American citizens must have been startled and shocked when a prominent politician, who should know better, informed them with passionate intensity of the existence of "deplorables" in their ranks.  No doubt some citizens would like the numbers and identity of them in the absurd "basket of deplorables" to be more precisely stated. Nevertheless, it is more sensible, important and urgent to concentrate on two particular individuals, Edward Snowden, now in Moscow. and Rachid Kassim, hiding in France.  These are deplorables – indeed, too deplorable for words. The more familiar of the two is Edward Snowden, former intelligence contractor with the National Security Agency (NSA) who has been in Russia since June 2013.  He wants to return to the U.S. and is seeking a presidential pardon from President Barack Obama.  He is unlikely to receive it but may be satisfied with the publicity of his activities in the film Snowden, released in...(Read Full Article)