Posted on 06/22/2017 6:11:42 PM PDT by markomalley
A former State Department employee was arrested Thursday and charged with espionage for allegedly transmitting Top Secret and Secret documents to a Chinese government agent, according to an affidavit filed with the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, VA.
Kevin Mallory, 60, of Leesburg is a self-employed consultant who speaks fluent Chinese. Court filings show that Mallory was an Army veteran who worked as a special agent for U.S. State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service from 1987 to 1990. Since then, Mallory has worked for various government agencies and defense contractors, maintaining a Top Secret security clearance. The Washington Post reports that Mallory was also an employee of the CIA.
Mallory faces life in prison under the federal Espionage Act, and could qualify for the death penalty if certain conditions are met.
According to court filings, Mallory traveled to Shanghai in April and was stopped by Customs agents at O’Hare Airport in Chicago after failing to report $16,500 in cash in his carry-on bags. A month later, FBI agents interviewed Mallory – who told them that he met with two people from a Chinese think tank that he now suspects were Chinese intelligence agents.
The suspected operatives gave Mallory a “special communications device” to securely transmit documents, which he claimed was only used to transmit two unclassified “white papers” on U.S. policy matters.
However, when FBI forensics searched the device, they found several other documents which Mallory believed to have been deleted, according to the affidavit. One message from Mallory to the suspected Chinese agent read “your object is to gain information, and my object is to be paid.” The Chinese agent’s response was reportedly “my current object is to make sure your security and try to reimburse you.”
Upon further analysis of the device, investigators found four classified documents – three of which were designated as Top Secret. According to the affidavit, Mallory was asked why some of the information at the top and bottom of certain pages was redacted – to which the alleged U.S. spy responded that it was to conceal the “Top Secret” designation so that “Unless read in detail, it appeared like a simple note,” along with an assurance that the information was valuable.
Mallory appeared in court on Thursday wearing a gray tank top and black athletic shorts, and requested a court-appointed attorney. He was ordered held pending a Friday afternoon detention hearing.
Leni
“Shoot him at dawn”
Why wait?
“And why haven’t we executed anyone since then?”
If we executed every treasonous jack ass that deserved it there wouldn’t be any democrats left.
And a thinning of the pubbies as well.
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Don’t shoot him-someone else has to clean up the mess.
No problem. Do it mafia style. Lay out a nice 4 mil plastic drop cloth. Drop him on that. Roll him up. Bing, bang, boom. No mess, no fuss.
No. “If he were in China”....they’d wait for an organ match, shoot him and extract the organs on the firing line.
I’m good with that, after he talks.
Well, that’s the truth!
And a thinning of the pubbies as well.
If they literally are (by the dictionary defintion) treasonous, then that is a GOOD thing.
It would mean "drain the swamp" would merely be a band-aid on a severed artery.
He worked at State with Hillary. He left government work when she did. How is he still getting his hands on top secret documents? Hint: Hillary still has top secret clearance.
Hmm.
Wall.
Blindfold.
Firing Squad.
With M1 Garand Rifles.
More like a jury of Hillary voters.
Retiring with fat government pensions in one thing, but leaving gov't work, keeping your security clearance and selling secrets to the Chinese for the next 5 years is a whole different category.
Of course. This screw worm got way too greedy...So there ya go.
I do wonder that if one or two violators of the fed espionage act flipped, if there might be an Oklahoma land rush of flippers to flip while the flippin's good.
And, yet Hillary is still free.
I wonder if this dude is the tip of the ice berg Rosenberg?
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