Posted on 11/20/2015 9:52:31 AM PST by NKP_Vet
A former CIA director says leaker Edward Snowden should be convicted of treason and given the death penalty in the wake of the terrorist attack on Paris.
"It's still a capital crime, and I would give him the death sentence, and I would prefer to see him hanged by the neck until he's dead, rather than merely electrocuted," James Woolsey told CNN's Brooke Baldwin on Thursday.
Woolsey said Snowden, who divulged classified in 2013, is partly responsible for the terrorist attack in France last week that left at least 120 dead and hundreds injured. "I think the blood of a lot of these French young people is on his hands," he said.
Woolsey, who served as the head of the CIA from 1993 to 1995, said the Snowden leak was "substantial."
"They turned loose not only material about some procedural aspects of something, they turned loose, for example, some substantial material about the Mexican intelligence service and law enforcement working together against human trafficking," he said.
Woolsey wondered if Snowden were "pro-pimp."
Current CIA Director John Brennan has recently echoed his predecessor's sentiments, arguing that Snowden's disclosures make it harder for intelligence officials to track terror plots.
"I think any unauthorized disclosures made by individuals that have dishonored the oath of office, that they have raised their hand and attested to, undermines this nation's security," Brennan said about Snowden at the Overseas Security Advisory Council's annual meeting on Wednesday.
Snowden fled the country after stealing classified information and disclosing the extent of U.S. surveillance programs. He currently resides in Russia, where he has been granted temporary asylum.
Anyone who aided and abetted the “Arab Spring” should be hanged.
Clinton broke the same laws.
I’m not really seeing the connection.
Massive BS. Blowing smoke to distract from the 0bama administration's cowardly and weak response to "the JV team" causing ISIS to flourish. This is link the administration's blaming the Bengazi attack on some film maker - total bull pucky.
This is b.s. The CIA did not like Americans finding out they were spying on them like some big brother monster. We thought they were fighting a war on Islamic terrorists. Silly Americans.
Yet Hasan lives,
and Bergdahl will soon be a Judge on SCOTUS.
James, get a grip.
Bingo! The world knows who started that.
What about those in the intel community who blew off the info sent to them by the Russians re: the brothers Tsarnaev?
Perhaps the intel and LE community who disregarded that info ought to be dancing at the end of a rope, too. They are no less complicit in Boston than Snowden was with Paris.
I see Woolsey is still butt hurt about disclosure the CIA (among many others) surveils all of us, all the time, in every way possible.
1. These were civilians, not military.
2. Snowden had nothing to do with them killing civilians.
3. The French were letting these radicals into their country due to “good vibes” and a sorry screening process by their border patrols......just like we do today.
4. The same exact thing is happening here and we will experience this type of barbaric action pretty soon......due to the reasons 1 to 3 above.
The only way Snowden could have been responsible for killing anyone would be if he personally went to France and killed one!
It just sickens me to see our government “experts” soil their pants in the drive to blame anyone and everyone for their failings.
Looking for a scapegoat to cover their own ineptitude.
But when France starts bombing ISIS over a year ago it's obviously because Snowden let the world know how far and wide the US spy apparatus was flung that people are dying in Paris.
I cannot express in words my contempt this foreign policy that is decades in the making, of bombing the rest of the world and expecting that they'll just lay down and take it, and when they bomb us back, that's supposed to be justification to bomb them some more...
And Obama shouldn’t be?????
Ex-gov official advocates for the extrajudicial murder of a whistleblower. Film at 11.
How does he fell about Hillary Clinton leaking all our secrets out by using a private insecure email server?
I’m not seeing a connection either.
This just sounds like an embittered former government employee who has a vendetta against Snowden using any excuse to call for his hanging.
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