FUBO. Hang this asshole soon.


An ex-CIA agent has been arrested under suspicions that he helped the Chinese government find CIA informants operating in China, the New York Times' Adam Goldman reports, citing the Justice Department. Many of the identified informants were killed in "a systematic dismantling" of the CIA's network in China that began in 2010.

Jerry Chun Shing Lee — the former agent who left the CIA in 2007 and was living in Hong Kong — was arrested after a years-long FBI investigation, launched in 2012 after CIA informants started disappearing in China. "Lee was at the center of a mole hunt in which some intelligence officials believed that he had betrayed the United States but others thought that the Chinese government had hacked the CIA's covert communications used to talk to foreign sources of information," per the Times.

How it happened: Lee was arrested at JFK airport. During recent visits to the U.S., the FBI conducted "searches of Lee’s room and luggage, and found that Lee was in unauthorized possession of materials relating to the national defense," per a DOJ release announcing the arrest. Specifically, agents found two small books containing handwritten notes that contained classified information, including but not limited to, true names and phone numbers of assets and covert CIA employees, operational notes from asset meetings, operational meeting locations and locations of covert facilities."

He appeared in federal court today in New York, and has been charged with unlawful retention of national defense information

https://www.axios.com/ex-cia-a...0e-964ec4b0abfd.html


Former CIA Officer Arrested for Retaining Classified Information

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer was arrested last night on charges of unlawful retention of national defense information.

Jerry Chun Shing Lee, aka “Zhen Cheng Li”, 53, was arrested after arriving at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York. Lee, who is a naturalized United States citizen, currently resides in Hong Kong, China. According to court documents, Lee began working for the CIA as a case officer in 1994, maintained a Top Secret clearance, and signed numerous non-disclosure agreements during his tenure at CIA.

According to court documents, in August 2012, Lee and his family left Hong Kong to return to the United States to live in northern Virginia. While traveling back to the United States, Lee and his family had hotel stays in Hawaii and Virginia. During each of the hotel stays, FBI agents conducted court-authorized searches of Lee’s room and luggage, and found that Lee was in unauthorized possession of materials relating to the national defense. Specifically, agents found two small books containing handwritten notes that contained classified information, including but not limited to, true names and phone numbers of assets and covert CIA employees, operational notes from asset meetings, operational meeting locations and locations of covert facilities.

Lee made his initial appearance this afternoon in the Eastern District of New York. He is charged with unlawful retention of national defense information and faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, if convicted. Actual sentences for federal crimes are typically less than the maximum penalties. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after taking into account the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

Dana J. Boente, Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, and Andrew W. Vale, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, made the announcement. Assistant U.S. Attorney Neil Hammerstrom and Deputy Chief Elizabeth Cannon of the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section are prosecuting the case.

A copy of this press release is located on the website of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia. Related court documents and information is located on the website of the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia or on PACER by searching for Case No. 1:18-mj-18.

A criminal complaint contains allegations that a defendant has committed a crime. Every defendant is presumed to be innocent until and unless proven guilty in court.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-e...assified-information

Just shoot him. 10 years is way too short for treason.

Try him. Hang him. Move to the next traitor...

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Originally posted by MikeNH:
10 years is way too short for treason.

I imagine he’s charged with unlawful retention rather than actual espionage because it would be much harder to prove the latter, but possibly because prosecuting espionage would require revealing more sensitive information.

10 years in Leavenworth with some hard pipe hitting “fellow felons” with a patriotic bent might not add up to 10 years of life.

I vote for getting to work with some pliers and a blow torch. Of course, after conviction. Let justice be served, Dahmer-style.

Give him a fair trial and then hang him.

I would like to know how he got the information. Was he that high up he was privy to the info? Did he hack someone’s computer or lifted a file?

I don’t really want to know but I hope someone finds out and plug the way he got the information.

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:
I would like to know how he got the information. Was he that high up he was privy to the info? Did he hack someone’s computer or lifted a file?

I don’t really want to know but I hope someone finds out and plug the way he got the information.

Exactly my thought. As a former agent, how did he get access to such sensitive current info? If he stole it before he left the CIA, why wouldn't he just stay in HK?

I agree with the concept of a fair trial and a hanging. Nuf said.

Seems like there was a day when this would have been handled quietly. He would have just, disappeared. Or it would have been resolved using a post, a blindfold, 7 volunteers and a few dollars in ammo.

EIther way seems like a fair and speedy way to handle things like this.

traitor

As others have pointed out, he had to get the info from somewhere. Whether there are more charges to be filed or another defendant to get into the dock, there'll be more to this than ten years for one guy for one incident. Meanwhile, Potential Snitch #1 is locked up and accessible to the Feds at any time.

Since he was in HK and not on 'Merican soil why didn't CIA deal with it there?

Two questions Mr Lee:
Blindfold?
Cigarette?

"Ready, aim, Fire."

Problem solved, problem staying solved.


It kinda seems that there's more and more of these cases of treason happening. There needs to be an example set, and fast, so the next person thinks twice about selling out this country!

McCarthy writes in National Review:

[… ] Trump Justice Department’s prosecution theory in Lee’s case repudiates in every salient particular the Obama Justice Department’s analysis of the Clinton investigation. […] It was based on such an absence of traitorous intent that the Obama Justice Department and the FBI — and, more important, President Obama himself — rationalized dropping the Clinton investigation rather than filing an indictment. […]
Finally, it makes no difference that Lee is charged with felony retention of classified information under the Espionage Act’s section 793(e) while Mrs. Clinton was said to be investigated for grossly negligent mishandling of classified information under the Act’s section 793(f). […]

Mrs. Clinton should have been investigated (and charged) under section 793(e) since she, like Lee, willfully and unlawfully retained classified information in unauthorized places (and transmitted it to unauthorized people). The gross-negligence felony (793(f)) should have been the prosecutors’ fallback position.


Yet, by drawing us into this morass, the Obama administration ingeniously set the framework for public discussion of Clinton’s case: just carelessness, not real crime. In reality, Clinton was like Lee: She should have been prosecuted for willful misconduct. […] But if the government fails to convict Lee, it won’t be due to the intent element, on which the evidence is strong. In that sense, the Espionage Act is back to being enforced as it is written. If the email investigation were reopened under those terms, it would be bad news for Mrs. Clinton and her underlings.

http://www.nationalreview.com/...ase-compares-clinton

When I read these stories I think of Jason Bourne movies where "rogue agents" are set up and hung out to dry by the Agency.

I'm also not smart enough to know what's bullshit and what isn't.