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Bahamut on Dec 19, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: 'Pardon Snowden,' one tech exec tells Obama, repor...

Just a note, the president cannot pardon someone who has not been convicted yet I believe.

nknighthb on Dec 19, 2013 | [–]

Have you heard of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford? What about Jimmy Carter and the Vietnam draft evasion pardons?

dllthomas on Dec 19, 2013 | [–]

That is incorrect.

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