Now, let's see what a popular presidential candidate says to the same issue...

"In my view," [Bernie] Sanders continued, "the interests of justice would be best served if our government granted him some form of clemency or a plea agreement that would spare him a long prison sentence or permanent exile from the country whose freedoms he cared enough about to risk his own freedom."

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Basically it whitewashes President Obama's attempt to renew the patriot act, and claims that Snowden can have a fair trial of his peers, if he returns to the US. Meanwhile hide the fact that the US basically exiled him, by revoking his passport. With a side-dish of fearmongering at the end.