Posted on 10/05/2005 3:33:32 PM PDT by el_chupacabra
developing . . .
A Marine is a Marine regardless of where they were born.
And a traitor is a traitor regardless of where they were born.
Techies come from National Security Admin, I think. And of course, subject to the usual red-tape way of structuring their responsibilities.
As a retired Marine I know well that there are enemies within our ranks. He will be dealt with in a Marine like Manner, I trust you.
Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer.
Whoever does not have the stomach for this fight, let him depart. Give him his money to speed his departure since we wish not to die in this man’s company. Whoever lives past today and comes home safely will rouse himself every year on this day, show his neighbor his scars, and tell him embellished stories of all their great feats of battle. These stories he will teach his son and from this day until the end of the world we shall be remembered. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for whoever has shed his blood with me shall be my brother. And those men afraid to go will think themselves lesser men as they hear of how we fought and died together.
On live tv.
Wonder who assigned him to the WH? Wonder who vetted him? Wonder if this was Miller's source? Wondering alot of things right now.
BTW, he never has been a Marine. I will never refer to him as one. I will not insult our Marines by putting this posing POS in the same sentence with the word "Marine".
Okay, maybe if I said "Let the Marines make up the firing squad."
Your guess is incorrect.
that goes for flag officers in the Armed Forces, CIA and State Department officials as well.
There should have been a purge of these parasites during the first 4 years. I'd rather take an honest novice than a Democratic/socialist/parasite operative in my government. The libs have solid litmus tests that they use to appoint government jobs ..... we need to play hardball the same way.
As soon as you see some of the news clips of Marine Officers criticizing Bush then you know that the rot is pretty thick in other branches of the Armed Forces and the rest of the government jobs.
When treason prospers, none dare call it treason.
I met one of the marines that was in that whole Russian Embassy mess, Robert Stufflebeam. I met him when I was single and on vacation in the Bahamas, and he made a move on me.
After that, I read a book about the incident. I'm glad I didn't like the guy.
FBI arrests Lacson aide for espionage
Probers found 101 RP-related documents
First posted 00:47am (Mla time) Sept 14, 2005
By Armand N. Nocum, Margaux C. Ortiz, Volt Contreras
Inquirer News Service
Editor's Note: Published on page A1 of the Sept. 14, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
MICHAEL RAY AQUINO, a former high police official indicted for the murder of publicist Salvador "Bubby" Dacer and his driver in November 2000, was arrested Saturday in New York on espionage charges.
Also arrested with Aquino, a close associate of Senator Panfilo Lacson, was a Federal Bureau of Investigation intelligence analyst.
The analyst, Leandro Aragoncillo, who had top-secret clearance and who worked at a New Jersey US Army base, has been charged with passing classified information about Filipino leaders to Aquino who passed it on to current and former officials of the Philippines, according to an FBI complaint made public on Monday.
US officials made a public disclosure of the espionage case on the same day President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo arrived in the United States to preside over a UN Security Council meeting in New York on terrorism and other issues.
Aragoncillo, 46, a Filipino national who is a naturalized US citizen, and Aquino, 39, a senior superintendent of the disbanded Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force (PAOCTF), were ordered held without bail following an appearance before US Magistrate Patty Shwartz.
The PAOCTF was once headed by Lacson before he became a senator.
The defendants face a charge of conspiracy and a charge of acting as unregistered foreign agents. The latter carries a sentence of up to 10 years and a $250,000 fine.
Specifics about the classified information passed on by Aragoncillo to Aquino were not revealed in the complaint which, however, gave some clues as to the nature of the pair's efforts.
Change in leadership
In an e-mail that Aquino sent Jan. 2 to an unnamed "high-level" public official, he said that Aragoncillo "wants to talk to you and give you some updates on the political situation in the country."
"He claimed that a change in leadership is boiling and that it is just a matter of time," Aquino wrote, according to the complaint.
US Attorney Christopher J. Christie said there was no evidence that the administration of Ms Arroyo was involved, but declined to say if the suspects were in contact with opposition factions in the Philippines.
The Philippines has been beset by persistent coup rumors since Ms Arroyo was accused of rigging last year's elections.
Consul's report
In a report to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), Philippine Consul General Cecilia Rebong gave details of the charges against Aquino, which she said were the following:
• Acting as an agent of a foreign official without notification of the Attorney General in violation of Title 18 of the US Code, Section 951.
• Knowingly communicating classified information by a government employee to an agent or representative of a foreign country (i.e. receiving classified information).
• Conspiracy to commit all of the above offenses in violation of Title 18 of the US Code Section 371.
Officials No. 1 and 2
The charge sheet stated that Aquino "transmitted classified information to a former national level public official (unnamed public official No. 1) and to present national level public officials (unnamed public officials No. 1 and 2)," Rebong said.
At a briefing, DFA spokesperson Gilberto Asuque maintained that Rebong's report on the nature of the charges "contained no names or identification of nationalities" of the three alleged recipients of information that Aquino illegally obtained from the FBI analyst.
"In the following days we might be able to know who are behind the activities of Michael Ray Aquino," Reynaldo Wycoco, National Bureau of Investigation chief, told ABS-CBN.
FBI seeking NBI help
Wycoco said the names of the officials, including a second high-level official, would be revealed upon indictment.
He said FBI officials had asked the NBI for help in the case against Aquino.
He said the FBI wanted to know who supplied Aquino with money and who was the intended recipient of the classified documents.
The FBI also wanted the NBI to help check Aquino's telephone and bank records, according to Wycoco.
Aquino, who fled to the United States after being indicted in Manila, apparently tried to buy the material from the FBI analyst, the NBI chief said.
101 classified documents
Wycoco said Aquino was arrested in his house in Queens, New York, and Aragoncillo at his home in Woodbury, New Jersey.
Aragoncillo, a US Marine for 21 years, was hired to work at Fort Monmouth in July 2004 and began sending classified information and documents in January, according to the FBI complaint.
Investigators found that from May to Aug. 15, Aragoncillo printed or downloaded 101 classified documents relating to the Philippines, of which 37 were classified "secret," the complaint said.
The probe by US immigration authorities began after Aquino was arrested on March 7 in New York, accused of overstaying the tourist visa with which he entered the United States in July 2001. He had been free on bail.
The DFA had cancelled Aquino's travel papers, making him an undocumented alien in the United States.
8-week surveillance
The NBI submitted to the US Department of Homeland Security in April documents linking Aquino to the abduction and murder of Dacer and his driver Emmanuel Corbito.
Aragoncillo met with immigration officials to inquire about the arrest of Aquino, which prompted a review of his work at Fort Monmouth, an Army base on the central New Jersey coast, the complaint said.
Federal prosecutors and the FBI used phone taps and surveillance, and monitored computers and e-mail accounts as part of the eight-week investigation.
After his arrest, Aragoncillo "essentially admitted that he took classified information," said Assistant US Attorney Karl H. Buch.
Debts amounting to $500,000
Christie would not say what motivated the suspects. Buch said that Aragoncillo had $500,000 in debts, mostly mortgages on rental properties, and that Aquino had been investigated in the Philippines in connection with a conspiracy to murder two people.
The FBI suspended Aragoncillo on Monday. Leslie Wiser Jr., the special agent in charge of the FBI's New Jersey operations, said it was "disheartening" that one of the agency's workers faced such charges.
Aragoncillo retired honorably as a gunnery sergeant in September 2004 after 21 years in the US Marine Corps. Wearing blue jeans and a T-shirt, with closely cropped hair, he stood nearly at attention during his brief court appearance.
In her report, Rebong said Aquino's first court appearance on Sept. 12 was not an arraignment since he was not yet required to enter a plea.
The judge, she said, just read Aquino's rights and asked him if he had a lawyer to represent him or would like to be provided one.
When Aquino replied that he did not have a lawyer for the case, the judge said he would be given a criminal justice attorney.
Aquino, however, has hired an immigration lawyer, Felix Vinluan, who confirmed the arrest of his client to the Philippine Consulate, Rebong said.
Rebong said she had to call up the US Department of Justice to inquire why the consulate was "not immediately informed" of the arrest.
Quoting Buch, the consul general said it was "because of the covert and sensitive nature of the case (that) no consular notification has as yet been made."
Rebong said Aquino was detained at the Passaic County Correctional. His second hearing is scheduled for Sept. 21.
The US Embassy here declined to comment on the case.
"This is a criminal case being investigated by the authorities in the United States. We don't have a comment to make," embassy spokesperson Ruth Urry said.
Destabilization plot?
Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez has written the US government, through its embassy in Manila, to provide the Department of Justice with an "update and a more complete information" on the information that Aquino had obtained from an FBI analyst.
In a letter to Jeff Cole of the US Embassy, Gonzalez said the information could be "detrimental to our government."
"Should local personalities and politicians in the Philippines be mentioned, we request that we be furnished with the names," he said.
He also asked that the government be furnished with a "summary of the documents downloaded by (Aguino) so that the government can take the necessary action under the circumstances."
Gonzalez told reporters that the activities of Aquino could be linked with the "current destabilization moves in the country."
The arrest of Aquino is a breakthrough because it would "unmask ... people manipulating these things by trying to gather dirt from outside," the justice secretary said.
"It is very obvious that (Aquino) would not be gathering documents like these or whatever documents they feel would be derogatory against the government ... if these would not be used for political ends," Gonzalez said.
Aquino is one of the leaders of the Be not Afraid Movement in the United States, which has planned to undertake protest actions against Ms Arroyo while she is in New York or Washington D.C., according to the website of the movement.
that whole Sandy Berge thing is peanuts compared to this... MSM thinks..
And a country with corruption problems. Once it's in the hands of politicians there, will they resist the temptation to sell info to al Queda?
Were not talking voters here but killers, or have you not noticed we have troops there assisting them to put down the insurgents?
Well, there were so many FOB's. I think Charlie Tree may have been the restaurant guy, but he and Huang were paying big bucks to the Clintonistas, and we'll probably never know everything they got in return.
why the hell isn't the abc website working---is it being overcooked?
50,000 dollar fine and a 3 year loss of Security Clearance. Oh, and admonishment not to do 88 in a 55..
And you know this how?
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