The White House has responded to a petition calling for the pardon of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, after it received more than 100,000 signatures in 2013. That threshold is supposed to guarantee a response from the White House, but the response took more than two years. On Tuesday, Lisa Monaco, Obama’s adviser on homeland security and counterterrorism, rejected the call for a pardon and called for Snowden to “accept the consequences of his actions.”