While the editorial called the issue of a presidential pardon "complicated," it said "President Obama's answer should continue to be 'no.'" Related: Edward Snowden: Why Obama should pardon meSupporters of Snowden have since blasted the Post. Glenn Greenwald called the Post "the first-ever paper to explicitly editorialize for the criminal prosecution of its own paper's source." https://t.co/v88ZWNys6w — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) September 18, 2016So @WashingtonPost won a Pulitzer Prize for publishing info @Snowden provided, but now they won't stand up for him? Advocacy groups like Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the ACLU began a push last week asking Obama to pardon Snowden before the president leaves office.

Source: CNN September 18, 2016 22:30 UTC