...to be hanged.

WASHINGTON – 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."

http://www.foxnews.c...intcmp=latestnews

For my own part, I think that Snowden is easily a hundred times the patriot that Woolsey is, and that in a just world Woolsey and his ilk would occupy Milosevic's old cell block at The Hague.

Question for Another Scott: If the men who wrote the US Constitution, resurrected and brought up to speed on current events, sat in judgment on the two men, which one do you suppose they would regard as more faithful to the model of government-to-governed relations they laid out? If your answer is "Woolsey," I would be fascinated to read your reasoning laid out at any length you might wish. If your answer is that they couldn't possibly appreciate the realities of this century that require the protections they wrote into that document to be eviscerated, why I'd read that with great interest as well.

cordially,

...that Madison would regard Woolsey as far worse than the worst of George III's ministers. Do we not submit in America today to usurpations of our personal liberties on a scale undreamt of by the despots of that distant century? Regarding "sacred honor," the notion that Madison would be unable to distinguish between fidelity to the principles of the Constitution and the legalese of security boilerplate extorted by an instrument of naked tyranny, as he would certainly have regarded the NSA—well, it is to laugh. I'm a little disappointed,

cordially,