Congressman - Executing Pentagon Papers Leaker Daniel Ellsberg Should Have Been Considered

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/rep-rogers-says-daniel-el_b_669825.html

During an August 3, 2010 Interview on MSNBC by Cenk Uygur (host of The Young Turks, and MSNBC contributor) Republican Congressman Mike Rogers, member of Select Intelligence Committee and former FBI special agent called for the Capital Punishment for Private Manning for the crime of treason and also said that we should have executed Daniel Ellsberg the leaker of the Pentagon Papers.

- while discussing the topic of whether or not Private Bradley Manning should get capital punishment...

[2:48] Congressman Rogers: If he is convicted of treason I absolutely would support capital punishment.

[2:54] Cenk: So would you have supported the execution of Daniel Ellsberg for leaking the Pentagon Papers?

[3:00] Congressman Rogers: Well I don't know all the circumstances around it, if it was information that certainly put soldiers at risk in the field and he was convicted of treason absolutely, and you know here's the thing, when something is leaked that you find useful in the media or somebody finds useful in the media that seems to be some moral equivalent of being okay, the problem is it creates this culture of disclosure in the military...

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[soldout83]

Keep quiet of the atrocities you have seen or you will be executed. Lovely.

[norvman]

Why are we not prosecuting every member of the CIA?

after all they have endangered every member, if not all the members, of the Military by getting us into wars and conflicts. on misinformation... and Dirty Tricks... (Nukes in Iraq... The Gulf of Tonkin.. Bay of Pigs...) So sure lets hang Ellsberg but not until we have hung every member of the CIA and shut them down.

[daveusaz1218]

@jshalom65 I have to agree with you, These politicians make laws to make their un American activities legal, like taking money from corporations to vote their way or create laws in their favor and when sombody complains about it, they hide behind the laws that they created to cover their corruption and make it legal. So I want to know the same thing, What about these corrupt/ bought and paid for politicians controlled by the elite psychopaths that want to rule the world.

[daveusaz1218]

Manning did not give anything to an enemy nor did Ellsberg and there are assholes like this Rep. Rogers talking about capitol punishment. Manning and Ellsberg are heros. The people that should be on trial for treason are the politicians that lie to the American people and insure the profits of the military industrial complex, Fed Res, banks, wall street, insurance companies and corporations over the well being of American taxpayers.

[bebopbountyhead]

Thank god our country makes its decisions solely on the will of the mothers sending their sons into combat. Arguments like these are spawned of aggressive, impulsive minds, minds who value successful conflict over peaceful coexistance. Disgusting.

[awesomesana]

@asynkronos "Pentagon and DoD staff busted with child porn on their work computers in 2010"

O_O' are you serious? WTF!

[asynkronos]

@awesomesana Same here. Rogers and Obama don't mention the military's unethical recruitment tactics and psychopathic-killer indoctrination of new recruits or 20% rate of PTSD among soldiers returning from the Middle East. Most of our soldiers die from ACCIDENTS and SUICIDE!!! They neglect to mention the hundreds of Pentagon and DoD staff busted with child porn on their work computers in 2010, who were not prosecuted despite funding child sexual abuse and endangering our national security.

[asynkronos]

U.S. officials' arrogance is mind-boggling. Culture of disclosure? Absolutely! Rogers wants a CULTURE OF SECRECY to cover up their WAR RACKET. He wants us to forget that he and other congressmen are our PUBLIC SERVANTS, not our masters. WE have paid $1.2 TRILLION for their wars since 9/11. He and other prevaricating parasites who think they can lord it over us need to be pursued with vigor and shown who is boss. How dare they bullshit us? Where in HELL do these evil fuckwits come from?

[awesomesana]

If I was a soldiers mother I would be concerned if my son or daughter was being conditioned to be a cold blooded murderer.

[jshalom65]

What about the actions taken by our corrupt,bought-off politicians controlled by the greedy power elites that put our guys and gals in harm's way in the first damn place?

[evil001987]

If they execute Manning and Assange suddenly dies in a "accident". How will americans react? I mean, they seam to not react to the bullshit being said now...