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</div><p style="text-align:left"> <b>Edward Snowden is in more danger than ever. </b>Already over 30,000 of us have asked President Obama not to touch him. Yesterday the President publicly said, "I'm not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker."</p>
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The choice between secrecy and democracy rests with the fate of our whistleblowers.<div><br>
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<p style="text-align:left">Now that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is en route to Ecuador or elsewhere for political asylum, there is <b>a real danger the U.S. government will try to grab him</b> under the guise of law enforcement.<br>
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<p style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:small"><b>Background:</b></span><br>
<a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?key=-1&url_num=11&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Fworld%2F2013%2Fjun%2F06%2Fnsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order" target="_blank"><i>The Guardian: </i>NSA Collecting Phone Records of Millions</a><br>
<a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?key=-1&url_num=12&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Fworld%2F2013%2Fjun%2F06%2Fus-tech-giants-nsa-data" target="_blank"><i>The Guardian: </i>NSA Prism Program Taps in to User Data</a><br>
<a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?key=-1&url_num=13&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Fworld%2F2013%2Fjun%2F09%2Fedward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance" target="_blank"><i>The Guardian: </i>Edward Snowden: the Whistleblower</a><br>
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