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.
Great post-—love Jack Bauer——you saw Common Sense and true masculine Virtue in him.
Virtue—(mature masculinity)—something that is being intentionally destroyed and targeted in our little boys by erasing Classical Education and demonizing Christian Ethics (the Natural Family which is they only system which builds moral, mature, independent thinking males).
Destroy Virtue in children which public school is designed to do, and you get no Jack Bauers-—no Common Sense-—just immature, puerile, lazy cowards (group thinkers).
This guy sounds like the 1950s singer Gisele MacKenzie, who performed on Your Hit Parade. When rock and roll came along, it wiped out popular music of the time, taking Your Hit Parade and Gisele’s job with it. To her dying day, MacKenzie hated rock and roll and blamed every evil in the world on it.
That, good sir, is a BINGO!
Our government is purposefully manufacturing chaos in order to empower itself to take control of the very same chaos it manufactures.
The thing is truly evil.
Your one sentence sums it up well.
You first spook! Declassify all CIA activities and I’m sure we will find enough to hang the entire organization. When you get the hide your actions you hide any chance of accountability. Never trust a spook.
Yes, and I think it’s important to remember that treason is NOT betraying the government. Treason, at least in the U.S., is betraying the PEOPLE. If the government is serving the people, then as you say, betraying that government is the same thing as betraying the people. When the government isn’t serving the people, but acting against them, then betraying the government cannot be treason.
It's not like terrorists have stopped using electronic communication, so it must be something else.
Maybe Congressional and Judiciary constraints on NSA's illegal activities?
"But despite going after big game, Hastings tended to be nonchalant about possible repercussions. âWhenever Iâd been reporting around groups of dudes whose job it was to kill people,â he said once, âone of them would usually mention that they were going to kill me.â
His enemies were the Obama Whitehouse, CIA, NSA and DOD. And their Congressional supporters.
Even he knew they were going to kill him for his exposes.
Anyone who aided and abetted the “Arab Spring” should be hanged.
I’ve never thought that Facebook was the invention of a 20 year old nerd. I think it’s the US government’s way of gathering info on American citizens. Make yourself a FB account, then try to delete it. Impossible. You might think it’s deleted, but only sign back on and presto it’s like you never left.
BINGO
Maybe screening everything and everyone without choosing suspects based on signal traffic, origin of signals, nation of origin, affiliations, contact groups, and content slowed things down a little.
But that would be "profiling"...
yeah and what about Hillary and her email?
BS. One thing lacking in getting that problem contained: The will to do so.
All the political walking on eggshells in the greatest barrier and it only emboldens the perpetrators. This will result in violent clashes between the 'radical Amish' and those who have been putting up with their crap for too long.
I have come to believe this is the desired effect. Then Government can crack down on the group which retaliates while the radical Amish go untouched, or suspend the rules and go to the next level of totalitarian action.
I suppose so they can steal and defect with our nation's secrets to Russia.
Snowden defected to the Russians ? Why do you support him ?
Snowden defected to the Russians. Why do you support him ?
Snowden defected to the Russians. Why do you imagine it ridiculous to call him a traitor ?
BULL. Woolsey, along with Bush, Obama, and Hillary are the ones with Blood on their hands. They Destabilized the Middle East and caused all of this turmoil and new Terrorism.
Snowden just exposed the corruption and deceit on the part of our so called leaders.
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