Equal Justice for Petraeus and Snowden?
The sweetheart deal the Justice Department gave to former CIA Director David Petraeus for leaking top secret information compared to the stiff jail sentences other low-level leakers have received under the Obama administration has led to renewed calls for leniency for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. And no one makes the case better than famed whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg.
Ellsberg, the first person ever charged under the Espionage Act or any other statute for leaking the Pentagon Papers to Congress and 17 newspapers, told me on Thursday: “The factual charges against [Edward Snowden] are not more serious, as violations of the classification regulations and non-disclosure agreements, than those Petraeus has admitted to, which are actually quite spectacular.”Equal Justice for Petraeus and Snowden?
March 6, 2015
The Justice Department’s decision to let ex-CIA Director Petraeus off with a hand slap for giving his mistress highly sensitive secrets raises questions about the harsh punishments meted out to lower-level leakers/truth-tellers — and the threat of a long prison term for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, writes Trevor Timm.
By Trevor Timm https://consortiumnews.com/2015/03/06/equal-justice-for-petraeus-and-snowden/
Is it me, or can't people distinguish what our government will do to a person's whistle blowing after discovery of unlawful spying programs versus a decorated general who can't keep it in his pants providing his girlfriend top secret information?
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From what star chamber did you get THIS?
purely by accident? Or because their hot girlfriend nagged them?
refused to turn him over to the US. He was traveling to SA, NOT Russia, and it serves no purpose to lie about or to not take the trouble to find out, what the facts of the story are.
When he landed in Moscow, his passport was no longer operable, so it was the US Govt that stranded him in Russia.
Now why would they do that? How convenient for a 'spy' (thanks Rep Rogers, he still hasn't provided the proof he was asked for that ridiculous lie) for his government to get him exactly to where he wanted to go?? 
Either that was a stupid mistake, or they WANTED him Russia. But HE wanted to go to S. America.
You need to update your information on this story.
He saw wrongdoing in a Government Agency and he became a Whistle Blower.
Having watched over the past decade how this country treats Whistle Blowers, including those who did everything by the book, he sought political asylum outside the country.
It happens all the time when countries abuse the rights of Whistle Blowers and rather than protect them under the law, silence, even torture them (see Chelsea Manning).
Perhaps you can educate me…. Which one of these committed unintentional manslaughter and which committed murder in the first degree, now?
