left in office, President Obama can still do the right thing by pardoning Edward Snowden.
We join Edward Snowden in applauding President Obama for freeing Chelsea Manning.
On January 13, 2017, the Pardon Snowden campaign delivered more than 1 million signatures to the White House.
Snowden’s disclosures sparked a critical global debate about government surveillance.
Edward Jay Epstein's book about Edward Snowden has an interesting relationship with reality.
We asked people what they think of Edward Snowden. Here are some of the nearly 3,000 responses we received.
The House Intelligence Committee report released today is full of falsehoods about Edward Snowden.
In honor of Human Rights Day, the Pardon Snowden campaign sought to illuminate why President Obama should bring Edward Snowden home.
Do you support Edward Snowden? If so, we'd love to hear from you!
Former Senate staffers who investigated government surveillance in the 1970s have called on President Obama and Attorney General Lynch to show leniency to Edward Snowden.
More than 30 prominent writers have published a letter to President Obama requesting that he pardon Edward Snowden.
President Obama long ago recognized that Snowden’s actions “will make us stronger.” He should also know that Snowden wouldn’t be able to say so to a jury.
Winners of Sweden's 'Alternative Nobel Prize' stand with fellow laureate Edward Snowden.
The fight is on – for the world we believe in, the right to dissent, and the duty to speak truth to power. Ed should be able to come home and fight alongside us.
One of the architects of Let's Encrypt, a new organization making tremendous strides in online security and privacy, speaks about Snowden's impact.
The Snowden revelations showed invasions of privacy, but the response has made all of us more secure.
With only 100 days remaining in the Obama presidency, it's time to make the case for Ed.
It’s been a very eventful week since we launched the Pardon Snowden campaign.
Wolverton calls on tech industry to lead fight for Snowden pardon.
While Edward Snowden's leaks damaged US national security, the disclosures also led to crucial surveillance reforms. A pardon would signal to the world the US has learned from its mistakes and respects internet freedom, privacy, and human rights.
In sparking needed reform at home, he performed a public service.
The former NSA contractor should be allowed to come home without criminal charges
Cases like Edward Snowden’s are precisely the reason the president’s constitutional pardon power exists.
There’s little truth in the five charges most often levelled at the whistleblower. Here’s why he deserves acclaim, not punishment.
Speaking from Russia to a session of the Athens Democracy Forum, the whistle-blower said he would maintain his focus on U.S. surveillance policies.
The whistle-blower opened America’s eyes and changed our conversation. President Obama should allow him to come home safely.
Edward Snowden let Americans evaluate the costs and benefits of omniscient domestic surveillance for themselves.
National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on Wednesday thanked supporters who launched a campaign for his pardon and said for the sake of democracy, future whistleblowers must not be silenced. Speaking by video link from Moscow, where he has been in exile since 2013, Snowden said that while the Founding Fathers created checks and balances to guard against government abuses, "whistleblowers, acting in the public interest, often at great risk to themselves, are another check on those abuses of power, especially through their collaboration with journalists." He said whistleblowing "is democracy's safeguard of last resort, the one on which we rely when all other checks and balances have failed and the public has no idea what's going on behind closed doors."
Bernie Sanders, Daniel Ellsberg, former members of the NSA and more weigh in on whether Obama should grant clemency to the divisive whistleblower
Supporters of National Security Agency data leaker Edward Snowden launched a campaign Wednesday urging President Obama to pardon Snowden from a possible 30-year prison sentence. Snowden has been exiled in Russia since making off with a trove of NSA files in 2013, and he spoke from there via video link to his supporters Wednesday. The campaign coincides with the release of an Oliver Stone biopic titled, Snowden.
Activists and lawyers from a host of human rights organizations launched a campaign today asking President Obama to issue a pardon to whistleblower Edward..
Timothy Edgar was director of privacy and civil liberties in Obama's National Security Staff. Here's his case for a pardon for Edward Snowden.
President Obama will grant his last pardons by January 20, 2017, his final day in office. With that in mind, and with Oliver Stone’s Edward Snowden biopic slated for release this fall, I sat down with Ben Wizner in July to ask about the NSA whistle-blower’s chances of coming home soon.
For the last three years, one month, and seven days, Edward Snowden has been living in exile from the United States.
For a man accused of espionage and effectively exiled in Russia, Edward Snowden is also, strangely, free.
Former Attorney General Eric Holder said the national debate launched by NSA leaker Edward Snowden should be factored into any eventual sentence he's given.
The European Parliament voted Thursday in support of a resolution that calls on member states to protect Edward Snowden from extradition.
I want to answer a burning question: What drove Snowden to leak hundreds of thousands of top-secret documents, revelations that have laid bare the vast scope of the government’s domestic surveillance programs?
In fact, it sets no precedent at all: His singular leak justifies special treatment.
Snowden gave classified information to journalists, even though he knew the likely consequences. That was an act of courage.
It is time for the United States to offer Mr. Snowden a plea bargain or some form of clemency that would allow him to return home, face at least substantially reduced punishment in light of his role as a whistle-blower, and have the hope of a life advocating for greater privacy and far stronger oversight of the runaway intelligence community.
Edward Snowden is a patriot. As a whistleblower of illegal government activity that was sanctioned and kept secret by the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government for years, he undertook great personal risk for the public good.
Is Edward Snowden, the twenty-nine-year-old N.S.A. whistle-blower who was last said to be hiding in Hong Kong awaiting his fate, a hero or a traitor? He is a hero.