{"id":76,"date":"2013-06-17T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/17\/due-process-takes-back-seat"},"modified":"2013-06-17T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T18:45:00","slug":"due-process-takes-back-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Due process takes back seat"},"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>Dick Cheney has thrown out the t-word to describe Edward Snowden, the man at the center of a controversy involving the leaking of classified National Security Agency information.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/06\/17\/edward-snowden-dick-cheney_n_3454632.html?ncid=txtlnkushpmg00000037\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/06\/17\/edward-snowden-dick-cheney_n_3454632.html?ncid=txtlnkushpmg00000037\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/06\/17\/edward-snowden-dick-cheney_n_3454632.html?ncid=txtlnkushpmg00000037<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The former vice president made his remarks on Fox News Sunday, the news talk show that\u2019s a favorite venue for Republican politicians to vent their anger.<\/p>\n<p>Snowden \u201cis a traitor,\u201d Cheney said, alluding to the secrets the man has released that in Cheney\u2019s view have put Americans at risk.<\/p>\n<p>I am struck immediately by something about Cheney\u2019s accusation. It simply is this: due process.<\/p>\n<p>No one has accused Snowden officially of treason. No one has filed charges. If convicted of treason, a traitor faces the death penalty. It\u2019s arguably the most serious crime imaginable short of murdering someone.<\/p>\n<p>The Constitution &#8212; which Cheney has sworn to uphold and defend as a member of Congress, defense secretary and then vice president &#8212; lays out the requirement for every criminal defendant to be given the right of due process. <\/p>\n<p>I have no earthly idea whether Edward Snowden is guilty of any crime, let alone treason. He well might be a traitor. However, doesn\u2019t the Constitution provide a mechanism to prove such a thing beyond a reasonable doubt?<\/p>\n<p>Dick Cheney has gotten way ahead of that process.<\/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>Dick Cheney has thrown out the t-word to describe Edward Snowden, the man at the center of a controversy involving the leaking of classified National Security Agency information. http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/06\/17\/edward-snowden-dick-cheney_n_3454632.html?ncid=txtlnkushpmg00000037 The former vice president made his remarks on Fox News Sunday, the news talk show that\u2019s a favorite venue for Republican politicians to vent their anger. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=76\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Due process takes back seat<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","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=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}