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Whistleblower Edward Snowden Will Not Be Pardoned – US Intelligence Director

© East News / UPI Photo / eyevineDirector’s Career and Spider-Man Comics: First, National Inteligence’s Director Clapper, 74, is focusing on his own personality and is wondering if the fact that his start “in the intelligence business” and the publication of the first issue of Marvel’s Spider-Man in 1963 is connected. And answers “yes” to this. “I feel like I have a personal connection to the webslinger,” the veteran spy notes.
Director’s Career and Spider-Man Comics: First, National Inteligence’s Director Clapper, 74, is focusing on his own personality and is wondering if the fact that his start “in the intelligence business” and the publication of the first issue of Marvel’s Spider-Man in 1963 is connected. And answers “yes” to this. “I feel like I have a personal connection to the webslinger,” the veteran spy notes. - Sputnik International
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The Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, announced on Tuesday that he will not support a pardon for whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Edward Snowden greets the audience before he is honored with the Carl von Ossietzky medal by International League for Human Rights to during a video conference call after he received the award in Berlin December 14, 2014. - Sputnik International
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Clapper claimed that Snowden’s theft and release of National Security Agency documents exposing mass global and domestic surveillance programs damaged the nation’s ability to combat threats.

"I could understand what he did, if… what he exposed was limited to domestic surveillance…. But he exposed so much else that had absolutely nothing to do with domestic surveillance, where he has damaged our capability against foreign threats. He has taken away capabilities that were used to protect our troops in Afghanistan," Clapper told the Associated Press. "I don't think I could concur in offering him a pardon."

The release of the documents sparked a nationwide conversation about people’s right to privacy.

Human rights groups are urging President Obama to pardon Snowden, who is currently under asylum in Russia.

When asked if Clapper would change his mind if Snowden offered up information, perhaps from Russian sources, the intelligence official replied, “No.”

"The more time that goes on, there is actually, in my mind, less and less incentive for any kind of negotiated" plea agreement, Clapper said. "At least as far as the intelligence community is concerned, we're not in that camp."

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