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- When American stopped executing people for treason, things really went down hill. Put them in jail and feed them for a long time. Let them go and they do it again. Shoot traitors and terrorists.
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- Who stole our anthrax sercrets? where is the [silicon] "enhanced" Antharx? It was in you mail!
PUBLISHED SEPT 4, 2001.
nytimes.com/2001/09/04/international/04GERM.html ?pagewanted=all
Earlier this year, administration officials said, the Pentagon drew up plans to engineer genetically a potentially more potent variant of the bacterium that causes anthrax, a deadly disease ideal for germ warfare."
"A published account of the experiment, which appeared in a scientific journal in late 1997, alarmed the Pentagon, which had just decided to require that American soldiers be vaccinated against anthrax. American officials tried to obtain a sample from Russia through a scientific exchange program to see whether the Russians had really created such a hybrid. The Americans also wanted to test whether the microbe could defeat the American vaccine, which is different from that used by Russia.
Despite repeated promises, the bacteria were never provided.
Eventually the C.I.A. drew up plans to replicate the strain, but intelligence officials said the agency hesitated because there was no specific report that an adversary was attempting to turn the superbug into a weapon.
This year, officials said, the project was taken over by the Pentagon's intelligence arm, the Defense Intelligence Agency. Pentagon lawyers reviewed the proposal and said it complied with the treaty. Officials said the research would be part of Project Jefferson, yet another government effort to track the dangers posed by germ weapons.
A spokesman for Defense Intelligence, Lt. Cmdr. James Brooks, declined comment. Asked about the precautions at Battelle, which is to create the enhanced anthrax, Commander Brooks said security was "entirely suitable for all work already conducted and planned for Project Jefferson." - Reply to this comment
- Espionage is punishable by execution. If our government would act swiftly with this I believe the Bergersens and Kuos of the world would lessen. Ask Ethel and Julius Rosenberg!
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- Whatever happened to objective 60 Minutes reporting? From the opening lines this story had an obvious anti China bias. China isn't stealing anything. We all saw the tape. It was a red blooded American citizen who sold those secrets. Odd how the word traitor wasn't even mentioned.
What's next? Accuse China of stealing U.S. jobs? Ha! Our companies and our government shipped the jobs there. Clearly, China did not steal them either.
If the CIA is going to ghostwrite the stories at least try a little harder to conceal the spin. For a good twenty minutes we thought we were watching Fox. - Reply to this comment
- Hey, CBS - I think you better not publish these stories anymore; you risk the ire of the American multinationals who are selling us out to China - and that is big money in advertising.
And "big money" doesn't even come close to describing what is on the horizon, once the political advertising starts rolling out. - Reply to this comment
- "Whoa, oh, are you sure that's okay?" Bergersen asked.
What an idiot. He should have incorporated, and then handed the secrets over. Then he could have claimed that the profit motive and his right to practice capitalism shielded him.
Or, if that failed, then that his corporation was just indulging its right to free speech. - Reply to this comment
- by rharrin1 March 1, 2010 9:36 AM EST
They should have gotten the same punishment that bush and cheney got for outing a cia agent and it's front company which is treason.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~....and exactly what was the "same punishment"???? raharrini1, why don't you crawl back under your rock before you say something really stupid!!!! - Reply to this comment
- Five years for the sale of classified information? No wonder government employees risk selling U.S. secrets -- the punishment is incredibly light, given the gravity of the offense. I've seen people get nearly that much jail time for shoplifting.
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- To newyorkerinasia
?????????????????? (One should not lie when there are present those who know the truth.)
You wouldn't know where Xianghai is if you were in the town square.
I do business in China, and at least once every two months or so, I travel to Xianghai, Shenzen, Beijing, Guangdou, and Xiamen.
Your imagination seems to be fuelled with ASPD, Sterno, and pure bigotry. Nothing near what you describe happened, and someone who doesn't even know the correct spelling of the town's name, certainly has never been there. - Reply to this comment
- I don't see what's the big deal about this. Heck we spy on them since 1949 so I wouldn't be surprised that someone spies on us. Recently there's a big stink over China being removed as a top priority for spies.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/20/china-removed-top-priority-spies/
Besides, the way how this guy was caught was very sloppy. The American who got caught is not the Robert Hanssen type. I figure that the Chinese 'agent' who got caught with the information could've e-mailed the information to someone in China instead of writing down the information on paper and hand deliver it instead. - Reply to this comment
