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Edward Snowden broke the law but he is making the case for president barack obama to grant him a pardon arguing that the information he shared about government surveillance programs was the moral and ethical ii right thing to do Snowden explained his case in an interview with The Guardian adding that his actions encouraged others to speak out against government outreach and that he didn't hurt anyone the American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International also launched a campaign to push the Obama administration to pardon him and the petition comes the same week as the release of the Oliver Stone biopic on the NSA whistleblower starring Joseph gordon-levitt as Snowden shailene woodley as his girlfriend Lindsay Mills and Zachary Quinto as guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald at the New York City movie premiere we asked the stars with a thought of their real life counterparts and their views now on technology and privacy Gordon Levitt said he would like to see Snowden pardoned me personally I would like to see that yeah I know that he would love to come home I think a lot of folks and I understand why I think that he was sort of out to get America or wanted to undermine America what I what I found the more I got to know him was it was out of a love for his country that the truth is the NSA was breaking certain laws and lying to the American people that really go against everything that's so beautiful about our country you know and he risked his life to try to stand up against it Stone said that he didn't make the movie to help Snowden but he also wants to see him pardoned I have no political motive it'd be nice to see it Quinto spoke about what impressed him on plane journalists Greenwald I think he's unimpeachably intelligent and I think he's he's unafraid to step up to like in this case the Guardian right the corporate structure in order to fight for what he believes in and and and that was the thing that I really wanted to because in this situation where they were so vulnerable they didn't know how at risk they were they didn't know each other all that well you know there's a an implicit trust that has to be cultivated in those relationships working on the movie also got cast thinking about privacy issues but Woodley says she's not paranoid about it you actively want to see change you have to be empowered through awareness and so paranoia leads to complaining and I feel like awareness leads to empowerment which activates you to create a change I'm Bridget Carey you can stay on top of the biggest stories at cnet com / update