Different cases - the Walkers gave away information on how the Yankees were stealing Russian secrets, which the Russians patched up by encrypting.
Really? Do you have a reference for this? I am interested.
The most current information on the Rosenbergs, gotten from decrypted Soviet communications and declassified US and ex-Soviet files, indicates that Ethel Rosenberg was probably innocent of spying, and Julius was spying but didn't give away any useful atomic secrets, and that the FBI probably knew at the time they had Ethel killed that she was innocent.
WOW! Had them killed? They WERE tried and convicted, you know. Are you claiming evidence was manufactured? I head David Khan on CSPAN say that at least one message mentions Ethel Rosenberg. If memory serves, he said something like "without going in to whether evidence was sufficient to convict, and without going in to whether they should have been executed, these transcripts show that they were spying for the Soviets" (I'm not sure that's accurate enough for quotation marks, but that's the basics of what he said. I have it on VCR. Do you have additional information? I'll agree the FBI hasn't always behaved honorably, and maybe they aren't entitled to the benefit of the doubt here. OTOH, actual, admitted facts to this effect might be a great reply to Mr. Freeh when he asks to be allowed to punish us when we make our mail so he can't read it. Rick F. Hoselton (who doesn't claim to present opinions for others)