Do Americans think Edward Snowden should be pardoned?

In 2013 Snowden acted as a whistleblower and leaked highly classified information from the NSA in 2013 when he was a Central Intelligence Agency employee. This leaked information was very revealing on how rights were being violated.

Recently, Donald Trump has not ruled out a pardon for Edward Snowden. Currently, Snowden is exiled in Russia.

Using the ARO / HPC Beach User Sentiment crawl program. We found 376,558 user posts, videos, and tweets to determine online user sentiment on this topic.
Below are the results:



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