tags: "whistle blowers", heroic patriotic dissenters?
J.B. Willaims:
The US Constitution defines the act of treason as follows, "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort." [Article III, section 3.]
The last time America charged and prosecuted anyone for the act of treason was in 1947. Hans Max Haupt was convicted of treason and sentenced to life in prison for aiding his son who was a spy for Germany during World War II. The son, Herbert Hans Haupt, was tried, convicted, and executed by a military tribunal. The elder Haupt helped his son find a job, gave him a place to live, and bought him a car, all while knowing that his son was working as a German spy. The government argued that the father supported his son's espionage by committing acts of aid and comfort to the enemy. Haupt's trial was the last treason case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.
*Mark Mazzetti
Canada Free Press Mark Mazzetti, New York Times Time for a Treason Trial?
by J.B. Williams Wednesday, September 27, 2006
The US Constitution defines the act of treason as follows, "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort." [Article III, section 3.]
The last time America charged and prosecuted anyone for the act of treason was in 1947. Hans Max Haupt was convicted of treason and sentenced to life in prison for aiding his son who was a spy for Germany during World War II. The son, Herbert Hans Haupt, was tried, convicted, and executed by a military tribunal. The elder Haupt helped his son find a job, gave him a place to live, and bought him a car, all while knowing that his son was working as a German spy. The government argued that the father supported his son's espionage by committing acts of aid and comfort to the enemy. Haupt's trial was the last treason case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.
If a political operative opposed to American policy broke into the CIA, stole TOP SECRET files that included sensitive war related intelligence reports and shared them with American enemies, who benefited by that information during a time when the US was engaged in battle, every American in this country would call this an overt act of treason....Yet when a news reporter, working in secret collusion with a rogue CIA employee, sneaks TOP SECRET sensitive intelligence briefings out of CIA headquarters and broadcasts them on world-wide television, or plasters them all over the front page of every newspaper in the world, both embarrassing the nation they call home and providing direct aid and comfort via shared TOP SECRET security information to every enemy around the globe, some Americans call these people "whistle blowers", heroic patriotic dissenters?...
One such reporter is Mark Mazzetti, who reports for such lofty clients as World News, and the NY and LA Times. Mazzetti's latest scoop is the much publicized NY Times headline Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terrorism Threat, [Sept. 23 — A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.] based entirely upon "leaked" fragments from a nine-page CIA report, allegedly titled "Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States,'' allegedly shared with Mazzetti by a CIA employee sworn to secrecy, who remains nameless and faceless...His previous scoops include numerous "leaked" headlines concerning so-called classified national security information supposedly available to only the most trusted members of the US government. Mazzetti seems to be the most valuable asset to both America's enemies and the Democratic Party, both immediately out in force working his headlines for political gain before the ink is even dry.
Mazzetti has spent a lot of time digging up anything that would undermine America's war on terror, which means, providing aid and comfort to America's enemies, always from secret sources inside the US government. In fact, Mazzetti has yet to write a pro-American piece concerning the war against those who attacked us on 911 or those who would attack again. Our most secure information is not protected, but those who leak it
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