Fifteen former staff members of a Watergate-era intelligence watchdog committee have jointly written to President Barack Obama and Attorney General Loretta Lynch urging them to extend leniency to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Signed by a group of members of the Church committee, a special Senate body that investigated illegal governmental operations by the CIA and other intelligence agencies in the 1970s, the letter calls on Obama to resolve the “Snowden matter” and end his “untenable exile in Russia, which benefits nobody”.
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: International Business Times
