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