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Government
GSA exec with top-secret clearance didn't disclose China trip
2014-06-04
Top General Services Administration officials learned of a troubling discovery by the agency's watchdog office back in December: a GSA executive responsible for intelligence agency customers had gone to China a year earlier without telling anyone. The official not only held a top-secret compartmented information clearance that required him to report the trip, he failed to disclose decades-old felony arrests or report multiple contacts with foreign nationals, according to a Dec. 6, 2013, memo from the GSA Office of Inspector General to the agency's top acquisition and human resources officials.

There was more: The GSA employee misused a government travel card, made false statements on ethics and national security forms and failed to disclose an airplane he owned as an asset in a 2008 bankruptcy case, among other serious misconduct findings.

The Times confirmed he is Norman Wear, a GSA employee working in the agency's Office of Customer Accounts and Research
The investigation ended quietly without criminal charges late last year when the Justice Department declined to prosecute, according to the memo, which The Washington Times obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
Posted by:Steve White

#8  AG Holder should be hung by his ankles and beaten like a piÅ„ata for continued gross dereliction of duty.
Posted by: OldSpook   2014-06-04 11:20  

#7  Modified PR:

Have you now or have you ever used or transported narcotic substances in a Dip Pouch.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-06-04 09:39  

#6  You forgot serving as a state senator from the great state of Illinois.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy   2014-06-04 09:33  

#5  Yo Billy, could have been worse.

--Money problems ? Check
--Unreported travel to critical CI country ? Check
--Unreported foreign contacts from a critical CI country? Check
--Knowing failing to disclose prior felony arrests? Check
--Admitted use and sale of cocaine and MJ
--Unauthorized travel to Pakistan while a student
--Holding duel Indonesian citizenship
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-06-04 09:13  

#4  WTF - over? How on God's green earth is this guy not in chains? He's walking CI case study:
--Money problems ? Check
--Unreported travel to critical CI country ? Check
--Unreported foreign contacts from a critical CI country? Check
--Knowing failing to disclose prior felony arrests? Check

At least with Ames and Hanson we could blame our own CI folks for not catching them. This guy lands in our lap and we fumble. Thanks Erica "Red" Holder.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy   2014-06-04 09:02  

#3  Just a garden variety crook who found a comfortable home in a government that is far too big--or something more?
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-06-04 08:06  

#2  Dangers of employing psychopaths.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2014-06-04 06:50  

#1  While Mr. Wear initially told investigators he'd disclosed all of his assets in his 2008 bankruptcy, he subsequently said he wasn't sure if he told his attorney about an airplane he'd owned since 2002, according to the case memo.

Large dollar gifts from Won Hung Lo.... no need to report those, right ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-06-04 01:49  

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