Justice or a political solution

[erebus]

Bradley Manning received a 35-year prison sentence who maintained that his actions were driven by his desire to expose brutality and wrongdoing being carried out by America's military and diplomatic corps. So far so good, or is it?

 

What about real spies, who sold secrets knowingly to “The Enemy”???

 

So lets play a game of compare forms of justice….

 

 

William Colton Millay, 16 years for attempting to sell secrets to a Russian spy. He

pleaded guilty earlier this year to attempted espionage and other counts, after selling secrets to an FBI undercover agent whom he believed was a Russian spy. The U.S. Army policeman had faced a maximum sentence of confinement for up to life without the possibility of parole.

 

 

David Henry Barnett, 18 years for selling classified documents to Soviet officials, during the 1970s. Barnett, a former CIA agent, revealed the identities of some 30 CIA officers and other classified information to the KGB in exchange for money. Hired by the CIA, before finally being outed as a spy. Barnett pleaded guilty to espionage charges in 1980, and served 10 years before being paroled in 1990.

 

Harold James Nicholson, 23 years for providing highly classified information to Russia

The highest ranking CIA official ever convicted of spying for a foreign power, Nicholson was apprehended in 1996 at a Washington-area airport with rolls of film bearing images of Top Secret documents. He was subsequently charged with espionage and accused of having taken up a two-and-a-half year operation to hack into agency computers and provide the Russians with every secret he could steal. He was ultimately convicted of espionage, and later sentenced to additional years in prison after pleading guilty to betraying his country a second time.

 

Ana Belen Montes, 25 years for passing classified information to Cuba's government for 17 years. Montes, an analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency, carried out a dynamic spy operation for Cuba. She was caught in 2001, and later plead guilty to espionage.

 

Earl Edwin Pitts, 27 years for giving classified information to Russian intelligence services During the late '80s and early '90s, Pitts, then an FBI special agent, spied for Russia, providing agents with Top Secret documents and information about key bureau assets. Pitts was alleged to have received $224,000 in payments for the information he gave between 1987 and 1992. He was caught in 1996, and pleaded guilty to two counts of espionage in 1997.

 

Michael Peri, 30 years for passing defense secrets to communist East Germany. Peri, a US Army specialist, disappeared from his Germany-based regiment with a portable computer thought be filled with sensitive information. He was believed to have defected, but returned less than two weeks later and was arrested. He would eventually plead guilty to espionage.

 

Clayton Lonetree, 30 years for delivering classified information from American embassies to Soviet agents abouyt US embassy blueprints and the names and identities of undercover intelligence agents to the Soviet Union. Lonetree's initial 30-year sentence was eventually reduced, and he was finally released in 1996 after serving nine years.

 

Albert Sombolay, 34 years for giving a Jordanian intelligence agent key information about the U.S. military buildup ahead of the first Persian Gulf War. He was a specialist 4th class with the Army artillery, ultimately pleaded guilty to charges of espionage and contacting the enemy. He was reportedly paid "about $1,300 for his activities," and had attempted to get in touch with Iraqi intelligence officials as well. Somobolay ultimately served 12 years of his sentence.

 

 

THe main information was copied, not the spin, but it allows one to see a bigger picture, and make up one's own mind, maybe regarding the term FAIRNESS, a word sadly out of fashion

[altus]

THe main information was copied, not the spin, but it allows one to see a bigger picture, and make up one's own mind, maybe regarding the term FAIRNESS, a word sadly out of fashion

 

You still haven't got the idea behind posting a link to where you copy stuff from so we can decide how trustworthy the information is have you?