Posted on 08/14/2022 5:00:26 AM PDT by gattaca
Should execution be on the table for Americans who allegedly spill nuclear secrets?
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden appeared to endorse the idea late Thursday after new allegations accused former President Donald Trump of storing highly classified documents with nuclear information at Mar-a-Lago.
What is the background? After Attorney General Merrick Garland admitted on Thursday that he personally approved the FBI raid on Trump's south Florida residence, the Washington Post reported, citing anonymous sources, that FBI agents raided Mar-a-Lago to retrieve documents with nuclear information.
The sources with whom the Post spoke "did not offer additional details about what type of information the agents were seeking, including whether it involved weapons belonging to the United States or some other nation. Nor did they say if such documents were recovered as part of the search," according to the newspaper.
If the sources are correct, it would explain why the Justice Department took such aggressive action against Trump by searching his private residence.
Don't miss out on content from Dave Rubin free of big tech censorship. Listen to The Rubin Report now. What did Hayden say? After the Washington Post levied its allegations, NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss went viral with a tweet in which he reminded Americans the U.S. government has previously executed Americans for leaking nuclear secrets.
"Rosenbergs were convicted for giving U.S. nuclear secrets to Moscow, and were executed June 1953," Beschloss tweeted.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed after being convicted of leaking top-secret information to the Soviets. The information contained state secrets on nuclear weapons, jet engines, radar, sonar, and other invaluable technologies.
In response to Beschloss, Hayden, also a former four-star general, appeared to endorse execution as the appropriate punishment for those who leak nuclear secrets.
"Sounds about right," Hayden tweeted.
Hayden also "retweeted" another person who suggested the alleged actions amount to espionage.
What did Trump say? The former president pushed back against the allegations on Friday, denouncing them as a "hoax."
While it remains unclear whether the documents supporting the search warrant will be released publicly, one wonders why the Justice Department would have waited so long to retrieve documents from Trump if they in fact contained information on nuclear weapons.
This is the guy who compared Trump supports to the Taliban.
Isn’t General Hayden a tad on the woke side?
People like Hayden are part of the permanent government. They believe the government should be in charge of America, not the people, not the voters.
If you threaten the Establishment/Deep State, you will die.
The new concept here ("revolutionary" new concept, in fact) is that no Big Brother is even needed for their utopia. A Deep State Hive Mind has developed/evolved which makes a "Big Brother" completely unnecessary.
It’s very obvious, when you follow the entire Trump spy story, that the CIA was as deep as the FBI.
The CIA had the access to out of country assets that they utilized against unsuspecting Trump people, as well as coordinating 5 eyes to
Spy and wire tap Trumps campaign for the democrats.
Peter Strzok worked at the FBI, but his salary apparently wasn’t paid by the FBI.
Many many things lead back to Brennan at the CIA, including the counter intelligence part of the FBI. That has always meant this is all on Obama.
Make no mistake, this same cast of characters are also pushing for the execution of normal Americans, and for any reason or whim.
Bill Clinton is at least 1 president that leaked nuclear (nucular) secrets. Does Hayden want to start with the most obvious first?
I thought execution was already one of the possible outcomes of that crime, albeit an outcome very few of today’s politicians would support.
Immediate execution of those who commit crimes against the Republic.
That group includes all who perpetrated election fraud and seditionists like but not limited to the traitor Adam Schiff
That Hayden would scream like a little girl if you punched him in the face.
This is smelling like “Trump-Russia Collusion” 10.0. It’s so very tiresome. Clinton national security advisor Sandy Berger got probation and community service for literally stealing threat assessment documents from the national archives ahead of his 9/11 commission testimony. When he died, Obama hailed him a hero and a patriot. He was also not a president.
I’m all for executing CIA agents operating on U.S. soil, and I have no doubt there are a lot of those.
That’s a pretty spicy take on Hillary and her email server.
This crap about Trump and espionage is so much BS. It is not believable in the slightest.
Meanwhile we have real receipts of Biden, his son and other democrats, colluding in many ways with the Chicoms and other foreign governments while Joey was VP and potus..
“...appeared to endorse execution as the appropriate punishment for those who leak nuclear secrets.
“Sounds about right,” Hayden tweeted.”
That was aimed at Trump, of course.
“They believe the government should be in charge of America, not the people, not the voters.”
Woodrow Wilson did too.
I’m in.
Amazing just how unenlightened these Deep State folks are. They think their Deep State control of America would be so frikken benign...but they are already in favor of killing those who dissent to their government takeover.
Loose lips and all that.
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