{"id":20705,"date":"2013-07-16T05:47:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T13:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=20705"},"modified":"2013-07-16T05:47:59","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T13:47:59","slug":"edward-snowden-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/16\/edward-snowden-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stefan Svallfors, a\u00a0Swedish professor on the Nobel Committee, has nominated<\/a> NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for a Nobel Peace Prize.\u00a0Svallfors says Snowden deserves it due to his “heroic effort,” and notes that it would help recover the prize’s “disrepute” following the “hasty and ill-conceived” decision to award it to Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

An excerpt from\u00a0Svallfors’s letter:<\/p>\n

Edward Snowden has – in a heroic effort at great personal cost – revealed the existence and extent of the surveillance, the U.S. government devotes electronic communications worldwide. By putting light on this monitoring program – conducted in contravention of national laws and international agreements – Edward Snowden has helped to make the world a little bit better and safer.<\/p>\n

The decision to award the 2013 prize to Edward Snowden would – in addition to being well justified in itself – also help to save the Nobel Peace Prize from the disrepute that incurred by the hasty and ill-conceived decision to award U.S. President Barack Obama 2009 award.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Via POLITICO<\/a>, here’s WikiLeaks on the nomination:<\/p>\n

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Now Manning, Assange and Snowden have all been formally nominated for the Nobel.<\/p>\n

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 15, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n