I sure trust Assange at his word…
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And that’s the thing about being a traitor: by betraying your own country (wherever that may be), you’ve proven that you’re untrustworthy. Once Kim Philby was in the USSR, the Kremlin sure as hell wasn’t going to give him any sort of work that required trust, and basically pushed him aside.
As for Snowden, I have profoundly mixed feelings about him. On one side, overreach by the NSA. On the other, absconding with classified information. Should he be punished? I’m inclined to think that his being forced to live in Russia is punishment enough. If he comes back here and gets prosecuted, they should figure that into the sentencing as time served.
When your choices are a life sentence or execution with no allowable justification defense, time served doesn’t matter.
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I don’t see Snowden’s actions as traitorous, he definitely broke the law by taking classified information but it was because of the unchecked culture of spying on everyone. General Patreous leaked as much information as Snowden and he’s currently sitting pretty on Trump’s cabinet. His politics aligns with what the Republican party wants so it’s no big deal.
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