In fact, in my book, he would be right up there with Hanoi Jane in 1st or 2nd place...
I’m a proud Yankee and even I think anyone who calls Robert E Lee a traitor is a moron. Even in the middle of a brutal civil war he was widely respected in the north.
Where’s the Rosenbergs?
I agree about R.E. Lee not needing to be on there. He DID resign his commission, so he wasn’t pulling the wool over anyone’s eyes. Back then, people thought of themselves more as what State they were from, than as Americans.
Anyone who knows anything about that period realizes that Lee was not a traitor. In those times the question of who your loyalty was first was a serious matter of dispute- state or federal. Remember the states existed before the federal govt. Remember that one of the main reasons that Jefferson Davis was never tried on treason was because there was serious belief that the Supreme Court would hold that a state could withdraw from the union.
Officers in the Federal Army were allowed to resign, so they could fight for the south. The Army and Naval Academies held a final formation so the students could say one last good bye to each other before they separated.
There was a sense of honor and a personal code that seems very alien to us now.
Also recognize that Robert E. Lee did more to ensure that ex-confederate soldiers came back into the union than any other confederate general (that I know of). He was held in high esteem by both sides before, during and after the civil war.
It’s quite obvious someone forgot one ,,,, that is #1 B. H. 0.
Where the hell is Alger Hiss? Or the Rosenbergs? Or Morton Sobell? Or Judith Coplon?
Is my browser not working properly?I dont see any names and dont recognize some of them or an explanation why they were chosen.Who are they?
I agree on eliminating RE Lee from the list. Alger Hiss should be up at #2. And move Pound from the top 10 to 11th and insert the Rosenbergs.
In fact, in my book, he would be right up there with Hanoi Jane in 1st or 2nd place...
Sandy Burglar, That dude risked a lot by stuffing papers in His pants, shortly after 9-11. He got away with it, But what He did, stealing State secrets or evidence, is what a traitor does. He belongs on any list Fonda is on.
But I can think of a handful of people who didn't make the cut and should have: John Walker, Jerry Whitworth, to name two. Hiss, the Rosenburgs, practically anyone on the Verona list. Adam Gadahn and Major Nidal Hasan without a doubt. Not, however, punks like William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, who were second-raters at their top and are simply embarrassing now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_May
Congressman Andrew May (D) Kentucky.
During WWII he received a top secret briefing about how the Japanese were setting their depth charges too shallow to sink our submarines.
So he has a press conference and brags about it, the Japanese adjust their settings and we lost at least 10 submarines and their crews.
Some other really important ones that were missed:
William Hamilton Martin and Bernon F. Mitchell, U.S. National Security Agency cryptologists who defected to the Soviet Union in 1960.
John Anthony Walker, Jr. During his time as a Soviet spy, Walker helped the Soviets decipher more than one million encrypted US Navy messages, organizing a spy operation that The New York Times reported in 1987 “is sometimes described as the most damaging Soviet spy ring in history.”
I absolutely agree about the Rosenbergs, who deserved to fry.
England considered all of the Founding Fathers traitors. They overturned a government.
The Confederates didn’t try to overturn the “union” government. Therefore, Lee, Davis et al were not traitors.
I consider every member of the supreme court and every person in congress traitors for allowing a non natural born citizen to become president.
Lee? A traitor? LOL...looks like Ms. Currie has some sand in his mangina with regards to southerners...
Bill Clinton - sold missile technology to China for campaign cash.
There was also Mildred Gillars, known as Axis Sally (though there were other broadcasters who were also known by that nickname). With time, experts have come to be a bit forgiving of Iva "Tokyo Rose" D'Aquino who, they say, wasn't political wasn't the treacherous monster she was made out to be.
Most of that handful of Americans in the Waffen SS were of German parentage. I suspect all of them were at least part German and many were taken back to Germany as children. That doesn't mean they weren't traitors, but it may explain why they weren't prosecuted.
The biggest traitor by far is Hussein Obama. Why is he not at the TOP OF THE LIST?
Where are Clinton, and Obama?
Did Roberts make the top five?