[Re: On John Walker]

[DsR]

Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote:
> > The real question is what to charge him with.
> 
> I would presume treason.  18 USC 2381.
> 
> It's cool that not only is death the penalty, but you also
> can't hold an office anymore either.
> 
> http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/unframed/18/2381.html
> 
> But I'm not a lawyer.

 
And I'm not an ethicist, so explain to me what makes the treason of John
Walker, Taliban fighter, more or less worthy of the death penalty than the
treason of another Walker (as in USN Walker, Sr. Chief, crypto) or the CIA's
Aldrich Ames?  Ames sold out and betrayed countless more lives for cash than
this pitiful young Taliban Walker, and  Ames is living out his sentence,
courtesy of the U.S. citizenry.  

 - Deb R.

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