Not only does Edward Snowden exhibit no contrition about his theft of government secrets, we don’t even know the full scope of his offense.

No one will ever accuse President Donald Trump of being overly careful in his exercise of his pardon power.

So, it makes sense that advocates of Edward Snowden, the man responsible for the most damaging classified leak in U.S. history, are mounting a last-minute push to get the president who pardoned Sheriff Joe and Roger Stone to issue his most outrageous and indefensible pardon yet.

It’s a transpartisan alliance. Glenn Greenwald, Snowden’s journalistic partner and foremost advocate, has, of course, been banging the drum. Rose McGowan has urged Trump on Twitter to be “punk as f***” and pardon Snowden in defiance of “DC Cult Leaders aka politicians” who “hate truth.” Renegade Democratic representative Tulsi Gabbard is on board, as are libertarian Trump loyalists Senator Rand Paul and Representative Matt Gaetz.

As Trump’s presidency winds down and his clout on Capitol Hill diminishes, his sweeping power to grant clemency will be even more alluring to him, and he said over the summer that he’s considering a Snowden pardon.

If the pardon can be sold to Trump as a way to stick it to the deep state on his way out the door, anything is possible. Why go to the trouble of firing Central Intelligence Agency director Gina Haspel or Federal Bureau of Investigation director Christopher Wray if he can signal his contempt for their ilk by bringing in from the cold a bête noire of the U.S. national-security apparatus with a stroke of his pen?