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Dan Bongino : State Department employee Michael Charles Schena was sentenced to 48 months in prison for attempting to sell out his country
X ^ | 09/05/2025 | Dan Bongino

Posted on 09/05/2025 2:05:01 PM PDT by DFG

Another update from your FBI on our efforts to defend the homeland and protect the American people.

Today, State Department employee Michael Charles Schena was sentenced to 48 months in prison for attempting to sell out his country.

He was paid to use a covert communication device to take pictures of CLASSIFIED documents containing national defense information and then send them to individuals he believed worked for the Chinese government. Schena’s actions directly undermined U.S. national security and put Americans at risk.

No amount of money is worth betraying your country, and the FBI will do EVERYTHING in our power to bring traitors like Schena to justice.

I’d like to thank @FBIWFO, @FBIRichmond, DOJ’s Office of Enforcement Operations, and DOS’ Diplomatic Security Service’s Office of Counterintelligence for their great work safeguarding our country’s most sensitive information.

To all the current and past U.S. government clearance holders out there, the threat is REAL. Please remain vigilant against China’s aggressive attempts to target you and report all suspicious contacts to the FBI.

God bless America, and all those who defend Her.


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: bongino; china; espionage; michaelcharlesschena; michaelschena; spying
Only 48 months!
1 posted on 09/05/2025 2:05:01 PM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

1 scumbag spy down and how many more to go? Just think how much bigger this could be if the FIBbies hadn’t been politicized as an arm of the DNC for the last decade. The CCP is merely one tentacle of the cabal wanting the demise of the USA.


2 posted on 09/05/2025 2:22:48 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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To: DFG

EXACTLY what I was going to say.

Should be death. At least life w/o parole.


3 posted on 09/05/2025 2:38:26 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: DFG

Those will be a very long 48 months. The other inmates won’t be friendly.


4 posted on 09/05/2025 2:39:41 PM PDT by ryderann
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To: DFG

What happened to the firing squad?


5 posted on 09/05/2025 2:45:21 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: DFG

With only 48 months, justice has not been served.


6 posted on 09/05/2025 2:56:08 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: DFG
No amount of money is worth betraying your country

It's always surprising ... and disgusting ... how cheaply these bastards sell out.

7 posted on 09/05/2025 3:00:13 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: DFG

Supplying secret information to the largest enemy of the US, and only 48 months in prison? This could kill more Americans then 9/11 did or Pearl Harbor.

Traitors should be dealt with severely.


8 posted on 09/05/2025 3:01:35 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: DFG

Now how about BHussein Osama, Brennan, et al. ...


9 posted on 09/05/2025 3:16:53 PM PDT by A strike (f the UK/MI6 effort to sucker the US into perpetuating their delusion of British world importance)
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To: DFG

The penalty for treason used to be death.


10 posted on 09/05/2025 4:16:00 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: DFG

S/B 148 months


11 posted on 09/05/2025 6:30:14 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: DFG

Hey, only 48 months for treason? What happened to the rope and the drop?


12 posted on 09/05/2025 6:33:34 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's ok---- I wasn't married to it.)
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To: DFG

“ Only 48 months!”

That’s 1,440 days of getting bent over in the shower.

Look at it that way and smile.

L


13 posted on 09/05/2025 6:34:08 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: DFG

Unless this chump is turning evidence against other participants, there is no reason for him to get four years in federal prison.


14 posted on 09/05/2025 9:21:29 PM PDT by princeofdarkness
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