In a tweet encouraging her own video message from Oct. 6, the retiring Hawaii Democrat proposed that Trump use his presidential pardoning power to grant clemency to both men, each of whom has been accused under the Espionage Act of 1917.
The recent presidential pardon of former national security adviser Michael Flynn likely inspired Gabbard’s renewed attempts, the report said. Flynn declared guilty of misleading the FBI in 2017 but later sought to withdraw that plea.
"Since you're giving pardons to people, please consider pardoning those who, at great personal sacrifice, exposed the deception and criminality of those in the deep state," Gabbard tweeted on Thursday, tagging President Trump.
In her post from more than a month ago, which included a video of her discussing Assange and Snowden, Gabbard stated, "Brave whistleblowers exposing lies & illegal actions in our government must be protected. Join me and urge Congress: Pass my bipartisan legislation (HRes1162, HRes1175, HR8452) calling for charges against @snowden & Assange to be dropped & to reform the Espionage Act."
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The bipartisan legislation as she said in the video was co-sponsored by the U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who recently said that Trump should pardon himself as he leaves office.
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Snowden was granted asylum in Russia in 2013 and has been there ever since after leaking extremely classified information about the NSA's mass surveillance program throughout the time he was a CIA employee and subcontractor.
Assange, meanwhile, who ran WikiLeaks, published hacked documents from the Democratic National Committee in 2016. Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation later accused 12 Russian intelligence officers of the hacking and of working with WikiLeaks. Assange has denied Russia was the origin of the documents.
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In the video interview published on Wednesday, Snowden spoke about a range of issues, among them, the state of the internet today and how it compares to its first days.
Snowden was asked to recall what the internet was like in its early days, for the benefit of those who are too young to remember it and only know it the way it is today – characterized by centralization, and corporate Big Tech control and censorship.
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Snowden talked about what made the web exciting in the early days, when it was creative and cooperative, though also decentralized by most websites being built by individuals. These were poor and not particularly complex but “original and human” – a value that was lost as the internet grew more and more centralized with the introduction of big corporate and commercial players.
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