# How Should the US Deal with Wikileaks and Snowden?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 28, 2016, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-the-us-deal-with-wikileaks-and-snowden/761121 "2016-07-28T17:04:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-the-us-deal-with-wikileaks-and-snowden/761121/81 "2016-08-18T15:36:55Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> I’m generally opposed to the idea of extra-legal punishments. The American government should continue its current course of seeking to extradite Assange and Snowden back to the United States so they can be legally tried and (if convicted) imprisoned.

Treason and espionage are capital offenses.

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