Whistleblower Edward Snowden Vindicated as 9th Circuit Rules NSA Spying on Americans’ Phones is Illegal – Will Trump Pardon Him?

This week the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program which was exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013 is unlawful, and the court even credited Mr. Snowden for exposing it. Snowden tweeted: "Seven years ago, as the news declared I was being charged as a criminal for speaking the truth, I never imagined that I would live to see our courts condemn the NSA's activities as unlawful and in the same ruling credit me for exposing them. And yet that day has arrived." So will President Trump now pardon him? President Trump ran on a platform to "drain the swamp" but has mostly been mired in political quagmires surrounding the U.S. Intelligence Agencies. A full pardon to Snowden with a security detail assigned to keep him alive so that he could testify in court, could go a long way to finally seeing some justice in the tyrannical take-over of America which started just post-911 and is now at full speed with the COVID tyrannical power grabs.