Coulter: "I prefer a firing squad" for NY Times' Keller

Responding to radio host Melanie Morgan's assertion that if New York Times executive editor Bill Keller were convicted of treason she "would have no problem with him being sent to the gas chamber," right-wing pundit Ann Coulter wrote in her July 12 nationally syndicated column: "I prefer a firing squad, but I'm open to a debate on the method of execution." Coulter claimed that the Times should be charged with treason for publishing stories on the National Security Agency's warrantless domestic eavesdropping program and the Treasury Department's program to monitor international bank transactions, and concluded that "[a] conviction for treason would be assured under any sensible legal system." Read more