Posted on 12/22/2013 10:04:24 PM PST by WilliamIII
Former CIA Director James Woolsey had harsh words Tuesday for anyone thinking about giving Edward Snowden amnesty, and argued the NSA leaker should be “hanged” if he’s ever tried and convicted of treason.
Woolsey, along with former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Hugh Shelton, spoke Tuesday in Washington in an interview with Fox News.
“I think giving him amnesty is idiotic,” Woolsey said. “He should be prosecuted for treason. If convicted by a jury of his peers, he should be hanged by his neck until he is dead."
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Obama’s treason is incalculable. Period.
He has committed enough unconstitutional acts to qualify for a dozen impeachments. You could write a best selling book just listing those “high crimes and misdemeanors”.
However, with the whimps we have in Congress today, you’re never going to get him impeached. HOWEVER, I would love to have a hearing looking into the possibility of Obama’s impeachment JUST TO LIST ALL THE CHARGES FOR THE PUBLIC TO SEE.
That is the value of holding a well planned congressional hearing or series of hearings. Having given 5 congressional testimonies, I know the value of having information made public, under oath and in the record/text of the hearing.
People actually do read them, esp. if you tell competent journalists what is in the testimony and why it is a good story to cover.
What I’m hoping is that some really senior American military figure will denounce Obama publicly, resign, and then tell the the world the truth about how he has subverted our freedoms to the point that we may not be able to successfully defend ourselves from external attacks.
You can’t put a price on treason. You can only expose it, convict it, and execute the proper sentence for it.
I’m not a Marxist and the government can get bent.
You depend on fiat currency and the government setting your rules. I do not support your posit. That is all.
The Snowden worship bugs the Hell out of me.
I suspect that you’re either an ignorant troll or a 14 year old that’s bored with nothing better to do. In either case I don’t really care as talking to fools that refuse to see is just a waste of time.
In cases such as this, you can't conduct a successful prosecution without revealing some details about sources and methods. Snowden has been an uncommonly judicious prosecutor against a Goliath of a defendant.
“The Snowden worship bugs the Hell out of me.”
I would have respected him if he had simply stopped with the illegal US spying revelations. The problem with Snowden is he went a head and started releasing stuff on what we do to other countries which is what the NSA and the CIA are supposed to do. Because of that I’m no fan of him as he did tremendous damage to us in so many ways.
>> Snowden has been an uncommonly judicious prosecutor
Supposing no network of support.
Taking this ridicule from anyone “trapped” anywhere is quite the cake.
Phhhhttt!
Corrections please. As one of the people who worked on “Unfit for Command”, I’ll try to provide some information here.
Kerry and a friend threw a hand grenade into some sacks or containers of VC rice, but stood too close to them when they exploded. That is how Kerry got rice in his ass.
Kerry fired at a VC from his Swift Boat but apparently hit the railing and some small/tiny shrapnel hit his arm. Boo hoo.
On the Bay Hap River, Kerry claimed that his boat was hit by a mine which threw him around the pilot house and injured his arm, hip, etc. NEVER HAPPENED. No mine. His boat apparently hit either an under water obstruction (i.e. log, rock, etc), or the bottom because the propellers were bent backwards as happens when you run into and over something large and hard.
he then fled down the river leaving the boat hit by a real mine, floundering with wounded on it. He also lost a Special Forces soldier who fell overboard. Yes, he DID LEAVE A MAN BEHIND.
Besides “Unfit for Command”, we provided new information in a follow-up book by Scott Swett and Tim Ziegler entitled “To Set The Record Straight”. It’s all in the for everyone to read.
Kerry did see actual combat and do well, but he put his ass and his career above the safety of his men, took credit for things others did in conjunction with his operations, and lied about his “wounds”, changed his medals recommendations, and got undue influence or thru decept, letters of recommendation for his awards, and his way out of Vietnam.
Kerry’s treason lay in the fact that during a time of war, and as a Naval officer, even if in the inactive reserve, he had illegal contact with the communist enemy in Paris, at least twice, if not three times. He also was affiliated with communists in the anti-Vietnam movement (see the site www.WinterSoldier.com and some of the SwiftBoat sites.)
Kerry committed treason and should be punished severally for it. That’s what many of us wanted to happen in the 1970’s and again in 2004 when we did the book. I hold that some view today, as do many others from Nam.
Corrections please. As one of the people who worked on “Unfit for Command”, I’ll try to provide some information here.
Kerry and a friend threw a hand grenade into some sacks or containers of VC rice, but stood too close to them when they exploded. That is how Kerry got rice in his ass.
Kerry fired at a VC from his Swift Boat but apparently hit the railing and some small/tiny shrapnel hit his arm. Boo hoo.
On the Bay Hap River, Kerry claimed that his boat was hit by a mine which threw him around the pilot house and injured his arm, hip, etc. NEVER HAPPENED. No mine. His boat apparently hit either an under water obstruction (i.e. log, rock, etc), or the bottom because the propellers were bent backwards as happens when you run into and over something large and hard.
he then fled down the river leaving the boat hit by a real mine, floundering with wounded on it. He also lost a Special Forces soldier who fell overboard. Yes, he DID LEAVE A MAN BEHIND.
Besides “Unfit for Command”, we provided new information in a follow-up book by Scott Swett and Tim Ziegler entitled “To Set The Record Straight”. It’s all in the for everyone to read.
Kerry did see actual combat and do well, but he put his ass and his career above the safety of his men, took credit for things others did in conjunction with his operations, and lied about his “wounds”, changed his medals recommendations, and got undue influence or thru decept, letters of recommendation for his awards, and his way out of Vietnam.
Kerry’s treason lay in the fact that during a time of war, and as a Naval officer, even if in the inactive reserve, he had illegal contact with the communist enemy in Paris, at least twice, if not three times. He also was affiliated with communists in the anti-Vietnam movement (see the site www.WinterSoldier.com and some of the SwiftBoat sites.)
Kerry committed treason and should be punished severally for it. That’s what many of us wanted to happen in the 1970’s and again in 2004 when we did the book. I hold that some view today, as do many others from Nam.
Don’t you think that “they” already know what has been revealed by Snowden? I would be very surprised if this were not the case.
I understand your point, Rocky.
However, I’ve always been a full disclosure kind of guy.
There’s never been a woman in my life who did not know every important detail about me.
It never really occurs to me conceal anything, regardless of potential consequences.
Admittedly, most people feel I’m rather unique in that respect.
But for me, I don’t know how NOT to be like that.
Hey, I’ll take that trade and consider him a martyr as long as all of the Constitution shredding government douchebag dog excrement eaters are up there with him...
I’d buy your rational if the government didn’t fart around on prosecuting the “war on terror” and just got on with the job of beating the planets islamic nations like a drum until they reformed their religion, converted to something else or were destroyed...
You are correct about Snowden and others like him who run their mouths about TS SCI INFO to the world. We have had traitors since the Revolutionary War and a few may recall Tokyo Rose. Snowden is a traitor and he shows up with the same Wiki leaks fairy that the little boy who wants to be a girl did. We always knew we had a few queers in MI even back in the 60’s. Obviously,our INTEL community is worse now. I worry about our INTEL community with all the LGBT folks forced on the military by this admin.
An admin that used the IRS against the Tea Party will use MI and NSA for it’s own purposes too. Obama has no use for our Constitution and other laws. Government has grown 15%
recently. We should heed Ben Franklin especially with Obama. “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
Look at Obama’s appointees from Education to HHS and most are about as competent as Sebelius.
Snowden is as great a hero as any in his generation. He gave up his life in America as a successful person to live in fear in foreign countries solely to reveal to the American public the gross constitutional violations committed by an ever-expanding police state spying on every possible form of electronic communications. It was a massive, wake-up call that shocked the country and started a real policy debate, spawning potential legal changes that are now taking place in direct response to what he revealed.
Article 3 Section 3 - “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.”
Snowden likely shared the “keys to the kingdom” with Russia and/or China. Are we at war with Russia or China? Or did he share directly with Al Qieda? Even if he did, are we actually in declared war with them (as the Framers intended with this Section)?
Or are we throwing out the Rule of Law, to enable the Rule of Force?
Same for Bill Clinton.
IMO, odumbo should be hung before Snowden as odumbo has done more damage to this nation than anyone in history.
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