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.
I thought James Woolsey had more on the ball than to run interference for the Obama administration like this, using Edward Snowden. Edward Snowden had absolutely nothing at all to do with ISIS. Woolsey, in his tenure with the CIA, knew this. He is trying to create a smokescreen for the inane Obama administration, hoping people will concentrate on this and not the ineptitude of the administration in dealing with the terror threat.
No telling how many of these *orphan refugees* have already come in....all without ANY tracking/registries/information on. Yet, we the law abiders are being targeted/tracked/having OUR liberties taken away.
Wasn’t Brennan the one who possibly converted, while in ME?
Yes I think your right.
Defected? He released his info publicly and then sought asylum in Russia because our own government wanted him dead. Sorry, I don’t consider that defection.
At least you are publicly on the record supporting the traitor Snowden against your own country.
Any intelligence director that allowed a supposed contractor access to supposedly millions of unencrypted documents of such high order and could so easily copy them in two weeks should be hanged.
P.S. I ain’t buying the Snowden thing.
Apparently, Hillary Clinton also divulged classified information—is Woolsley calling for her to be hung as well?
The traitors are in the White House—not Edward Snowden.
You can think whatever you want, your opinion doesn’t really matter to me.
Iâm not really seeing the connection.....Because there is none. Cover for the NWO to invade free societies with Third World barbarians.
It is not whatever I want. Your own words indict you, so to speak.
Believe what you want, it doesn’t matter.
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