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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19 2018, @02:53AM (6 children)
We're talking legal actions, so I provided my opinion on the laws. Which is narrow, since that's how laws are supposed to be viewed.
Islam isn't at war with the world. Some Muslims are attacking groups that they think are, or have a history of, interfering with their homelands, or religion, or sacred sites. Which, while that does cover the USA and most of Europe, is not the whole world. Islam may have an evangelical component that encourages Muslims to try and convert the world, but so does Christianity. Which, by the way, did a fair job of attacking most of the world itself not that long ago, even the bits that weren't interfering with the homelands, religion, or sacred sites of any Christians.
I also don't think there's a war on crime, drugs, minorities, immigrants, men, women, or whatever the headlines and political rhetoric du jour is.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday January 19 2018, @03:08AM (5 children)
What a load of horse shit. Warfare has moved so far beyond you and your legal definitions, that you are left floundering like a fish out of water. Go look up "asymmetric warfare", and see if you can get a clue. While you and the rest if the flounder are busy reading and interpreting law, Islam and China will wax your asses using methods that you don't even understand. China has a 5000 year history from which to pull inspiration, and the Muslims are just vicious bastards with many imaginative ways of causing death.
What that all means is, there won't BE a declaration of war.
Remember this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnJFhuOWgXg [youtube.com] Gil actually had some clues.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19 2018, @03:33PM (4 children)
Maybe, but the Constitution hasn't been altered. And that is where treason is defined. So if you want to execute anyone for treason then they have to have broken the Constitutional definition of treason and be convicted for it, which requires two witness to the overt act or a free confession in open court. What this guy did doesn't match the definition.
So are Christians. Check any torture museum. Part of being human.
Speaking of history, you should read up on the history of the Caliphate and the STEM advances that came out of it, like algebra.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday January 19 2018, @04:13PM (3 children)
You've been drinking the Kool-Aid, I see. ARABS are credited with the invention of algebra. MUSLIMS, not so much. (what, you thought "Arab" and "Muslim were synonyms?) The roots of algebra go back much further than Islam does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebra#History [wikipedia.org]
If you're going to make false claims of Islam creating STEM field things, then all of us Americans can feel justified in claiming to be first at every damned thing. Hell, we invented SEX!! All the rest of you are descended from asexual protoplasm, or something.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebra#History [wikipedia.org]
Now, if you want something that Islam can actually be credited with - they DID, jointly with the rest of Arabia, preserve most of the world's knowledge while the pigs in Europe were wallowing in filth. Of course, that presumes that the "west" is the world. Asia had their own thing going on at the time, and China didn't suffer a dark ages, either.
Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī was indeed Muslim, but he built upon the works of other people. He could have stated that he stood upon the shoulders of giants, if he were humble enough.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19 2018, @04:33PM (2 children)
try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Ingenious_Devices [wikipedia.org] That definitely came out of the Caliphate.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday January 19 2018, @04:38PM (1 child)
Try this then - http://gatesofvienna.net/2013/08/how-muslims-did-not-invent-algebra/#content [gatesofvienna.net] And, scroll on down to the comments - Dave nailed it, on August 7, 2013 at 5:45, the second comment after the article.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19 2018, @04:51PM
The Book of Ingenious Devices has nothing to do with Algebra. I freely admit that I was wrong and that mathematicians in the Caliphate did not originate algebra and were not the only ones working developing it.