Supporters of the Campaign to Pardon Edward Snowden
We are some of the lawyers, policymakers, technologists, civil rights advocates, artists, and cryptographers who support a pardon for Snowden.
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Supporters
Steve Wozniak
Co-Founder, Apple
George Soros
Founder and Chair of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Foundations
Jack Dorsey
Co-Founder and CEO, Twitter and Square
Daniel Ellsberg
Pentagon Papers Whistleblower
Timothy Edgar
Former Director of Privacy and Civil Liberties, White House National Security Staff; Senior Fellow, Watson Institute, Brown University
Bruce Ackerman
Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University
Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor of the World Wide Web
Valerie Plame
Former Covert CIA Operations Officer
Ron Rivest
Cryptographer; Founder, RSA Data Security; Institute Professor at MIT
Anthony Romero
Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union
Salil Shetty
Secretary General, Amnesty International
John Napier Tye
Former State Department Official
Danny Glover
Actor, Producer
Lawrence Lessig
Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School
Patricia Arquette
Academy Award-winning Actress
Daniel Radcliffe
Actor
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Actress
Ken Roth
Executive Director, Human Rights Watch
Jimmy Wales
Founder, Wikipedia
Susan Sarandon
Actress
Teju Cole
Writer
Linda Sarsour
Co-founder, MPowerChange.org
John Cusack
Actor
Alan Rusbridger
Former Editor-in-Chief, The Guardian
Eve Ensler
Playwright
Alex Gibney
Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker
Laura Poitras
Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker
Alex Soros
Founder of The Alexander Soros Foundation
Erwin Chermerinsky
Dean of the University of California, Irvine, School of Law
Mark Ruffalo
Actor
Melvin Goodman
Former Division Chief and Senior Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency; Author of the Forthcoming "Whistleblower at the CIA: An Insider's Account of the Politics of Intelligence"
Joyce Carol Oates
Writer
Baratunde Thurston
Comedian, Writer, and Cultural Critic
Barry Eisler
Former CIA officer; best-selling author
Jeffrey Sachs
PhD, University Professor, Columbia University
Esther Dyson
Chairman, HICCup
Ann Cavoukian
Three-Term Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada
Glenn Greenwald
Founding Editor, The Intercept
Rosie O'Donnell
Actress, Comedian, and Author
Sophie in 't Veld
Member of the European Parliament
Malkia Cyril
Executive Director, Center for Media Justice
Peter Saarsgaard
Actor
Birgitta Jonsdottir
Member of the Icelandic Parliament
Brewster Kahle
Founder, Internet Archive
Michael Moore
Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker
Peter Gabriel
Musician
Matthew Green
Cryptographer and Security Technologist, Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute
Joshua Bloch
CMU professor of computer science, former Google Chief Java Architect, author of "Effective Java"
Christopher H. Pyle
Consultant to the Church Committee; Professor of Law and Politics, Mount Holyoke College
Gerbenjan Gerbrandy
Member of the European Parliament
Marietje Schaake
Member of the European Parliament
Wallace Shawn
Playwright
Noam Chomsky
Professor, MIT, Retired
Matthijs van Miltenburg
Member of the European Parliament
Janine Gibson
Editor-in-Chief, Buzzfeed UK
Kate Crawford
Academic and Author
Jan Philipp Albrecht
Member of European Parliament
Phil Giraldi
Former CIA Officer; Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest
Eileen Myles
Poet
Konstantin von Notz
Member of German Bundestag
Vince Warren
Executive Director, The Center For Constitutional Rights
Michael Cunningham
Writer
Malte Spitz
Board Member Alliance 90/The Greens
Lili Taylor
Actress
Viggo Mortensen
Actor
Ancilla van de Leest
Party Front Runner, Dutch Pirate Party
Martin Sheen
American Actor
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Naomi Shihab Nye
Writer
Rebecca Solnit
Writer
John Perry Barlow
Co-Founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation
David Talbot
Author and Founder of Salon
Kyp Malone
Musician
Rachel Kushner
Writer
David Strathaim
Participant, Theater of War/Outside the Wire
Colm Tóibín
Writer
Francine Prose
Writer
Amanda Palmer
Musician
Michael German
Writer, Former FBI Special Agent
Megan Price
Executive Director, Human Rights Data Analysis Group
Cory Doctorow
Co-Editor, Boing Boing
Alison Bechdel
Cartoonist
Laurie Anderson
Artist
Gus Hosein
Executive Director, Privacy International
Ursula Le Guin
Writer
Micah Sifry
Co-Founder, Personal Democracy Media
Perry Chen
Founder, Kickstarter
Anna Galland
Executive Director, MoveOn.org Civic Action
James Bamford
Author of A Trilogy on NSA; Foreign Policy Columnist
Lisa Lucas
Executive Director, National Book Foundation
Ronald Deibert
Director, The Citizen Lab, University of Toronto
Trevor Timm
Executive Director, Freedom of the Press Foundation
Jonathan Lethem
Writer
Christophe
Musician
Jerry Taylor
President, Niskanen Center
Norman Rush
Writer
Gary Numan
Musician
Ilya Sheyman
Executive Director, MoveOn.org Political Action
Craig Aaron
President and CEO, Free Press
Rivka Galchen
Writer
Neil Tennant
Musician
Jeremy Scahill
Founding Editor, The Intercept
Moxie Marlinspike
Founder, Open Whisper Systems
Jean Stein
Writer
Nick Flynn
Writer
Mona Eltahawy
Columnist
Mike Harris
CEO, 89up
Micah Lee
Technologist, The Intercept
Andrew Rasiej
Co-Founder, Personal Democracy Media
Max Temkin
Designer
Xeni Jardin
Co-Editor, Boing Boing
Joshua Cohen
Writer
Sam Lipsyte
Writer
Phillip Rogaway
Author, The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work
Jen Indovina
CEO & Founder at Tenrehte Technologies
Francisco Goldman
Writer
Jean-Michel Jarre
Musician and Activist
Yana Buhrer Tavanier
Co-Founder and CEO of Fine Acts
Mela London
Film Editor
Joseph O'Neill
Writer
Morgan Marquis-Boire
Director of Security, First Look Media
Deborah Eisenberg
Writer
Brenda Coughlin
Film Producer
Yvette Alberdingk Thijm
Executive Director, Witness
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