In Their Own Words -- Timm

— “[I]f Snowden is really a whistleblower, he should come back and tell his story in a court and let a jury decide. Anyone who says this has a fundamental misunderstanding about how leak trials work.”

Trevor Timm, Executive Director of Freedom of the Press Foundation, on why Snowden would not receive a fair trial under the Espionage Act, “a draconian World War I-era statute that was originally written to go after people who sell U.S. secrets to foreign governments for profit — not people who give the American people information in the public interest for free.” Click here for more.

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