THE TRAITOR

Brian Patrick Regan of Bowie, MD, was an Air Force Master Sergeant, and later a civilian contractor, who had access to some of our country's most sensitive data. He had access to intelligence about Iraq's and China's military and the times that that data was acquired. With a mounting debt likely brought on by simply spending more money than he made, he made a fateful decision to turn his access into cash. He offered to sell American intelligence data to its enemies. Fortunately, he got caught before transferring any of that data, and has been convicted of his crimes.

This man deserves the death penalty.

Whatever the jury ultimately decides, it's clear that he sold out his country to help himself. It's clear that he values his own well-being above that of his countrymen, and is willing to sell us out in a time of war. There are no excuses for what he has done. When he entered the Air Force, he took an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. In offering to sell America's knowledge, he became one of those enemies himself. He took the trust that his country had placed in him, and spat on it.

Brian Patrick Regan deserves to die for his crimes.