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Legally Speaking

Apr. 1, 2014

The Trial of "Edward Snowman"

Imagine what would happen if an NSA contractor who exposed a massive, secretly run, government surveillance program didn't flee the country to avoid prosecution?

Say a well-placed contractor for the National Security Agency exposes a massive surveillance program by leaking hundreds of thousands of classified government documents to the press - but then doesn't flee the country to avoid prosecution. What would his criminal trial be like? For a special installment of our Legally Speaking interview series, we convened a panel of experts to imagine what might happen if such a case were brought to trial - and also to role-play th...

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