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Every Major Presidential Candidate Wants To Prosecute Edward Snowden

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BuzzFeed - Joe Raedle / Getty Images LAS VEGAS — There is a consensus among all the major politicians running for president in America, regardless of their party: Edward Snowden, they all say, deserves to face federal prosecutors for illegally leaking vast troves detailed information about government surveillance programs to the press. That puts them at odds with privacy activists who have called for Snowden to get immunity for his crimes, which led to ongoing conversations about oversight of domestic surveillance and changes to the National Security Administration. The ACLU has called on President Obama to give Snowden immunity, allowing him to return to the United States from Russia without facing charges. The idea has received little interest from the White House, and, after Tuesday's Democratic presidential debate here, essentially zero interest on the presidential campaign trail. There were some nuanced differences between how the various candidates on stage approached Snowde

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