No clemency for Edward Snowden

The White House and the leaders of the congressional intelligence committees have rejected former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden’s plea for clemency. “Mr. Snowden violated US law,” White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer said Sunday about the former NSA contractor who has temporary asylum in Russia. “He should return to the U.S. and face justice.” In a letter he handed to a German politician Friday, Snowden wrote ’’Speaking the truth is not a crime.”