Leak to China called blow to NSA program

The Washington Times ^ | September 11, 2006 | Bill Gertz

[Paul Ross]

A former analyst for the Pentagon

[Paul Ross]

Montaperto has associates among senior intelligence and policy officials at the Pentagon and White House, which is why officials say he likely will receive a light sentence.

More light needs to be shown on this subject.

Light sentances tend to make a mockery of any serious clamp-down on leaks and treasonous betrayal.

[dead]

When the hell did we stop shooting spies?

[taxcontrol]

Disclosing highly classified material to other nations in a time of war should AUTOMATICLY qualify for the death penalty.

[bahblahbah]

This is old news. I've heard this from another Gertz article a long time ago.

[Paul Ross]

This is old news. I've heard this from another Gertz article a long time ago.

Not the particulars of the impact on our ability to track the Chinese proliferation, nor the lightness of the sentancing issue.

[Diogenesis]

Berger was not qualified as NSA.
He was a millionaire lawyer and lobbyist with a career centered on expanding trade with China.
Tom Laughlin, http://www.billyjack.com/jung/08_politics/articles/990515_spy.html

Berger was the "go-to" man regarding China policy
when Communist Chinese money was being funneled into Democrat Party coffers
in exchange for policy concessions, strategic nuclear technology,
and all pending patent applications at the US Patent Office.
The Hill, "Fundraiser resurfaces from 1996", Sam Dealey

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Berger stonewalled the Energy Department about Chinese spying in Los Alamos for three years.

[dfwgator]

Exactly, he should get the Rosenbergs treatment.

[Mo1]

FYI Ping

[AFPhys]

We need to hang ANYBODY who leaks classified: including the editors and writers of the NYSlimes.

I'm getting livid about these betrayals of our nation.

[Triggerhippie]

Montaperto could receive 40 to 57 months in prison under sentencing guidelines, but attorneys and friends of Montaperto are seeking leniency and no jail time.

This seems lenient enough to me. I would have recommended a public skinning and beheading of this bastard.

If the punishment is neither cruel nor unusual, then it's not punishment.

[gobucks]

Ronald has some comments about China on PBS in 1998. And here he is:

Ah, but I forget: this is no such thing as 'sovereignty' any more. I guess I shouldn't be offended.

[Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin]

I've always been under the impression that good 'ole Clinton was the one who invited the Chinese to steal as many classified documents as they desired, so they would be his friend. So, again I pose the question; Is anyone in D.C. not a coward?

[tallhappy]

There was a complete dearth of any news coverage on Montaperto's case last time I looked.

[dljordan]

It's a Sandy Berger crime. He should probably get life but will get a slap on the wrist.

[Paul Ross]

So, again I pose the question; Is anyone in D.C. not a coward?

With some rare exceptions...and to varying degrees...Tom Tancredo, Curt Weldon, Duncan Hunter , Ron Paul, John Kline and so on...they usually find themselves not just fighting the MSM, but sometimes on the outs with the Administration too...

But finding backbone instead of yellow stripes is getting as hard as finding the proverbial honest man...

Diogenes

[diogenes ghost]

And I'm still living in a damned barrel.

[kcvl]

Investigators from the FBI and Naval Criminal Investigative Service started a sting operation in July 2003 that involved asking Montaperto to join a China-related intelligence program that required him to undergo polygraph testing. Under questioning prior to the test, he made the admissions about passing secrets to China, the statement said.

The information supplied to the Chinese included top secret details of the sale of Chinese military equipment and missiles to the Middle East, the statement said.

The plea agreement requires Montaperto undergo debriefings and forbids him any contact with foreign agents. "He's already given a lot of information," one official said.

According to U.S. intelligence officials, Montaperto was among a number of U.S. intelligence officials who came under suspicion of being informants following the defection of a Chinese intelligence official in the late 1980s. The defector revealed that Beijing had successfully developed five to 10 clandestine sources of information here.

Montaperto also was part of an influential group of pro-China academics and officials in the U.S. policy and intelligence community who share similar benign views of China. The group, dubbed the Red Team by critics, harshly criticizes anyone who raises questions about the threat posed by Beijing's communist regime.



http://tinyurl.com/pk7ns

[Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin]

Yes. The folks you posted are braver than the average dim-wit walking around in D.C. However, they are not utilizing any and all available forums to declare and expose the obvious incompetency regarding important issues. So, in essence, they too are being cowards simply because they are refusing to stick their neck out and expose the shams for fear for their own selves, and/or monetary incentives. Nothing of any consequence ever gets accomplished when one is so afraid for their own life that they fail to do what is right. And it is in those instances where the only thing left to do, for someone who finds themself in that situation is to call on God and pray...

[ConservativeMind]

Put him in a cell with a 300-pound gay rapist.

[Paul Ross]

Thanks for that link. The part where Montaperto claimed that there was "no" evidence of appeasement of China during the Xlinton administration is simply bald-faced lying effrontery: