President Barack Obama wants to see Edward Snowden clapped in irons and bound to the U.S. for a criminal trial. Two Norwegian politicians have a different fate in mind for Snowden: the Nobel Peace Prize.
Norwegian parliamentarians Snorre Valen and Baard Vegar Solhjell nominated Snowden for the award — the same honor Obama himself won in 2009 — for his disclosures about National Security Agency spying.
I want to be as clear as I possibly can about this: Edward Snowden should absolutely win the Nobel Peace Prize. He is a hero. He should be celebrated as such. Full stop.
I agree that Snowden is a hero and should be celebrated. But please deliver our acclaimed leakers with a grain of salt when propping them up on the pillar of progressive liberalism:
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116253/…
If one Peace prize winner snuffs the other out, does that make them King Peacemonger?
As long as he accepts it in prison.