Ex-CIA officer suspected of compromising Chinese informants is arrested - Polidicks

[url]https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/us/politics/cia-china-mole-arrest-jerry-chun-shing-lee.html[/url] [quote]WASHINGTON — A former C.I.A. officer suspected of helping China identify the agency’s informants in that country has been arrested, the Justice Department said on Tuesday. Many of the informants were killed in a systematic dismantling of the C.I.A.’s spy network in China starting in 2010 that was one of the American government’s worst intelligence failures in recent years, several former intelligence officials have said. The arrest of the former agent, Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 53, capped an intense F.B.I. investigation that began around 2012 after the C.I.A. began losing its informants in China. Mr. 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 C.I.A.’s covert communications used to talk to foreign sources of information.[/quote] [quote]In 2012, Mr. Lee returned to the United States with his family. F.B.I. agents investigating him searched his luggage during a pair of hotel stays, and found two small books with handwritten notes that contained classified information. Prosecutors said that in the books, he had written down details about meetings between C.I.A. informants and undercover agents, as well as their real names and phone numbers.[/quote] They've been hunting the Chinese mole for years and it seems they finally got him. If guilty, this guy committed one of the most traitorous acts in American history by giving the identities of dozens of spies over to the Chinese government, who then killed them.

If this guy is responsible for the deaths of Americans and informants, he should be given the death penalty. I still cannot understand why we let so many people that are responsible of espionage and treason, get away with jail sentences.

Traitor.

[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;53058210]If this guy is responsible for the deaths of Americans and informants, he should be given the death penalty. I still cannot understand why we let so many people that are responsible of espionage and treason, get away with jail sentences.[/QUOTE] Looking back at recent espionage cases I have to agree the US has been far too lenient on them.

[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;53058210]If this guy is responsible for the deaths of Americans and informants, he should be given the death penalty. I still cannot understand why we let so many people that are responsible of espionage and treason, get away with jail sentences.[/QUOTE] When even was the last time the federal government gave someone the death penalty? Actually the only time I can think of the federal government giving the death penalty was to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

[QUOTE=TheBorealis;53058231]When even was the last time the federal government gave someone the death penalty? Actually the only time I can think of the federal government giving the death penalty was to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.[/QUOTE] Not even the leaders of the Confederacy received death for their actions, they were all pardoned.

[QUOTE=TheBorealis;53058231]When even was the last time the federal government gave someone the death penalty? Actually the only time I can think of the federal government giving the death penalty was to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.[/QUOTE] Three people have been executed by the US federal government since 2000 including the Oklahoma City bomber.

Amazing work from an amazing agency. I just wish mine and other cogressmen would quite it with the partisan deflections and attacks on the FBI.

[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;53058239]Not even the leaders of the Confederacy received death for their actions, they were all pardoned.[/QUOTE] Probably a political move, to be honest. Help ease the reintegration of the secessionist states and people by not killing their leaders.

[QUOTE=TheBorealis;53058231]When even was the last time the federal government gave someone the death penalty? Actually the only time I can think of the federal government giving the death penalty was to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.[/QUOTE] The last time someone got the death penalty via the fed would have probably been Timothy McVeigh, and the one which is coming up is probably going too be the Boston Bomber. Seriously, theirs a case from the 60's where some guy sold bomber and fighter pilot radio codes and such, and ended up getting hundreds of our pilots killed by SAM sites. That guy got off with a simple jail sentence when he should of been made a public example of via the gallows.

[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;53058562]Seriously, theirs a case from the 60's where some guy sold bomber and fighter pilot radio codes and such, and ended up getting hundreds of our pilots killed by SAM sites. That guy got off with a simple jail sentence when he should of been made a public example of via the gallows.[/QUOTE] Assuming you're talking about John Walker, he got off with a jail sentence because he entered a plea deal to testify against the rest of the Walker spy ring and save his son from worse punishment.

So many Chinese plants these days. They should really be more careful about how comes back from China you know?

[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;53058239]Not even the leaders of the Confederacy received death for their actions, they were all pardoned.[/QUOTE] It was either that or risk another rebellion. The Southern states were still a pretty volatile area up until the 1880's, and the failure of Reconstruction definitely didn't help the matter.