The importance of whistleblowers Assange and Snowden.
Whistleblowers play a large part in a free society. Edward Snowden sacrificed his ability to live in the U.S. to alert us to the massive government spying apparatus being used against U.S. citizens. An apparatus that has since been used by the deep state to spy on a Presidential Campaign and a sitting President. Julian Assange published documents given to him that showed corruption of world leaders, and it has so far cost him 10 years of his life. Currently he is being held because the United States deep state wants to try him for simply publishing documents given to him, no different then what the NY Times did with the Pentagon papers during the Vietnam War. Whistle blowers uncovered the corruption of the United Auto Workers Union (UAW) that resulted in Federal Corruption charges. Whistleblowers pay a high price to let the rest of us know when we are being taken advantage of by people in power. That is why I call on President Trump to pardon Edward Snowden and Julian Assange.