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Gary Johnson: I’d Consider Pardoning Edward Snowden

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“I don't want to see him in prison.”

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Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson says he would consider pardoning NSA leaker Edward Snowden. "I don't want to see him in prison," Johnson told Newsmax, praising Snowden for revealing "information that we would not know about currently and that's the United States government spying on all of us as U.S. citizens." Johnson, who won the Libertarian Party's nomination last weekend, vows to capitalize on Hillary Clinton's and Donald Trump's historic unfavorability ratings in the general election.

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