{"id":48,"date":"2013-06-22T22:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T22:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/22\/presumed-guilty-in-this-instance"},"modified":"2013-06-22T22:39:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T22:39:00","slug":"presumed-guilty-in-this-instance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Presumed guilty in this instance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has lined up right alongside the likes of former Vice President Dick Cheney in convicting someone who hasn\u2019t even been tried \u2013 yet \u2013 for committing a crime against the state.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/06\/22\/nancy-pelosi-booed_n_3484062.html?show_comment_id=263057168#comment_263057168sb=1147791b=facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/06\/22\/nancy-pelosi-booed_n_3484062.html?show_comment_id=263057168#comment_263057168sb=1147791b=facebook\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/06\/22\/nancy-pelosi-booed_n_3484062.html?show_comment_id=263057168#comment_263057168sb=1147791b=facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pelosi, a California Democrat, drew boos and heckling when she said Edward Snowden, the man behind the leaking of National Security Agency secrets, has broken the law. Pelosi\u2019s comments came not many days after Cheney called Snowden a \u201ctraitor\u201d because, the ex-VP said, he has spilled the beans on vital national security secrets.<\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t yet fully grasped the entire story here, but were I come from, every human being on the planet \u2013 in the eyes of U.S. law and our very own Constitution \u2013 enjoys a presumption of innocence before any court hands down a conviction. That doesn\u2019t seem to apply to Snowden, who\u2019s apparently hiding in Hong Kong to avoid the long arm of U.S. law.<\/p>\n<p>Snowden has been charged by the feds with espionage. He faces a very lengthy prison term if he\u2019s convicted. But he\u2019s not yet been tried, let alone sent up the river for any crime. <\/p>\n<p>The law is supposed to provide a suspect a bit of protection against those willing to tighten the noose. <\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has lined up right alongside the likes of former Vice President Dick Cheney in convicting someone who hasn\u2019t even been tried \u2013 yet \u2013 for committing a crime against the state. http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/06\/22\/nancy-pelosi-booed_n_3484062.html?show_comment_id=263057168#comment_263057168sb=1147791b=facebook Pelosi, a California Democrat, drew boos and heckling when she said Edward Snowden, the man behind the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Presumed guilty in this instance<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}