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US President Donald Trump said at a recent press conference that he would consider forgiving Edward Snowden and allowing him to return home from his 7-year "exile" in Russia.
Trump's comment
According to the Reuters report, the US president said he "will start looking into" a possible forgiveness for the whistleblower, who has been living in exile in Russia since he left his home country in 2013. The news spread. After President Trump said in a post that "a lot of people" think Snowden is not being treated fairly.
Edward Snowden was also an advocate for cryptocurrencies. Snowden is responsible for disseminating the details of several top-secret mass surveillance programs on ordinary citizens by the US and UK governments via the National Security Agency (NSA).
The White House had considered forgiving Snowden in 2016
Edward Snowden responded to Trump's claims tweet that “the last time we heard the White House consider a pardon was in 2016, when the same attorney general who once accused me admitted that, on balance, my work in exposing the unconstitutionality of the NSA's mass surveillance system it had been "a public service".
Edward Snowden still faces US federal government charges of violating the Espionage Act of 1917 and theft of government property. If the US president were to apply pardon to this case, Snowden would be the 26th person Trump has forgiven since he took office in January 2017.
Edward Snowden continues to talk about online privacy and the use of encryption since his exile
The former CIA technician and consultant to the National Security Agency continued to express his views on Bitcoin and his concerns about the blockchain defined as "devastatingly public" since his exile. The servers used by Snowden in 2013 to disclose thousands of documents to reporters were reportedly paid for using Bitcoin.
Also in March, during the historic recession in which the price of Bitcoin fell to $ 3.782, the whistleblower had tweeted that he would like to take advantage of the sudden drop to buy the well-known cryptocurrency.
Previously, Snowden had hinted that he could turn to cryptography to circumvent the US government's attempt to limit his access to profits from the publication of his book, Permanent Record. Snowden still continues to criticize the government for online privacy policies.
