Ex-Pentagon official jailed for spying for China

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Source: bbc

A former Pentagon official has been sentenced to three years in prison for passing classified information to a Chinese spy.

James Fondren, 62, provided "certain classified defence department documents and other information" to a friend, who turned out to be a Chinese spy.

The judge said the information passed on caused little or no harm to US national security.
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His lawyer argued that Fondren did not know that Tai Shen Kuo, a naturalised US citizen from Taiwan, was a spy.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8476057.stm

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1. No "spies" necessary in the future. China can now simply buy any election with its corporate money.

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2. Loose lips sink ships. Looks like he got off fairly easy; I don't think the Chinese government would

... have been so lenient if the roles were reversed. He might be an organ donor as we speak.

Seriously (as if the above weren't serious enough already) the whole China thing just creeps me out. Why a "former Pentagon official" would have trusted anyone with classified material is beyond me. But for the rest of us -- we are inclined to admire someone who has made an arduous life's journey to the US and become a naturalized citizen, choosing to become One Of Us. That's our tradition, after all. However, this is not the first US resident from China to turn out to have ulterior motives. So now in addition to watching out for poisoned toys and pet food, we have to (or our government has to) look harder at the people they send us too. :-(

Hekate