Uh-Oh, Eric

Just the admission has the likes of Mitch McConnell in apoplexy.   (Not to mention pretty much all reports leading with that admission as if it's something new and shocking.)

To be sure, Holder did not say Snowden shouldn't be tried. He pretty much said Snowden harmed our country and should face legal consequences, indicating the assumption of a guilty verdict that would lead to sentencing.

"I know there are ways in which certain of our agents were put at risk, relationships with other countries were harmed, our ability to keep the American people safe was compromised.”

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“He's broken the law in my view. He needs to get lawyers, come on back, and decide, see what he wants to do: Go to trial, try to cut a deal. I think there has to be a consequence for what he has done,” Holder continued. "I think in deciding what an appropriate sentence should be, I think a judge could take into account the usefulness of having had that national debate."

  Politico

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.