• __dev@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    He immediately got charged under the Espionage Act. If he didn’t leave or if he came back he’d be tried, without a jury, and get either life in prison or the death penalty.

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      8 months ago

      Lol no. He got charged and had his passport suspended a month after he left. He was in Hong Kong on May 20th and they charged him/suspended his passport on June 21st. After he’d been in Hong Kong with top secret documents for a month. He had plenty of time to fly to any of several non extradition countries.

      Furthermore he would certainly have a jury and the federal government hasn’t handed down a death sentence for anything less than murder since the Rosenbergs.