{"id":6294,"date":"2008-12-17T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T04:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=6294"},"modified":"2008-12-18T05:52:20","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T10:52:20","slug":"nsa-surveillance-leaker-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=6294","title":{"rendered":"NSA Surveillance Leaker Identified [COB6]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patterico<\/a> has a great piece up on what should be done with this particular scumbag.<\/p>\n

But, speaking as someone who believes the NSA surveillance program was probably illegal \u2013but who recognizes that there are legitimate arguments to the contrary \u2014 I think he\u2019s a criminal. And Isikoff\u2019s story reinforces my view strongly. Because the article (together with other research I have done on Tamm, set forth below) shows him to be an anti-Bush partisan who didn\u2019t even know the details of the program, but notified reporters in part because of an anti-Bush bias, and a disagreement with other actions by the Bush Administration, some of which were indisputably legal. Isikoff tells us:<\/p>\n

Tamm concedes he was also motivated in part by his anger at other Bush-administration policies at the Justice Department, including its aggressive pursuit of death-penalty cases and the legal justifications for \u201cenhanced\u201d interrogation techniques that many believe are tantamount to torture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So he was motivated to disclose a secret program in part because of a perfectly legal aggressive approach to the death penalty that he just happened to disagree with. Hmmm.<\/p>\n

Uncle Jimbo, one of my partners in crime from Blackfive, also weighed in:<\/p>\n

We now have the name of someone who almost certainly broke a number of laws to salve his own spineless conscience. I vote for flogging then hanging, but I’m a little touchy about national security.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As most of you know I am a very sensitive person and would certainly never condone hanging a US citizen for exercising his freedom of speech.<\/p>\n

Stop laughing and work with me people.<\/p>\n

The problem is that this wasn\u2019t an act of free speech, it was nothing less than treason.<\/p>\n

And treason pisses me off!<\/p>\n

Tamm admits in the interview that he didn\u2019t know what the program was all about and that he was upset that Isikoff didn\u2019t run the story in time to undermine the President in the 2004 election.<\/p>\n

What do you call it when a \u201cwhistle blower\u201d has no idea what a program is but leaks it anyway to influence an election and undermine a Commander in Chief during a time of war? Treason. Fairly simple actually, simple treason.<\/p>\n

Treason has always been a fairly big deal in our country. In fact, it is the only crime specifically outlined in the Constitution (Article 3, Section III).<\/p>\n

Of course the penalty for treason is death (as it should be) and some states still allow Uncle Jimbo\u2019s recommendation of hanging. Naturally, I view hanging as barbaric and so 18th century.<\/p>\n

I was actually thinking more like the 15th century.<\/p>\n

Specifically, a solution made famous by Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia. Remember his solution for treason (and even minor misdemeanors for that matter) was impaling.<\/p>\n

For those of you unfamiliar with the art of impaling, please do an image search of the good Prince. You will quickly see why I think it would be so appropriate during this festive time of year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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