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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday January 18 2018, @02:08AM   Printer-friendly
from the leaks-like-a-sieve dept.

Ex-CIA officer arrested for retaining classified information

A former Central Intelligence Agency officer was arrested at a U.S. airport on Monday night in connection with charges that he illegally retained highly classified information, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday.

Jerry Chun Shing Lee, a U.S. citizen who now lives in Hong Kong, used to maintain a top secret clearance and began working for the CIA in 1994.

The Justice Department said that in 2012, FBI agents searched his hotel rooms during trips to Virginia and Hawaii. They discovered he had two small books containing handwritten information on details such as the true names and numbers of spy recruits and covert CIA employees.

Ex-C.I.A. Officer Suspected of Compromising Chinese Informants Is Arrested

A former C.I.A. officer suspected by investigators of helping China dismantle United States spying operations and identify informants has been arrested, the Justice Department said on Tuesday. The collapse of the spy network was one of the American government's worst intelligence failures in recent years.

You may remember this story: CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012

Also at BBC, SCMP, and Washington Post (archive).


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by c0lo on Thursday January 18 2018, @06:18AM (15 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 18 2018, @06:18AM (#624039) Journal

    Multiple people are now dead because of him,

    This needs to be proved beyond doubt.
    The "You may remember this story: CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012" is, so far, conjectural in regards with his responsibility into those deaths.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by aristarchus on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:29AM (11 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:29AM (#624066) Journal

    Are these people complaining about these alleged deaths of traitors to their own country, the same persons who were calling for a death penalty for Snowden or Manning? Our Irony Meter is broken, again!!

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:36AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:36AM (#624071)

      Use the coppery one next time, it withstands higher temperatures.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @10:12AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @10:12AM (#624081)

        Nah, you want tungsteny, titaniumy or nickely. You can't beat a good iconel pipe in your superheater. Cutting edge of 1970s technology.

        • (Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Thursday January 18 2018, @07:06PM

          by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday January 18 2018, @07:06PM (#624299) Journal

          Palladiamy? Palladiany? Doesn't roll off the tongue, though.

    • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @04:44PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @04:44PM (#624197)

      This is a fight between countries. Traitors get killed. China did it, killing Chinese traitors who were helping us.

      This guy, Snowden, and Manning were all traitors to the USA.

      We don't need people within our own nation helping our foes. It's incredibly serious, affecting the lives of all Americans, so such people have to die. If you disagree, you're probably one of them, perhaps not yet having found an opportunity to betray your country.

      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @05:30PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @05:30PM (#624233)

        > This guy, Snowden, and Manning were all traitors to the USA.

        Telling American people that their government is not following the Constitution is treason?

        > such people have to die

        Or we could imprison them. Of course, that isn't good for cavemen such as yourself.

        > If you disagree, you're probably one of them, perhaps not yet having found an opportunity to betray your country.

        Now not being a sociopath means I'm a traitor? You should really be locked up, you're a danger to a civilized society.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @07:46PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @07:46PM (#624323)

          Telling American people that their government is not following the Constitution is treason?

          Manning did not report anything that was constitutionally questionable.

          Snowden reported one thing that was, just barely, a constitutional violation. There was serious argument over it until we got a ruling from the supreme court. Reasonable people could see things differently.

          That one thing does not excuse all the other stuff Snowden dumped out. An evil person doesn't become good just because one single time they happened to do something good. If you disagree, you'll love Hitler.

          Snowden's leak was devastating for the USA. The affects are subtle and long-term. If the president lacks some info, he may make the wrong decision. This could get us into a war, or make us delay fighting one that needs to be fought. Our diplomatic operations will be uninformed. You see the results as other countries doing well relative to us, while we suffer general economic failure from a multitude of apparent causes, but you can not possibly connect it to Snowden because we can not even know what it is that we might have known.

      • (Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Thursday January 18 2018, @06:59PM

        by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday January 18 2018, @06:59PM (#624295) Journal

        you're probably one of them, perhaps not yet having found an opportunity to betray your country

        How quaint! My πατριά is Σάμος, but the idea of a "country" is somewhat ambiguous. Samos was part of the Ionian league, and later of the Delian League, but ended up under the control of various powers throughout history. The island has even been "betrayed" on occasion, yet it is still Samos.

        For myself, I spent much of my earlier years in the schools of Alexandria, where they had a great Library. But as a philosopher, I considered myself a citizen of the universe, not a petty partisan of pretentious patriotism. Governments and tyrants seem to be quite ept at dispensing death, but much worse at producing knowledge, beauty, or peace and justice.

    • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @05:26PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @05:26PM (#624230)

      Are these people complaining about these alleged deaths of traitors to their own country, the same persons who were calling for a death penalty for Snowden or Manning? Our Irony Meter is broken, again!!

      I want to make sure I'm understanding you correctly. Are you saying that "secretly told the Chinese the identity of people living in a China who are working for the US," and "released information to the world showing the US is breaking its own laws and spying on its own citizens" are equivalent?

    • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday January 18 2018, @06:29PM

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday January 18 2018, @06:29PM (#624271) Journal

      Also, conspiring with Russia undermine a US election is totally fine!

    • (Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Thursday January 18 2018, @10:55PM (1 child)

      by nitehawk214 (1304) on Thursday January 18 2018, @10:55PM (#624455)

      So you would never accept a turncoat to your side, and would send them back to be executed?

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      • (Score: 3, Interesting) by aristarchus on Thursday January 18 2018, @11:11PM

        by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday January 18 2018, @11:11PM (#624461) Journal

        Little known fact: Soviet defectors were called "Redhats" by US Intel during the Cold War. Fedoras were more of a '40s thing.

  • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Thursday January 18 2018, @03:05PM (2 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 18 2018, @03:05PM (#624158) Journal

    Sorry, but no. It only need be proved beyond a reasonable doubt.

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday January 19 2018, @12:34AM (1 child)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 19 2018, @12:34AM (#624493) Journal

      As opposed to "beyond any doubt one cannot reasons with" or what?

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19 2018, @06:58AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19 2018, @06:58AM (#624603)

        It has already been well established that Runaway understands nothing about his own country's legal system. I would not even bother to pay attention to his opinions on legal questions. He once suggested that it was not illegal, in the State of Arkansas, to have carnal relations with livestock that you personally owned. Or with your neighbor's livestock, as long as you compensated the owner. Yep, that's what Runaway1965 said, right 'cher on SoylentNews. Seemed to be a Porcine preference.