NSA whistleblower answered questions for the Guardian audience today, addressing Dick Cheney calling him a "traitor" as "highest honor". "Cheney’s choice to criticize Snowden as a traitor is rather interesting. A war crime is defined as an action carried out during the conduct of a war that violates accepted international rules of war. War criminals are those that sanction, supervise, perform or defend illegal actions. In April, an independent, bi-partisan Washington-based panel implicated Cheney in violations of U.S. and international treaties for sanctioning “enhanced interrogation” which produced minimal information of value. The former Vice President was tried and found guilty in absentia of war crimes last year in an international court. Human rights groups abroad protest his appearances to the point that he has difficulty traveling abroad. Though he swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, he justifies the Bush administration’s destruction of constitutional rule of law and asserts that torture, extrajudicial kidnapping and detention, the militarization of America’s justice system, and eroding of the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments were necessary to keep America safe."
Posted on: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:29:16 +0000
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