Posted on 10/24/2015 1:14:37 PM PDT by conservativejoy
He not only minimizes his criminal conduct but genuinely fails to understand the significance of his actions, and that is especially troubling, said U.S. District Judge Vanessa Bryant. How does she know he doesnt understand the significance of his actions? Meanwhile, we can be sure that U.S. defense contractor Pratt & Whitney didnt think twice about hiring a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen, and never thought of questioning him about his loyalties. That would have been Islamophobic.
Mozaffar Khazaee
Man who sent details on U.S. jets to Iran sentenced to eight years, by Richard Weizel, Reuters, October 23, 2015 (thanks to Lookmann):
A dual U.S.-Iranian citizen apologized on Friday for exporting sensitive information about U.S. military jets to his native Iran, saying he was simply applying for a job, before a judge sentenced him to eight years and one month in prison.
Mozaffar Khazaee, who had worked as an engineer at U.S. defense contractor Pratt & Whitney, was arrested in January 2014 as he tried to leave the country with sensitive material about the engines for the U.S. Air Forces F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and F-22 Raptor aircraft in his luggage.
Khazaee had also exchanged e-mails containing information about the programs with Iranian contacts, according to court papers. He said the e-mails were part of a job application.
I never sold anything to anybody, Khazaee, 61, told the court, standing hunched over and reading from notes. Had I known that making a Powerpoint presentation to an Iranian university in my attempt to get a job was breaking the law, I never would have taken the documents at all.
U.S. District Judge Vanessa Bryant said she was unimpressed with his assertions about e-mails relating to his previous employer, a unit of diversified manufacturer United Technologies Corp.. The company had laid him off in 2013.
He not only minimizes his criminal conduct but genuinely fails to understand the significance of his actions, and that is especially troubling, Bryant said.
The sentence she imposed, which included three years supervised release, was less than the 10 years prosecutors had sought.
The U.S. Arms Export Control Act limits the export of information related to weapons systems.
Federal prosecutors contended that Khazaees description of that exchange was inaccurate, saying he had e-mailed information on the jets well before being laid off and that he had told a contact in Iran in an e-mail the information he sent was very controlled I am taking [a] big risk.
His 85-year-old mother, who spells her name Molok Khazaye, had asked in a letter to the court for leniency for her son.
I have no protector other than (my son) and am depend on him financially and emotionally strongly so, the defendants mother wrote. I kindly request you to grant him a pardon due to his mistake.
This company should be fined and Never awarded another defense contract. Completely inexcusable.
King 0bamugabe will PARDON HIM and he'll be released from prison before 0bama leaves office on 20 Jan 2017. That is, IF he ever leaves office.
No, what's troubling is a U.S. District Judge doesn't understand this enemy's real objective and motivation.
How about twenty years? How about life? How about a firing squad?
Do you know what Iran would have done with those engine plans? They would be on their way to Beijing and Moscow in a heartbeat.
See, we can’t trust them. I will never trust anyone who claims to be muslim or islamic. You just can’t do it.
Oh, I think he understands what he was doing just fine.
Before the Muslim takeover of our White House, this would have been deemed treason.
Americans will die because of this monster’s treason,
and the stupidity of the Court of Hasan for letting him live.
But like Hasan .... he is protected by the White Mosque
and the submissive, complicit, EXEMPT, and hated GOP.
Eight years? He’ll be out before the F-35 is operational.
Only fools with a death wish would trust a muzzie!
An oldie, but a goodie!
We should not let Muslims have access to any Technology or Classified Secrets.
He knew perfectly well what he was doing. Any competent prosecutor should have brought him up on Espionage Act charges. Innocently sending a powerpoint to a potential employer...what a laugher that is. Right up there with “The dog ate my homework.” Lock him up and send Mom to Iran for care.
In the meantime, he will be a major recruiter for radical Islam. Obie has even made our prisons more Muslim friendly by banning pork.
Gotta keep those H1B folks coming to steal our tech and screw us over.
When’s his visit to the White Hut scheduled?
The pork ban was pulled.
Glad to hear it. I guess the threat of prison riots sometimes work.
The US does not recognize dual citizenship. My son was just naturalized a few weeks ago and I witnessed the process. You take the oath in 2 parts. The first is to renounce any allegiance to a foreign power and the second to protect and defend the US when called upon.
"I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God."
I wonder, if the person that claims dual citizenship can be stripped of their US citizenship because they lied during the renunciation part of the oath.
He’s lying through his teeth ... taqyyia
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