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Ex-CIA Director Says Snowden Should Be 'Hanged' For Paris Attacks (thehill.com)
SonicSpike writes with this excerpt from The HIll: 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 information 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.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/260817-ex-cia-director-snowden-should-be-hanged-for-paris
The NSA performs a vital function. The problem is that they are supposed to have congressional oversight to keep them under control. Congress has failed miserably to do it's job in this as well as pretty much everything else they are supposed to be doing.
Your link doesn't go anywhere, which makes me think that it's a retracted story based on the initial announcement, which turned out to be incorrect.
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Actually, the Paris police said they were not using encryption. This was reported on CNN. In addition, the Xbox encrypted comm. story turned out to be false as well.
Whistleblowing laws are irrelevant since Snowden has been accused under the espionage act. He is not allowed to defend his actions, only to deny them which would be absurd. So the outcome of the trial is predetermined: no judge is going to state that he does not believe Snowden and considers him not guilty of doing what he always admitted to have done.
Under the espionage act, there is nothing but a show trial with predetermined "guilty" verdict in stock for Snowden. No judge or jury can reasonably change that. The government has decided that he will not get a fair trial, and the espionage act is the tool for making sure that he won't.
Bullshit. The point is that they were spying on EVERYONE. And being lazy about it.
Checking SPECIFIC people whom you have a VALID REASON to suspect is different.
The amount of data they're collecting is impossible to process in any useful fashion UNTIL AFTER SOMETHING HAPPENS.
Unless you want to spy on your ex-girlfriend or the cute barista who isn't interested in you. Too many opportunities for abuse.
All those arrests came after good ole police detective work. None of those cases were aided by mass surveillance and the US has admitted as much.
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Not too late to try *him* for treason.. Him and a vast majority of the previous and current administrations should be behind bars for treason.... Just my (and a lot of other Americans) opinion...
THANK YOU, Edward Snowden!! Americans owe you a debt of gratitude (whether they know it or not..)
Woolsey is part of the reason Americans were in favor of invadiing Iraq; he made comments about Iraqi complicity in 9/11 the VERY NEXT DAY and on several more occasions over the next few years.
Whatever he wishes for Snowden should be tried on him 1st.
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Exactly. Friends in the security business tell me that these data mining leads have large negative value, because they require human effort to follow up on, and so far have a 0% success rate, meaning the pull resources away from more productive leads. Unfortunately the non-technical leadership LOVES the idea of data mining magically finding the bad guys, and keep pushing the programs forward.
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