President Trump has been floating a potential pardon for Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency contractor who in 2013 leaked troves of secret documents to friendly media and took asylum in Moscow. Perhaps the President thinks he would be hitting back at an intelligence bureaucracy that tried to kneecap him. In fact he would be sanctioning further intelligence abuses. Like the career officials who have undermined the Trump Administration with leaks and investigations, Mr. Snowden was never elected. Yet he decided his...

Source: Wall Street Journal August 18, 2020 23:25 UTC