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[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NSA being an angry little child with a napkin aside, I believe there was a legal hurdle to Snowden being pardoned: You need to be tried & sentenced before a presidential pardon can be applied, as far as I understood.

[–] Exatron@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Surprisingly, that actually isn't required. Nixon was pardoned without even being indicted.

hmm - interesting. I thought this topic was debated when the orange turd was thinking about pardoning itself preemptively...