Nah, he wouldn’t be disappeared, but it would be just as bad. The proposed action by the DoJ is a closed door proceeding where he would be unable to make a full defense that he was acting in the public good. This is completely unacceptable and makes a mockery of due process.
I lay everything that has happened with Snowden at the feet of the US government. They stranded Snowden in an authoritarian country that is a rival of the US, then had the gall to criticize him for trying to make a life there. That was after he was pushed into going to the media because it was clear that the normal whistleblower channels were full of rubber stampers.
As USA projects onto China and Russia, he will be “disappeared”. It will happen the same way kids are in ICE camps.
Nah, he wouldn’t be disappeared, but it would be just as bad. The proposed action by the DoJ is a closed door proceeding where he would be unable to make a full defense that he was acting in the public good. This is completely unacceptable and makes a mockery of due process.
I lay everything that has happened with Snowden at the feet of the US government. They stranded Snowden in an authoritarian country that is a rival of the US, then had the gall to criticize him for trying to make a life there. That was after he was pushed into going to the media because it was clear that the normal whistleblower channels were full of rubber stampers.
Assange is effectively disappeared from society. He is not seeing the light of the day outside his cell ever again. Snowden is smarter.