Billions Lost By Feds

Jesse's ? or ours ?
Back a bunch of years (mabe it was even Operation Breadbasket, Jesse's predecessor to PUSH), the feds gave him an 800k grant, and all the feds wanted was an accounting. The feds never got it, and finally knocked on Jesse's door to do an audit. Jesss's bookkeepers gave the feds one handwritten reciept for 800k spent. i'm guessing that 800k was listed as "Unreconciled transactions affecting the change in net position"....

Are you sick of the waste, fraud, and corruption? It doesn't matter which half of the Incumbent party is in power. Government keeps getting bigger, more intrusive, more wasteful, and more corrupt.

You have two choices. You can continue rewarding this kind of behavior by sending the people responsible back to Washington every election and pretend that one day they'll clean up the mess like they've been promising to for 50 years. Or, you can vote for Libertarians who will repeal taxes, close departments, and reduce government so this kind of thing doesn't continue for the rest of your life.

Have you read Shakedown yet..???? 800 k is a drop in the bucket...

Spy's Family Getting $50,000 a Year

Thursday February 22, 2001
By Vernon Loeb and Brooke A. Masters, The Washington Post

WASHINGTON - - - The damage from Robert P. Hanssen's alleged KGB spy career could be particularly severe because he possessed both access to intelligence information across the government and computer skills that put him among the most technologically sophisticated officials at the FBI, three of his former colleagues said yesterday.

Two years after he allegedly began spying in 1985, Hanssen served as deputy director of the FBI Intelligence Division's Soviet section, giving him full access to information about counterspy activities against the Soviet Union.

David Major, who was Hanssen's boss and worked with him for 20 years, described Hanssen's access as: "Everything -- all sources, all methods, all techniques, all targets. There's only a few people in counterintelligence that have to know everything. And he was one of them."

Hansen, 56, has been charged with betraying numerous U.S. intelligence operations and at least three of the FBI's Russian agents over the past 15 years in return for more than $1.4 million in cash, diamonds and deposits in a Russian bank. He was arrested Sunday at a Fairfax County, Va., park, not far from his home, after he was caught attempting to deliver a garbage bag full of classified documents to Russian intelligence agents in exchange for $50,000 in cash left at another park in Arlington.

To support the espionage charges against Hanssen, the government filed a 109-page affidavit Tuesday in US District Court that appears to be based largely on a KGB dossier. It cites correspondence between Hanssen and his handlers from 1985 to 1991 and alleges that two of the three Russian agents betrayed by Hanssen were EXECUTED.

Under a law passed after the 1994 arrest of CIA spy Aldrich Ames, prosecutors can seek the death penalty for a person who delivers classified information to a foreign power that betrays nuclear secrets or results in the death of US agents.

With the threat of seeking a death penalty, they hope to persuade Hanssen to negotiate a plea bargain and to cooperate with an investigation into the damage from his alleged spying.

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This last paragraph is where the problems starts (as far as I'm concerned ). As it turns out Robert Hansens family will receive his pension. It doesn't really matter how much the pension is ($50,000 a yr.), just the fact that it will be paid out boggles my mind.How much his wife did or didn't know about her husbands actions, and/or what type of person she is, is irrelevant, as far as I'm concerned!! The very idea of paying out a "Pension" to this guy ( regardless of who gets it ) just blows me away!! - - - - Whoever thought of "Lets offer him his pension if he'll talk" should be fired, along with everyone else who went along with it.- -

Robert Hansen is a good example of when extreme measures are justified!! They could have gotten ANY information they wanted out of this guy, and made him glad to give it!! They could have (should have) made him thank them for letting him tell everything he knew !! - - - BUT NO !!! They offer him his pension!!! Unbelievable !!

Do some research and see what damage he caused our country, not to mention the agents he put in danger and the two agents that are dead!! - - - And we're going to pay out, every year, for as long as he lives, $50,000. - - - So what it boils down to is; #1 ) He gets busted for being a traitor, evidenced by his selling information to the Russians. #2 ) We get him in jail, then he sells information to US !! That's a good one, now I've heard of everything.