‘There are a lot of people that think that he is not being treated fairly. I mean, I hear that,’ the president said in an interview with the New York Post.
President Donald Trump said Saturday he will take a strong look at pardoning NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, representing a sharp turnaround from the president who once called him a “traitor.”... [+]Photo by Pedro Fiúza/NurPhoto via Getty Images“I’m going to take a look at that very strongly,” Trump said during a press briefing Saturday.
Trump said the issue split his staff: “Many people think he should be somehow treated differently, and other people think he did very bad things.” The president’s willingness to even consider a pardon leagues away from his hardline stance on the issue in 2013 before he was president, when heSnowden himself weighed in, saying, “the last time we heard a White House considering a pardon was 2016, when the very same Attorney General who once charged me conceded that, on balance, my work in exposing the NSA's unconstitutional system of mass surveillance had been ‘a public service.
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