Manning trial sets execution precedent for future whistleblowers

[lovuian]

http://rt.com/op-edge/manning-trial-precedent-execution-whistleblowers-347/

The decision to pursue a charge of aiding and abetting the enemy against whistleblower Bradley Manning opens the door to future whistleblowers facing execution, Jeff Paterson, director of Courage to Resist told RT.

[FSogol]

1. Bullshit.

More RT bullshit.

[lovuian]

2. Leniency for Generals, Jail Time for Whistleblowers

the FBI found out that Petraeus shared more than a bed with Broadwell — likely his emails, rife with classified information,

Top Secret information ......

[FSogol]

3. You said execution, not jail time. What traitor or whistle blower has been executed in the last

50 years?

[Nevernose]

5. I don't know what "rt" is.

Wild you mind expanding?

[FSogol]

6. Russian Times. Putin's Official News Service. n/t

[AllINeedIsCoffee]

4. Does it open the door to rockstars facing imprisonment? nt

[lovuian]

7. She served as a sort of social ambassador for U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Fla.

A Pentagon investigation has cleared Gen. John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, of professional misconduct in exchanging emails with a civilian woman linked to the sex scandal that led retired Gen. David Petraeus to resign as CIA director.

The matter had been referred to the Pentagon in November by the FBI during the course of its investigation of emails between Petraeus and his biographer-turned-paramour, Paula Broadwell. The FBI turned up thousands of emails between Allen and Jill Kelley, who was said to have received threatening emails from Broadwell.

At the time, officials said 20,000 to 30,000 pages of emails and other documents from Allen's communications with Kelley between 2010 and 2012 were in question. None of the emails have been made public.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/22/john-allen-cleared_n_2529511.html

A social ambassador .....any job openings and how much do you get ?

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8. Let's look at the two dozen Federal executions in the last 60 years:

In the military:

Robert Burns hanged January 1954 for murder and rape
Herman Dennis, Jr hanged January 1954 for murder and rape
Chastine Beverly hanged March 1955 for robbery and premeditated murder
Louis M. Suttles hanged March 1955 for robbery andpremeditated murder
James L. Riggins hanged March 1955 for robbery, premeditated murder
Thomas J. Edwards hanged February 1957 for premeditated murder
Winfred D. Moore hanged February 1957 for murder and assault with intent to commit robbery
Ernest L. Ranson hanged April 1957 for premeditated murder, rape, robbery and other offenses
Abraham Thomas hanged July 1958 for four counts premeditated murder
John E. Day, Jr hanged September 1959 for murder and premeditated assault
John A. Bennett hanged April 1961 for rape and premeditated attempted murder

Of civilians:

Albert Allen electrocuted March 1953 for murder and robbery
Julius Rosenberg electrocuted June 1953 for espionage
Ethel Rosenberg electrocuted June 1953 for espionage
Carl Austin Hall gassed December 1953 for kidnapping and murder
Bonnie Brown Heady gassed December 1953 for murder
Gerhard Puff electrocution August 1954 for murder
Arthur Ross Brown gassed February 1956 for kidnapping
Robert Carter electrocuted April 1957 for robbery and murder
George Krull electrocuted August 1957 for kidnapping
Michael Krull electrocuted August 21, 1957 for rape
Victor Feguer hanged March 1963 for kidnapping
Timothy McVeigh injected June 2001 for eight counts of murder
Juan Raul Garza injected June 2001 for murder and ordering murders in conjunction with drug-smuggling
Louis Jones, Jr injected March 2003 rape and murder

The military hasn't executed anyone in over fifty years. There hasn't been a federal execution on a non-murder charge in fifty years, though the Bennett and Feguer hangings are only a few months over fifty years ago. There have been three Federal executions in the last thirteen years, all for murder, and all at least a decade ago