Don't you feel a little sorry for him?

What he did was Treason. Bottom line. You are right though, he doesn't deserve to be locked away by himself for 23 hours a day. He deserves the death penalty.

Spies are traditionally executed. That would be the alternative. That's what can be done on a battlefield in wartime. Spies continue to be dangerous, even after they are caught, because they can still divulge information. Keeping him locked up in 23 hour a day lockdown is par for the course.

In terms of human contact, the only human contact the man has are with prison staff. He gets monitored visits behind glass with family several times a year, and can write letters to them (again, monitored).

Keep in mind, that this man is known to have been responsible for at least 3 deaths, and exposed at least 50 US agents. In addition, we know for a fact that secrets that he sold to the Russians, like the PROMIS software, eventually wound up in the hands of Al Qaeda, and God knows who else, through the Russian black market. They used some of that to set up their underground financial network, which was used to fund, among other things, 9/11. That's an indirect link, but a real one. Ultimately, we'll never know the full extent of the damage that this man did to the country, some of which probably still has yet to occur.

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No, not at all. Not even one little bit.
And neither should you.

Well...
He was doing the his job, he turned it upside down (switched the sides) and kept doing the same good job for the other side. Not good enough, obviously, since he got caught.
Death penalty is on-the-surface solution, but is really a waste of a great mind. Anybody disagree that man able to be undiscovered by counterintelligence in two decades has a great mind? The solitary confinement is another solution and a better one, I think. He might be doing some work in his field, but in controlled environment.
And, of cource, nobody will know what is the deal, why he's still alive and the real amount of traded secrets, unless they are involved in the case to the fullest extent.
Not sorry for him - for his type of mind solitude isn't a punishment.

Movie is mediocre, like any on the subject of intelligence. Not too bad, but lacks intelligence part of intelligence services. :)

He should not be in prison. He should be buried in a pauper's Grave.

What I totally fail to understand is why a man of Hannsen's obvious caliber would allow his fingerprints to be on any document at all. I mean, this is Defense 101!

Either we are not being told the truth, or he did a physical drop just prior to retiring to expose the "sleeping tiger."

A man of his capabilities, which are similar to mine, would never even consider driving alone to a drop sight, 1950's style, and planting documents of critical importance to the national security in a manner from some B-grade movie, or Lee Harvey Oswald caliber.

He could have used many means to overwhelm the agency, or to get the data across via a distant ham radio station or other means that would leave no trail whatsoever. I know of other means that I will not list here, because this post is world-wide, after all.

I do not believe that the final drop occured the way it is being told, or, if it is, likely a MAD magazine was in the package and they prosecuted him for his prior offenses.

He would be "dumb as a bag of hammers" to do what he did as shown, and dumb he is not.

i agree. he shouldn't be spending 23 hours a day in lockdown, he should be dead. you say he didn't "directly" kill anyone? so, if i hire someone to kill you, and they succeed, because i didn't actually pull the trigger, i shouldn't be punished? FYI, betraying america, in the way he did, affects more people that killing someone. you should really think about what you're saying before you post.

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