Maybe even less. Selling out our nation’s security to a Communist pit ultimately bent on destroying the Free World is a crime which should get you hanged. Apparently not these days, even when spying for China, one of the most depraved, genocidal nations on Earth.
Former Pentagon official pleads guilty in China spy case
A former Pentagon official pleaded guilty in court Monday to an espionage charge over the disclosure of secret data to an alleged Chinese agent in the US. Gregg Bergersen said he was unaware that the Taiwan-born businessman was passing the information to China. Mr. Bergersen, a weapons systems policy analyst who resigned his job last week, could face up to 10 years in prison.
The leaked data concerned US weapons programs for Taiwan, which China has threatened to regain by force, if necessary. Taiwan is a potential flash point for US-China rivalry in East Asia, and US military support for Taiwan is an irritant to Beijing. In turn, Taiwan has flagged China’s steady buildup of missiles capable of hitting Taiwan. US military officials have warned that China and Russia have stepped up military spying activities in recent years, focusing on advanced weapon technology…
In two separate developments this week, a judge in California agreed to postpone until next May the trial of a Chinese-American engineer charged with stealing military and aerospace trade secrets on behalf of China, the Associated Press reports, and a federal court sentenced a Chinese-born engineer working on a Navy warship to 24 years in jail for trying to pass “sensitive data” to China, Bloomberg reports.
Despite all this, including the poisoned and tainted food and medicine with which China has been flooding our nation, as well as dangerous and defective toys for children and weakened steel for our buildings, President Bush still plans on traveling to China to enjoy the Olympic games while boosting the image of that pit as a civilized nation.
No wonder they have contempt for us as they try to issue Death by a Thousand Cuts.
Playing Devil’s Advocate here, but as a prosecutor, sometimes if I have a crap case, I make a lenient plea offer. Better that than go to trial, lose, and get nothing.
“…could face up to 10 years in prison.”
That’s UP TO 10 years, probably will be less, and then half that with good behavior…
In this country, crime does pay.
I’m still seething over the case of Lynne Stewart, who carried orders to kill people to the outside world from the imprisoned blind Egyptian cleric of the first World Trade Center bombing. She should be jailed forever, but her fan club is working tirelessly and with much success to keep her free. It’s disgusting.
I’m sorry, but if we didn’t put a bullet in John Walker Lindh’s head for treason, then we’re past the point of putting a bullet in anyone’s head for treason.