{"id":186581,"date":"2013-12-13T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T00:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/12\/13\/this-would-be-followed-by-a-suspicious-small-plane-crash\/"},"modified":"2013-12-13T19:42:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T00:42:00","slug":"this-would-be-followed-by-a-suspicious-small-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/12\/13\/this-would-be-followed-by-a-suspicious-small-plane-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"This Would Be Followed by a Suspicious Small Plane Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An NSA official has mooted the idea that Edward Snowden <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2013\/12\/13\/nsa-official-floats-possibility-of-striking-a-deal-with-edward-snowden\/\">be granted amnesty in exchange for his giving back all the documents<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A National Security Agency official said in an interview released Friday that he would be open to cutting an amnesty deal with intelligence leaker Edward Snowden if he agreed to stop divulging secret documents.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Rick Ledgett, who heads the NSA\u2019s task force investigating the damage from the Snowden leaks, told CBS television\u2019s \u201c60 Minutes\u201d program that some but not all of his colleagues share his view.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cMy personal view is, yes, it\u2019s worth having a conversation about\u201d a possible deal, said Ledgett, according to excerpts of the interview due to air Sunday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">But Snowden would have to provide firm assurances that the remaining documents would be secured.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cMy bar for those assurances would be very high\u2026 more than just an assertion on his part,\u201d said Ledgett.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And if Snowden were to accept this, and then return to the United States, they would find a way to imprison him or kill him anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Omerta must be enforced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An NSA official has mooted the idea that Edward Snowden be granted amnesty in exchange for his giving back all the documents: A National Security Agency official said in an interview released Friday that he would be open to cutting an amnesty deal with intelligence leaker Edward Snowden if he agreed to stop divulging secret &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1051,1129,972,1103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypocrisy","category-journalism","category-justice","category-secrecy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}