Posted on 01/17/2020 6:01:20 AM PST by SJackson
Clearing the name of a traitor was a priority for the Democratic presidential candidate.
Radical U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, who could be the next Commander-in-Chief, asked then-President Barack Obama in his final days in office to formally exonerate Soviet atomic spy Ethel Rosenberg, according to media reports.
This was a not a request for a mere presidential pardon, which the Department of Justice cautions does “not erase or expunge the record” of the conviction, but a request that history be rewritten.
Warren, now a leading contender for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, sent a letter dated Jan. 10, 2017, on behalf of one of Rosenberg’s sons.
“I am writing on behalf of my constituent, Robert Meeropol, and his family to request that you provide a thorough review of their request that you issue a proclamation exonerating his mother, Ethel Rosenberg. Ms. Rosenberg was executed by the United States for conspiracy to commit espionage in 1953.”
The request originated with the Rosenberg Fund for Children, a 30-year-old 501(c)(3) nonprofit that, in founder Meeropol’s words, was created to enable radical left-wing activists “to rally around the children of this era’s targeted activists.” The group boasted on its website that its petition in late 2016 to President Obama “garnered 60,000 supporters, both from within the ranks of RFC donors, and beyond,” and that it “received extensive media attention that had global reach.”
“The fear of the McCarthy era led to Ethel Rosenberg's unjust conviction and execution,” Meeropol said at the time. “We’re not asking for a pardon, because she was not guilty. We’re asking for a proclamation that she was wrongly convicted, and wrongly executed.”
On RFC’s advisory board sit entertainers Edward Asner, Harry Belafonte, Mandy Patinkin, and Susan Sarandon, along with communist stalwart Angela Davis, and convicted cop-killer Leonard Peltier.
The letter is yet more proof that Warren would be a captive of the far Left if allowed to reside in the White House.
And Warren wasn’t the only Massachusetts Democrat to ask President Obama to exonerate Rosenberg. Her fellow senator, Ed Markey, did the same, as did House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal and House Rules Committee Chairman James McGovern.
In December 2016, former Massachusetts governor and 1988 Democrat presidential pick Michael Dukakis issued a public statement asking Obama to publicly proclaim Rosenberg’s innocence.
Yet the guilt of Communist spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg remains.
The married couple was electrocuted at Sing Sing on June 19, 1953.
Their spy ring gave the USSR sensitive information about U.S. air capabilities in the Korean War and the secrets of the A-bomb, allowing our totalitarian enemies to develop nuclear weapons years earlier than they otherwise would have. These spies helped to change the balance of power in the world and emboldened the Soviet Union as it became a superpower and went on the march enslaving tens of millions in Eastern Europe.
As Steven T. Usdin wrote in his 2005 book, Engineering Communism:
“Rosenberg’s band of amateur spies turned over detailed information on a wide range of technologies and weapon systems that hastened the Red Army’s march to Berlin, jump-started its postwar development of nuclear weapons and delivery systems, and later helped Communist troops in North Korea fight the American military to a standoff.”
In sentencing the Rosenbergs, Judge Irving Kaufman was unsparing in his criticism:
“I consider your crime worse than murder. Plain deliberate contemplated murder is dwarfed in magnitude by comparison with the crime you have committed. In committing the act of murder, the criminal kills only his victim. The immediate family is brought to grief and when justice is meted out the chapter is closed. But in your case, I believe your conduct in putting into the hands of the Russians the A-bomb years before our best scientists predicted Russia would perfect the bomb has already caused, in my opinion, the Communist aggression in Korea, with the resultant casualties exceeding 50,000 and who knows but that millions more of innocent people may pay the price of your treason. Indeed, by your betrayal you undoubtedly have altered the course of history to the disadvantage of our country.”
In turning down a request to pardon the Rosenbergs, President Dwight D. Eisenhower didn’t mince words:
“I can only say that, by immeasurably increasing the chances of atomic war, the Rosenbergs may have condemned to death tens of millions of innocent people all over the world. The execution of two human beings is a grave matter. But even graver is the thought of the millions of dead whose deaths may be directly attributable to what these spies have done.”
The Rosenbergs’ guilt was proved long ago but radicals won’t allow facts to get in the way of their narrative.
Because the Rosenbergs were unabashed Communists who didn’t hide their admiration of Stalin’s Soviet Union, the Left ran to their defense, using rationales that shifted over time as more and more damning evidence surfaced against the couple. When the Rosenbergs’ guilt could no longer be disputed, their defenders pivoted, saying they had noble intentions, that the information passed on to the Soviets was junk, and that there were irregularities in their prosecution.
These are all lies but because they remain part of the Left’s anti-American mythology, they have remarkable staying power.
The fact that Elizabeth Warren asked an American president to clear the name of a despicable proven traitor tells you all you need to know about how she would behave as president.
I have read a bit on the subject-the Rosenberg’s involvement (both of them-husband and wife) were verified as Soviet spies when a lot of Soviet-era intelligence was released.
The Venona Files (Soviet communications that we were able to read because we had broken their code) provided indisputable proof that both the Rosenbergs were involved.
Because we were able to decrypt their communications we were able to see what the Soviets were saying, but were mostly unable to positively confirm exactly what they were discussing until the fall of the Soviet Union enabled us to see their documentation and cross match to various elements.
The worldwide outrage against the Rosenbergs was orchestrated by the Soviets and the worldwide Communist party.
Morton Sobell, who was the last convicted person in that case who died in 2008 admitted he was spying for the Soviets (and said that Julius Rosenberg was as well) in an interview before he died. He did say Ethel Rosenberg was not part of the ring, but I don’t believe him. He spent his entire life lying about it.
The Rosenbergs were both committed communists and admitted that openly, saying they were being prosecuted
After reading extensively about the CPUSA and such (from a variety of different sources) the concept that his wife wasn’t involved given her commitment is unsupportable. That wasn’t the way those people operated.
hatred of the good and love of the evil = a sign of evil
Worthless commie bitch! You can guess to which one I’m referring to.
OBTW, it was a friggin’ CPUSA member who once said of Lizzie Warren,
“Nobody with a net worth of fifteen million dollars has any business lecturing the rest of us about the virtues of socialism!”
Had Rosenberg been a black radical...maybe.
The media knew it all along. They were complict then as now, only more under the radar.
Now they don’t even bother...................
I guess ValJar said No.
BTW ..does warren have a issue with Trump “colluding” with Plootin?
Those were the good old days when the actually treated spies correctly... By executing them.
Unlike the Obama’s administration. Russian spies caught during his reign were put on planes as quickly as possible and then sent back to Russia before they could testify as to which political figures circles they had infiltrated. Hillary sure was thankful.
These are dangerous people, and the Democrats better get the commies out of their party.
“I guess,technically speaking,it’s possible that she wasn’t”
The NSA had highly secret knowledge she was guilty and could not afford to identify its sources. They had to depend on her brother to get the point across. She was a Russian agent and complicit.
Where is Russell Lowe now?
Why not Julius?
Now there’s an issue to run on.
He has access to the decoded Venona intercepts, and was unable to unmask spies with 100% accuracy lest the Soviets suspect. It was unfortunately necessary to falsely accuse some.
The Rosenbergs were true believers. They devoted their entire lives to their faith. They spied for their faith. They lied for their faith. They died for their faith. I have never questioned their courage or their integrity. They were communist heroes. I.e., heroes on the wrong side, morally no different than the devoted SS men who died in the rubble of Berlin because their Fuehrer had ordered it.
This threatens to make Bernie look pro American by comparison. Maybe he can salvage his image by petioning to pardon the Walker spy family.
I believe that communist-sympathizers at the time believed that the evidence against Ethel Rosenberg was not as strong as that for her husband Julius. Evidently, Elizabeth Warren has adopted a position that only Communists would buy into back in the 50’s. And causes like this one, Hurricane Carter’s, Mumia Abu Jamal’s are clung to like religious dogma even though the evidence is so strongly against each of them.
the opposite is true, she was the most radical in the family and was the Kingpin of the operation. Connecting her brother in Los Alamos with her husband as secrets were passed. This was all absolutely proven when the venona papers were released in 91. And she loves Stalin more than her own kids. All she had to do to save her life was confess what happened.
She chose to die rather than betray the cause. Hope the bitch is still burning in hell
I believe Morton Sobell clung to this lie to his death in an effort to still portray this conviction of her as unjust.
There was this article I came across Rosenberg Lies Never Cease and while the author exposes himself in one respect with this sentence "...Although Senator Joe McCarthy was a drunk charlatan, it turns out Moscow really did possess a vast network of spies in 1940s America..." he is spot on with other aspects of this issue.
Joe McCarthy was an American Hero who gave his life for his cause, which was to highlight the fact that the "Red Scare" was nothing of what that title implied, but that communists had infiltrated all levels of our government and even the military in some areas...but all that is for another thread.)
Here are some excerpts from the article for the "She wasn't guilty" crowd (Gay State Conservative, I don't get the impression you are one of those, I understood you to be expressing what you have heard, which is expected in this):
That Ethel’s role in Soviet espionage went beyond sympathy was revealed in Message 1340 from New York to Moscow, sent on September 21, 1944. It discusses the possible recruitment of a new American agent:
I would defy anyone reading these internal KGB communications to regard Ethel Rosenberg as an "innocent" and her conviction and execution as unjust.
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