Julian Assange and Edward Snowden: The Rise and Fall of the Deep State

As an outsider and anti-establishment figure, what are your views on two men that have perhaps done more to reveal the deep corruption of the American experiment? Julian Assange currently facing extradition to your country under the Espionage Act and Edward Snowden, of course, currently in exile in Russia. Do you think these men should be pardoned? Do you think their status should be revised to that of heroes? Or would you, similarly, persecute those individuals in the way that they currently are?