Posted by SleepingHare on 5/9/2004, 10:50 pm, in reply to "I've read similar stories"
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I take a hard line when it comes to treason. Individuals should be free to communicate as they please in their private lives. However, that ceases to hold true when they take a job with the government and gain access to classified information. It doesn't matter what their intentions are. When they pass classified information to a hostile foreign power without the permission of their superiors they are committing treason and they should be punished to the full extent of the law. I agree with you that the article I linked to was heavily biased and it seems implausible from White's career that he was a communist, but that does not mean he should be excused if he broke the law. If he was in a position of importance and continued to pass sensitive information to the Soviets without permission he would be a major risk to US security.
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