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| Gertz: Montaperto Receives 3 Months (from Spook 86) |
| 2006-09-27 |
| U.S. counterintelligence and security officials are upset that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Stephen Cambone, the undersecretary of defense for intelligence, were silent on the case of former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst Ronald Montaperto. Montaperto was sentenced to three months in prison last week for illegally keeping classified documents and passing sensitive intelligence to Chinese agents. Apparently, Mr. Rumsfeld, who has publicly criticized the disclosure of classified information to the press, is less concerned when classified data is passed to foreign intelligence services by a Defense Department employee. By contrast, 12 current and former government and military officials wrote to the judge in the case to defend Montaperto. Among the letter writers was Lonnie Henley, the U.S. intelligence community's second-most senior intelligence analyst on China. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman disagrees. Although Mr. Whitman would not say why no one from the Pentagon wrote to the judge, he said that "the severity of the sentence rests with the judge." "Protecting information vital to our national security is the responsibility of every employee of the U.S. government," he said. "It is a sacred trust that the American people expect and deserve to have upheld." |
| Posted by:Super Hose |
| #3 The short sentence raises the questions: 1) was the gentleman in question a double agent, deliberately planting false information? 2)was the gentleman in question a known agent, and duped into taking false information to his Chinese masters? No doubt those who've read more spy novels can think of other questions this raises. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-09-27 14:28 |
| #2 The artical said that he applied for a CIA job but failed the screening so badly that the CIA notified DIA that they better take a look at what he was doing... so they didn't. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2006-09-27 00:44 |
| #1 POLIPUNDIT.com has an article on how detrimentally POLITICIZED the US CIA had become over the years, to the point of where that agency's PC has actually become a de facto danger to America and the USG. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-09-27 00:37 |