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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/edward-snowden-nobel-peace-prize-94158.html">http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/edward-snowden-nobel-peace-prize-94158.html</a><br>
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<h1>Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize</h1>
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A Swedish sociology professor has nominated Edward Snowden for the
Nobel Peace Prize, saying that awarding the former NSA employee
would correct Nobel Committee’s mistake in giving the award to
President Barack Obama in 2009.<br>
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According to a translation of the letter published by the Daily Mail
and RT.com, Umeå University professor Stefan Svallfors wrote the
committee that Snowden has made the world safer in releasing
information about United States surveillance.<br>
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“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,” Svallfors
wrote.<br>
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Referencing the Nuremberg trials of Nazis, Svallfors says following
orders is not an excuse for acting against human rights and freedom,
and he praised Snowden’s courage in leaking the information.<br>
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Svallfors also noted that Obama was a past recipient of the Nobel
Peace Prize, which he called a correctable mistake.<br>
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“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,” Svallfors said.<br>
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Because of Svallfors’s professorship at Umeå, he is one of the
people who can submit a nomination to the Nobel organization.
However, nominations for 2013 were required to be postmarked by Feb.
1.<br>
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It was unclear if the committee would consider Snowden’s nomination
for 2013 anyway. The Nobel Peace Prize website says the committee
may sometimes add nominations to the list accrued by Feb. 1, but
once names are whittled down into a shortlist, the nomination
process is closed. Nominations after the deadline are usually
considered the following year.<br>
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The committee received a record 259 nominations this year, it said.
Prizes are announced in October.<br>
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On Monday, WikiLeaks noted that Snowden joins WikiLeaks founder
Julian Assange and leaker Army Pfc. Bradley Manning in having been
nominated for Nobels, but the organization in a series of tweets
decried the committee as a “corrupt” tool of foreign policy.<br>
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Now Manning, Assange and Snowden have all been formally
nominated for the Nobel. — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 15, 2013<br>
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The Nobel Peace prize however, is corrupt. Overseen by Norwegian
and Swedish establishments, it has become an instrument of foreign
policy. — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 15, 2013<br>
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That’s why former winners have denounced the institution as
corrupted and it is being sued for corrupting its constitution.—
WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 15, 2013<br>
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