{"id":44324,"date":"2013-06-22T17:46:57","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T16:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/nsa-leaker-petition-hits-100000-signature-threshold-in-under-2-weeks\/44324\/"},"modified":"2013-06-22T17:46:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T16:46:57","slug":"nsa-leaker-petition-hits-100000-signature-threshold-in-under-2-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/nsa-leaker-petition-hits-100000-signature-threshold-in-under-2-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"NSA leaker petition hits 100,000-signature threshold in under 2 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cont-wp\">\n<div class=\"cont-wp-mid max_width\">\n<div>\n<p> <span class=\"time\">Published time: June 22, 2013 16:41<\/span> <\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/files\/news\/1f\/85\/90\/00\/snowden-white-house-petition.si.jpg\" alt=\"People carrying mobile phones walk past a banner supporting Edward Snowden, a former contractor at the National Security Agency (NSA), at Hong Kong's financial Central district June 18, 2013. (Reuters)\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>A White House petition demanding a full pardon for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has reached over 100,000 signatures since its creation on June 9, meaning the Obama administration has to review the petition\u2019s demands and issue a response.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/petitions.whitehouse.gov\/petition\/pardon-edward-snowden\/Dp03vGYD\">petition<\/a> states that: <em>\u201cEdward Snowden is a national hero and should be immediately issued a full, free, and absolute pardon for any crimes he has committed or may have committed related to blowing the whistle on secret NSA surveillance programs\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Within just two weeks of the petition being on line \u2014 half the time required to collect the 100,000 signatures necessary for a review \u2014 the petition managed to attract 101,350, and the number continues to grow by the second.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/files\/news\/1f\/85\/90\/00\/whp.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The White House insisted that it welcomes <em>\u201cappropriate debate\u201d<\/em> over the Patriot Act in the light of Snowden\u2019s exposure of NSA mass surveillance programs.<\/p>\n<p>However, it emerged on Saturday that Snowden had been charged with violating the Espionage Act.<\/p>\n<p>Snowden leaked top-secret documents to the Washington Post and the Guardian that demonstrated the existence of a US National Security Agency\u2019s extensive spying program called PRISM. The program was designed to collect information about digital communications allowing real-time online surveillance of US citizens.<\/p>\n<p>He is accused of <em>\u201ctheft of government property,\u201d<\/em> <em>\u201cunauthorized communication of national defense information,\u201d<\/em> and <em>\u201cwilful communication of classified communications intelligence information to an unauthorized person.\u201d<\/em> The US government has asked Hong Kong to detain him ahead of a possible move to extradite him.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted, Snowden could face up to 30 years behind bars.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service &mdash; if this is your content and you&#8217;re reading it on someone else&#8217;s site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org\/content-only\/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: &#8216;You Say What You Like, Because They Like What You Say&#8217; &#8211;  http:\/\/www.medialens.org\/index.php\/alerts\/alert-archive\/alerts-2013\/731-you-say-what-you-like-because-they-like-what-you-say.html<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on: <a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/usa\/snowden-white-house-petition-113\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"NSA leaker petition hits 100,000-signature threshold in under 2 weeks\">RT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published time: June 22, 2013 16:41 A White House petition demanding a full pardon for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has reached over 100,000 signatures since its creation on June 9, meaning the Obama administration has to review the petition\u2019s demands and issue a response. The petition states that: \u201cEdward Snowden is a national hero and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-44324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}