Posted on 05/31/2005 2:24:51 PM PDT by kcvl
Do you mean Hanssen??? I think he was the one arrested in 2001.
YES! Thank you, Hansen. How old is he? I can't recall. Likely too young to know anything first hand.
He's in his late 50s I think. Had been with the FBI like 25 years when "caught" so he wouldn't have been around until about '76 and then he would have been a rookie, I am guessing.
Yeah, and that MF weasel was gone by then.
His retaliatory act appears to have been paid for in the form of revenge.
Well, they were probably right about that. There isn't much that shames the Clintons or their ever loving press, sociopath followers, which would include the President having oral sex with an intern in the oval office.
Imagine that being a REPUBLICAN who did the exact same thing?! OMG!
FBI Spy Charged With Counter-Espionage
AM Archive - Wednesday, 21 February , 2001 00:00:00
Reporter: Michael Carey
COMPERE: In Washington an embarrassed FBI has announced that one of its most senior counter-intelligence officers has been charge with spying for the Russians since the 1980s. Although the agency says it doesn't know how much damage the alleged spy Robert Hanson did, it concedes the impact was grave.
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MICHAEL CAREY: On Monday morning it came to an end with agents picking up Hanssen after he'd apparently hidden a package of classified material under a footbridge in Virginia parkland which his Russian handlers were expected to retrieve it.
The FBI says 56-year-old Hanssen looked surprised.
For his part today Director Freeh looked grim faced as he recounted the agent's career and alleged treason.
LOUIS FREEH: The information he's alleged to have provided compromised numerous sources, technical operations and FBI counter-intelligence techniques, sources and methods.
In August 1990, Hanssen's brother-in-law, FBI Special Agent Mark Wauck, heard that Hanssen's wife Bonnie had found $5,000 in unexplained cash in Hanssen's dresser drawer. Wauck reported this and other incidents he found suspicious to a supervisor in the FBI's Chicago Field Office. Although Wauck and the supervisor now have significantly different recollections of their conversation, we believe that Wauck provided the supervisor with enough information to warrant some follow up.
Like Kylie said, Hansen had been with the FBI for about 25 years... so I guess he missed knowing MF, right?
Uh....what??
Did Felt have anything to do with the FBI investigations concerning John Kerry and his secret meetings in KC talking about assassinations of Senators? No one was ever prosecuted for the meeting of this group yet someone high up in the FBI had to have known of the contents of the meeting.
Who knows at this point?!
I'm so sick of the lying OLD MEDIA. May they have the *hit fly back in the faces x 10. They deserve everything they get over this. Their credibility is around zero now.
Too many loose ends right now. That feeble MF's famliy are coming across way too smug.
Yes, it is truly amazing! Even if Hollywood put together a story like this (rip Nixon for next to nothing and ignore clinton's 'gate per minute') and made a movie out of it, NO ONE would believe it because it would just be too incredible. It would be much easier to believe every Star Wars movie was true and was filmed LIVE, on location, as it actually happened.
This is probably all orchestrated for a new book by copyboy Woodward and his typist, Bernstein.
fOXnFRIENDS AM bump...
Judge Napolitano says this scum is a disgrace to the FBI.
Said also the stature of limitations is up, too bad...would have been 5 years for each leak of classified info...
Yep, something's up...they need the moola (not mullah), as in dinero, not DeNiro....sheesh, some things are too hard these days...no, I didn't meen Hard, like that either...
G
statute...hey, it's early!!
I just ruined my keyboard with a coffee spew. Thanks...pal (lol)
I pretty much recall what happened back then, and now that the mystery is solved, Felt's motives for leaking can, in one major sense, be explained like this:
JE Hoover died in 1972. Nixon named a submarine captain named L. Patrick Gray as the second FBI Director. Prior to his dying, Hoover denied Nixon's request that FBI agents conduct clandestine (illegal) operations against Daniel Ellsberg. Hoover also strongly advised Nixon not to form a group to carry that out. Nixon did anyway, establishing "the Plumbers".
The Plumbers broke in to the DC Dem campaign headquarters, (Watergate) looking for evidence that the Dems had been using illegal tactics to campaign against Nixon. (Ponder that absurdity for a moment.)
Now the FBI was legitimately and jurisdictionally tasked to investigate the criminal and civil rights violations of the Watergate break-in, and thousands of loose ends began to be tied up into a logical and substantial mountain of evidence.
However, L. Patrick Gray was just too loyal to Nixon. As Director of the FBI, he was privy, and probably demanded, that all investigative reports to be referred for prosecution be given to him before offical dissemination.
In the usual case, the FBI report(s) would have been sent to the Office of the Attorney General of the United States. Which was impossible, since the AG was none other than John Mitchell, himself involved in the Watergate cover-up.
As far as I know, Gray, instead of personally hand-carrying the reports to the AG (or Nixon), decided to take them home, where he hid them on a closet shelf.
When this was discovered, Gray lost his job in disgrace.
But he really was in a very peculiar position: Nixon was a close friend; Nixon was a subject of the investigation; the AG's Office was completely compromised, and the AG himself involved.
What was he supposed to do? He was damned either way.
When all this was happening, I had a great dislike for Gray, for corrupting the FBI, and I was happy to see him get canned. Looking back today, I now have a sense of his dilemma, and, I still think he did the wrong thing. The advice he got from his FBI cadre, including Felt, was to just turn the reports over to the AG, per protocol, keep the FBI out of the politics of the mess, and let the Nixon folks see just exactly what they were up against and decide their next course of action. Lying against the report's results by the Nixon folks would have indicated dissemination to the judiciary or some other branch of gov't would be appropriate.
Since Gray didn't take that advice, and there was no way to get the information to the right place, Felt took it upon himself to leak it to the press, and let the press drive Nixon from office by exposing to the people what a bunch of half-A'd crooks Nixon and his cronies were.
And Felt broke the law by leaking the information, maybe a felony or maybe a misdemeanor, depending on the classification of the report.
Felt may have had some personal reasons also, in that he had not been selected to replace Hoover. The FBI itself never figured the next Director would come from "outside".
But I think Felt had the higher purpose, and has there ever been a deed so important, successful, and so right, for our nation?
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