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Kansas Rep Pompeo wants to cancel Snowden's SXSW appearance

Edward Snowden is speaking at SXSW on Monday at an event that I’m also part of.Rep Mike Pompeo (R-KS), who sits on the House Intelligence Committee (and on whose watch the abuses that Snowden has detailed occurred) has demanded that his appearance be cancelled. Pompeo says that Snowden lacks credibility in the area of “privacy, surveillance, and online monitoring.” Pompeo demonstrably lacks credibility in the area of the First Amendment.

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