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Since National Security Agency Whistleblower Edward Snowden released classified nsa files to media oututlets that exexposed global mass surveillance operations by the u. S. And british governments. If snowden returned to the United States from russia where he now lives in exile, he would face charges of theft of state secrets and violating the espionage act and face at least 30 years in prison. This week his supporters launched a new call for president obama to offer snowden clemency, a plea agreement, or a pardrdon before the d d of his termrm. I am cfortable with the decisions i made. Bubut i dont think it i is up e toto decide thehe direction of e future of ouour society. I believeve p participatory muilateralal we should inintentionally trtry to removee outside influence of paparticulr individuals, and that includes myself. And that is why i mymyself do nt ask for a pardon. Amy today we will host a debate about whether snowden should be pardoned with h trevor timm, executive direct
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Administrations initial response to the attack and undermine its critic . Coming up, ill have exclusive interviews with the journalists who broke the interviews in the times and one of the republicans in congress who claimed there was indeed a coverup. Also, some of the key questions in 2014. Will obama care survive in its present form . And how much does the u. S. Have influence around the globe . And how much in exile for Edward Snowden . First the developments in the benghazi story. Joining me here in washington on our set is nbc chief News Foreign Affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell. And from vermont, New York Times cairo bureau chief. David, thank you for being here. It changes the narrative, it changes the report on benghazi, and let me lay out the context of what you conclude. Months of investigation, you write, by the New York Times centered on extensive interviews with libyans in benghazi who had direct knowledge of the attack there and its context, turned up no evidence tha
Perpetrators, and its just obvious from them and the people around them, theyre purely local people. Their pasts are known, their records are known, when they were in prison, who they hung out with in prison, who their associations are. There is just no chance that this was an al qaeda attack if, by al qaeda, you mean the organization founded by bin laden. Ive tried to understand some of the statements coming out of congress blaming al qaeda for this, and the only way they make sense to me is if youre using the term al qaeda a little differently. If youre using the term al qaeda to describe even a local group of islamist militants who may dislike democracy or have a grudge against the United States, if youre going to call anybody like that al qaeda, then okay. Certainly there were some antiwestern islamist militants involved in this attack. But to me thats a semantic difference and not a useful way of answering the original question, which is, did the group founded by Osama Bin Laden l