The Edward Snowden affair could experience a new twist. US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he would "take a very serious look" at a possible pardon from the former US intelligence employee charged with espionage.
Q: "Do you want to give Edward Snowden a pardon and bring him back?"
President Trump: "I'm going to look at it." pic.twitter.com/Lb75QVaGVb
Trump radically changes line
This position is a real change on the part of the tenant of the White House. During the 2016 presidential campaign, he called Snowden a "total traitor" and promised to "treat him harshly" if elected. "A lot of people think he should be treated differently and other people think he did some very bad things," the president now says of the one who is often seen as a whistleblower.
Edward Snowden is a former CIA employee and ex-contractor of the NSA intelligence agency exiled in Russia since he denounced in 2013 the massive surveillance of communications and the Internet in the United States.
Will the former computer scientist be able to return to his country? Nothing has yet been done. He remains criminally charged in the United States with espionage and theft of state secrets. Edward Snowden faces up to 30 years in prison.
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