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.

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Snowden a distraction from actual culprits ..

[nickweller]

Exploiting Emotions About Paris to Blame Snowden, Distract from Actual Culprits Who Empowered ISIS

There is NO "War on Terror"
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PROTHERO: Do you believe this crap, Dascombe? DASCOMBE: It's not our job to believe it, Lewis. Our job is to tell the people –

Not a psychopath...

[Etherwalk]

Not a psychopath, just a propagandist. The idea is pretty simple: connect whistleblowing of illegal government surveillance to Paris terrorist attacks in order to assist your political positions on (1) being anti-encryption, (2) being pro-surveillance, and (3) being anti-whistleblower. He's blatantly violating his oath to defend the Constitution but is doing that because his (former) job is a lot harder if he has to follow the Constitution--and all the people who died in France, the CIA didn't see it coming, maybe because of Snowden.

Of course, if the NSA hadn't been collecting massive illegal surveillance of *Americans*, Snowden probably wouldn't have happened. While Snowden should be held to account for leaking classified information, the biggest blame by far goes to the NSA and the Senate Intelligence Committee for failure to oversee it properly.

Majority:
        Richard Burr, North Carolina, Chair
        Jim Risch, Idaho
        Dan Coats, Indiana
        Marco Rubio, Florida
        Susan Collins, Maine
        Roy Blunt, Missouri
        James Lankford, Oklahoma
        Tom Cotton, Arkansas

Minority:
        Dianne Feinstein, California, Vice Chair
        Ron Wyden, Oregon
        Barbara Mikulski, Maryland
        Mark Warner, Virginia
        Martin Heinrich, New Mexico
        Angus King, Maine[9]
        Mazie Hirono, Hawaii

Ex officio:
        John McCain, Arizona
        Mitch McConnell, Kentucky
        Jack Reed, Rhode Island
        Harry Reid, Nevada

Re: Sounds like a psycopath.

[skywire]

Ernest Becker, in his The Denial of Death, writes that human beings deal with their awareness of their inevitable demise by seeking heroism -- success at doing or contributing to something lasting. Each culture has its own hero-system. In a pluralist society, if one's need for heroism is not being met, one will turn to a system that does meet that need.