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Today in 1839,the famed “Curse of Tecumseh” aka “Curse of Tippecanoe” was issued by Shawnee Indian Tenskwatawa (also known as “The Prophet”)against “the Great White Father” for violating Indian treaties following the battle of Tippecanoe. The curse directed that every president elected in a year divisible by ‘20’ would die in office, beginning the curious cycle of American Presidential deaths. Alleged “victims” included Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. Who “broke” the curse? Ronald Reagan.
Today in 1847,Mormon pioneer William Clayton invented the modern odometer while crossing the plains in his covered wagon, because he got tired of counting the revolutions of a rag tied to a spoke of a wagon wheel to figure out how many miles he had traveled.
Julian Assange Should Not Be Pardoned
This year, there are some who are urging President Donald Trump to issue a pardon to Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. He should not do so under any circumstances. Pictured: Supporters of Assange protest in London on Sept. 7. (Photo: WIktor Szymanowicz/NurPhoto/Getty Images)
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John G. Malcolm is the vice president of the Institute for Constitutional Government and director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, overseeing The Heritage Foundation’s work to increase understanding of the Constitution and the rule of law. Read his research.
Every year at this time, presidents issue pardons, and some of the most controversial pardons have been issued when they are leaving office.
the question of whether he broke bad or was always in it for the lulls as the hackers say, and he just wanted to show he could pick every lock. if the lock was the e-mail of sarah palin, it showed nothing. or of podesta or hillary clinton. it was an equal-opportunity lock picker. he was doing it for jokes. what s surprising is to see, why and he, he was once hailed as a kind of hero of the left. i was working at a major newspaper when he came with the document dump, the diplomatic cables that ultimately didn t show that much, but it was like we were meeting with daniel ellsburg about the papers. the rights had to change their mind on so many the subjects. benjamin wittes had to say courageously in the atlantic that he changed his mind about now supreme court justice brett kavanaugh. i feel the same way about julian
breaking secrecy regulations by truth telling, by whistle blowing. edward snowden has called you an inspiration. do you view him as an inspiration as well. i certainly do. i think he s i was very pleased to hear that i had been in his mind at all when i saw th that on the news just yesterday. i called my wife to take a look at the computer. she said, you should take a picture of that. i m proud of that because edward snowden is a man that makes me proud to be an american, and that doesn t happen every day. daniel ellsburg, thank you for sharing your thoughts today. thank you very much. this weekend cnnmoney.com is relaunching with a brand new media section, so make sure to check it out. we have to sneak in a quick break here, but coming up, an old, controversial and kind of obscure idea. they call it the case for
the u.s. government does not allow whistleblowers like they allowed him to stay out of jail, to make their case to the public. if snowden came back to washington before he was convicted of anything, he would be disappearing in prison and not be allowed to speak. i want to know the answer to that question. why not try to work through the system in order to try to get his information public? ellsburg tried to work through the system he did. no. he didn t. he went and complained a little bit to some of his co-workers at the nsa, he says. that s all that he did. but let me give you an answer to the clapper question because you seem to be focused on it so fine, if you want to spend time doing that, we can. the answer to the clapper question is absolutely, if federal prosecutors believe that they could make a case under the perjury statute which i know that you know as well as i do, is a very difficult case to make that shows a knowing and material misrepresentation, then fine, go ri