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It鈥檚 been a very eventful week since we launched the Pardon Snowden campaign.

Since then, people worldwide have turned their attention back to the most famous whistleblower of our generation. Dozens of news and opinion pieces have considered his role in exposing the contours of U.S. mass surveillance, and moviegoers have watched Joseph Gordon-Levitt portray him in an based on his life.

The 老澳门开奖结果, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch launched the Pardon Snowden campaign with a press conference last Wednesday, with Ed himself appearing via live video. 鈥淣ever in my wildest dreams would I have imagined, three years ago, such an outpouring of solidarity," he said in profuse thanks to his supporters.

Watch his full statement:

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The launch of the campaign sparked a deluge of commentary, much of it joining the call for pardon or urging leniency in light of Snowden's contributions. We鈥檝e seen the opinion pages of just about every major paper in the country weigh in, with pro-pardon contributions in the , , the , (), and .

Meanwhile, in a cynical move aimed at poisoning an honest discussion about Snowden鈥檚 case, the House Intelligence Committee 鈥� perhaps fearing the swell of support building behind the whistleblower 鈥� sent President Obama a letter arguing against a pardon. The released with the letter, a three-page executive summary of a classified report, was rife with blatant falsehoods about Snowden鈥檚 medical, academic, and professional history 鈥� falsehoods easily disproved. That members of Congress would peddle such transparent misrepresentations suggests a vexing disrespect for the truth and the public they purport to represent.

The report earned a from Barton Gellman, the veteran journalist who led the Washington Post鈥檚 reporting on the Snowden disclosures. His response was a gratifying read for Snowden鈥檚 many supporters, but also a sad confirmation of the deeply rooted failings of the institutions entrusted with overseeing our intelligence agencies.

And we haven鈥檛 even gotten to last weekend, when the Washington Post printed an arguing against pardon. The Post, you鈥檒l remember, received the Snowden documents through Gellman, and the paper earned the Pulitzer Prize for public service for its reporting on the disclosures. The irony of the editorial board throwing its paper鈥檚 source under the bus after reaping such benefits from him wasn鈥檛 lost on anyone. Glenn Greenwald quickly published a blistering response on , and the Washington Post itself followed up with two powerful op-eds in favor of pardon 鈥� one by media columnist (and former New York Times public editor) Margaret Sullivan, the other by , publisher and editor of the Nation. In Sullivan鈥檚 words:

Snowden acted carefully, responsibly and courageously 鈥� and squarely in the public interest. The Post鈥檚 executive editor, Martin Baron, wrote this in 2014 about the revelations whose publication in The Post he championed: 鈥淚n constructing a surveillance system of breathtaking scope and intrusiveness, our government also sharply eroded individual privacy. All of this was done in secret, without public debate, and with clear weaknesses in oversight.鈥�

Five days later, the hubbub over the editorial doesn鈥檛 show signs of letting up.

Elsewhere, discussions around other aspects of the Snowden disclosures are in full swing 鈥� many of them positive, though some have trotted out tired misconceptions about what he revealed to the public (personally, nothing) and whether he could have effected change by going through internal channels (he couldn鈥檛). Trevor Timm . We鈥檙e also seeing more useful conversations 鈥� like, for example, those making the point that people overseas have rights, too. (See strong arguments from , and .)

All that in just over one week.

But let鈥檚 not forget what this is all about. Obama has 118 days to bring home the whistleblower whose actions prompted all this debate 鈥� about the democratic limits of mass surveillance, the role of the press, and our most fundamental rights. .