While the Justice Department filed a criminal complaint against Snowden on espionage-related charges in June, there has been no public subsequent indictment, although it is possible one exists under gag order.
The recent past contains several examples of military intervention against sovereign states where the outcome, if not ideal, has certainly been much better in humanitarian terms than what went before: Vietnam's removal of Pol Pot from Cambodia; Nato's Kosovo campaign, with the subsequent indictment of Slobodan Milosevic; the removal of the Taliban from Afghanistan.
The federal government's lawyer, Michael Dreeben, argued that Williams' niceties -- and the governor's tactics -- in turn led to a subsequent indictment and public trial where a jury duly convicted him.
The purchase of an adjacent lot and sale of part of it to Obama by the wife of developer, campaign donor and friend Tony Rezko attracted media attention because of Rezko's subsequent indictment and conviction on political corruption charges that were unrelated to Obama.
Yet the Bosniak army was not blameless, as the subsequent indictment of the commander of its Srebrenica garrison for war crimes shows.
The monitor's report -- and the subsequent indictments of mob figures accused of stealing donations made to the San Gennaro festival -- led to an overhaul of its management, and a new organization to run it.
A subsequent 2008 indictment from the U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, Calif., charges Nicholas with conspiracy to distribute cocaine, ecstasy and speed, and alleges that Nicholas had hired prostitutes for himself and clients and supplied the prostitutes with drugs.
From Atlanta to Los Angeles, protesters have regularly shut down traffic on major roads in the wake of the non-indictment of Darren Wilson, the Ferguson police officer who shot dead unarmed teenager Michael Brown, and the subsequent non-indictment of Daniel Pantaleo, the New York cop involved in the death of Eric Garner.
According to Reuben Faloughi, an MU student and member of Concerned Student 1950, "The group was formed because of the systemic issues that have been going on since 1950 but, in particular, since the Mike Brown incident and subsequent non-indictment of Darren Wilson.
But Garner was the first in this cruel viral lineup, and oddly enough, his death, and his killer's subsequent non-indictment, can be seen, almost, as something that had to happen, an aggravated assault on justice that was necessary in order for it to be served elsewhere (There have been indictments in three of these other four cases, and Rice's killers may be indicted in the weeks ahead).
And so it has been with every subsequent whistleblower under indictment, and so it would be if Edward Snowden was on trial in an American courtroom now.
