An American hero worthy of help

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | January 4, 2004 | Dateline DC

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Two years ago, Robert Philip Hanssen, 59, a former very senior FBI official with 27 years of service, was sentenced to life in prison. Hanssen had been spying for the Russians and betrayed American intelligence sources and electronics secrets from as early as 1979.

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Hansson originaly outted that goofy-looking blond...Valery Plame.

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[Howlin]

No kidding? Tell!

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He gave the Russians the names of all of our agents. Scuttlebut consistant enough to be believable has it that Plame was one of the names (hundreds of names) he named....and she's been nothing but a paper pusher since. For years.

If that woman was put BACK into culvert for any reason, somebody made a serious mistake.

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You don't say !

One reason I LOVE FR... stuff you doon't get anywhere else.

Thanks for those little "crumbs"...

[piasa]

Supposedly... but some say it was

....”Several questions immediately arise. True, Zaporozhsky spied against Moscow, but when he did that, he was spying against a Soviet regime ultimately repudiated by the Russian people. It was ten years between the time the Russians shook off Communism and the time the Russian secret police got around to luring Zaporozhsky back to Russia. Why should they be mad at a citizen who turned against the regime finally rejected by everybody, including the Soviet president?

It is conjectured by James Risen, writing in the New York Times, that what the defector had done was cue the FBI onto the trail of Robert P. Hanssen, the FBI traitor who worked for Soviet money for 20 years, betraying Russians who were giving us important information, resulting in mayhem and death. We gave Hanssen a life sentence, and there are those who at his trial were wistful for the gallows when that sentence was passed....”