“How is the hell can that be any of your concern? What, you think he was a spy for some foreign country? You people should be ashamed of yourselves.”
Since you brought the subject up, you should bear the responsibility for the consequences. Yes, it is a fact readily acknowledged by Rafael Cruz that he did engage in what can be termed as espionage and/or subversive activities. The question only remains as to against whom and when those espionage and subversive activities were directed.
Rafael Cruz says he served with the clandestine pro-Castro revolutionary forces. The Communists for whom Rafael Cruz claims he was unwittingly serving say Rafael Cruz was an informer for the Batista regime spying on the pro-castro revolutionaries Cruz believed were pro-democracy forces supported by the U.S. CIA. So, whomever Rafael Cruz was serving wittingly or unwittingly, he was engaged in espionage and subversion for at least some periods of time by his own admission.
It should always be remembered how there was once a man of truly heroic accomplishment without whom the American Revolution would have failed that betrayed his friend and benefactor, George Washington, to commit treason against the United States; and his name was Benedict Arnold. His treason established the principle that no man is above the law and the moral principles from which the law originates; and we are a nation governed by the Republican rule of law and not by the rule of men or mobs. Likewise in U.S. intelligence principles, we judge by the risks of an adversary’s capabilities and not by our fallible estimations of the adversary’s intentions. By moral principles, Constitutional intentions, and practical considerations the commander-in-chielf of the armed forces of the United States needs to be and must be a person representative of and recruited from the natural born citizens of the United States unencumbered by potential divided loyalties or sympathies from foreign societies. The Marquis de Lafayette understood this principle and respected it while serving the cause of human liberty at the supreme risk of his own life, limb, social position, and fortunes without expectation of a reward in American political power.
Ezekiel Chapter 18: 19-20: Yet say ye, (WhiskeyX) Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, [and] hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live. The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Now that is natural law!!!!! Furthermore, I seem to recall most of America was on the wrong side of the Castro situation back then. Castro screwed over our support of him which should tell us to stay out of other country's business.