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Spy Transaction Caught on Tape

February 25, 2010 8:24 AM

Watch as a Department of Defense employee is caught on tape selling military secrets to a Chinese spy. 60 Minutes' Scott Pelley reports, Sunday, Feb. 28, 7 p.m. ET/PT.

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by NOVAbex March 26, 2010 10:07 AM EDT
and we are still having relations with the chinese because......????
i mean HELLO they have already tried to kill us with putting lead into EVERYTHING we purchase from them!!!!!
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by coco5344 March 1, 2010 8:29 AM EST
Please do think about what exactly the secret PRC is looking for? US is selling minitery forces to both side, PRC and Taiwan. It is justice? I don't think so.
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by vfanfera February 28, 2010 8:16 PM EST
Did I hear correctly? The Rosenbergs were sentenced to death for treason, and this fat, good old boy received 5 years for selling out his country. Where,exactly,is the deterence for others? No wonder the Chinese are leaving us in the dust.

If , some day, these secrects are used against our men and women in the military, will this fellow feel remorse?
God help us all.
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by pbarp February 28, 2010 7:32 PM EST
mThe Chinese telecom giant Huawei has been aggressively trying to compete for business from Verizon, AT&T 4G telecom business.

See articles like:
http://www.longtermevolutionist.com/2009/11/27/huawei-strive-for-lte-orders-from-verizon-att-vodafone-and-lte-trials-for-singtel-and-telecom-italia/

Just imagine how easy the United States is making it easy for them to steal - what kind of information will they have access to once they get into the US telecommunications network! They have not won any contracts, but the fact that they were even considered and is still vying for them is a shame!
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by Michael_usa February 28, 2010 7:21 PM EST
Anyone who provides top secret information to foreign countries should be shot ... put in prison ... then shot again ... 5 years for this scum bag is ridiculous. We have some boys in the south that will give him what he deserves.
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by KIWI8 February 27, 2010 2:49 PM EST
Why has the PRC been spying on US technologies and everything? the only possible answer is to dominate the world. Now let's look at the PRC history, here are the facts:
1.the PRC do not have any real friends, the Chinese are self-centered. The PRC attitudes towards other small nations has created more enemies than friends.
2.all of the countries that have borders with the Chinese Do not like the Chinese from India to Russia, Burma.... The PRC pattern of intimidation have shown that they always bully and intimidate small countries for their own gain.
3.Everybody loves industrial revolution, but not the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the Chinese cultural revolution is all about digging up the deaths and declaring them safely deaths.
4.When it comes to innovation for technologies, initiative for peace the PRC has none of them but she has enormous capacity for imitation. There is only one country that has the balls to export pirated US software to the US that is the PRC.
5.There are weaknesses with the US and other wealthy nations that are the culture of spending tomorrow money today, and importing too much cheaply made PRC goods and the Chinese has been keeping their currency pegged to the US dollars for their own gain but not win-win solution. The PRC is very cunning, but not smart or intelligent.

Now, when the purpose is right and just, we always win. The just and right purpose is the World peace and Harmony. It's written clearly in the US constitution, so all we need to do is to implement it.


Technologies have changed the world and it only flourishes and continues to flourish in countries that has democracy, freedom... and the US is one of them. Let's look at the US, we have great presidents FDR, Thomas Jefferson.....21st century we have Baract Obama. Let's look at the PRC, we could not find any great leaders.
99% students around the world want to go to Princeton University, Stanford University, Yale University, Harvard University but not Chinese Universities unless they want to produce fake goods
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by blondenblueeyed February 27, 2010 11:50 AM EST
So what's the difference when this scumbag sells secrets and Bill Clinton "GAVE" our technology to the Chinese? NOT A THING! They both should be tried for treason, along with Hanoi Jane, John Kerry, SAean Penn and anyone else in this country who gives aide and comfort and secrets to the enemy.
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by Arsenaljamaica14 February 27, 2010 6:45 AM EST
Wow...Let's see how they will blame the politicians for this criminal!!!!!!!!!
The worst thing in the world is a theft...
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by johnmpsain February 26, 2010 5:35 PM EST
If he were Chinese and selling secrets,....life in prison with hard labor.
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by am50 February 26, 2010 4:27 PM EST
5 years is not enough jail time for this greedy man. He obviously does not appreciate the country he lives in and what it took our forefathers to get us our freedom. This is disgraceful! If 5 years (in a plush U.S. prison) is all one gets for stealing from his country and employer, then there is no deterrent prohibiting future criminals for putting our country at risk! Imagine what message this sentence is sending to other Americans committing espionage with companies in hostile countries.

He is Anti American!
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