Translator Who Faked Identity Pleads Guilty To Having Secret Data

Wa Post ^ | 2/15/07 | White

[Paul_N_Lakeside]

Oh, great. Just great.

[Cicero]

The ComPost link seems to be broken.

[Maceman]

federal charges of possessing classified national defense documents, including sensitive material about the insurgency that he took from an 82nd Airborne Division intelligence group in 2004.

This is an outrage! I think they should give the perp the max -- three year's loss of security clearance, plus a $50k fine.

[bboop]

How about this -- do you think this is the ONLY one? But they won't use Jewish translators because why?

[darkwing104]

The man then used his false identity to get secret and top-secret clearances

How in the !!!!!!

[weegee]

The translator obtained U.S. citizenship under a false identity

So does this mean he is a citizen or isn't? That is important in determining if he committed treason.

[Hegemony Cricket]

Prolly just another hard-working furriner doing whatever it takes to get here and take part in the blessings of liberty we all enjoy.....

[Zeroisanumber]

I thought that the whole point of vetting for a security clearance was to ensure that something like this didn't happen. Who screwed up?

[NY Attitude]

Griles, former assistant attorney general Sue Ellen Wooldridge and ConocoPhillips lobbyist Don R. Duncan bought this vacation home in Kiawah Island, S.C., last year, paying $980,000. Griles and Wooldridge live together. (Alice Keeney -- Associated Press)

What does this have to do with the translator story?

[Republicus2001]

Matricula consular ID?

[SFC Chromey]

Come on people, you are all just delaying the inevitable. Who cares if someone faked who they are. They were just trying to make a better life for themselves in the US. Who can fault them? (sarcasm...REALLY!)

~ ok that was extremely difficult to type.

[petca-tim]

There are soooo many new applicants for security clearances that there is not enought time to do them all properly (imho). So backgrounds are done with "a lick and a promise" as my dear old mom used to say. That and keeping their fingers crossed.

[ChiefJayStrongbow]

they refer to him in court documents under several of his aliases, including "Abu Hakim" and "Abdulhakeem Nour."

[HardStarboard]

>>>What does this have to do with the translator story? <<<

My thought exactly!! Totally out of any context to the headline and the major point of the story. Poster must have conflated two "cut&pastes".

[MosesKnows]

This is an outrage!

Well said. I was about to post something similar. The bastard should be treated the way we treat anyone who steals classified documents.

[Snoopers-868th]

The bastard should be treated the way we treat anyone who steals classified documents.

Hummmmm, yea, treat him like Sandy Burglar that will teach him.

[txhurl]

Yeah. Maybe even yank his sec clearance. That'll teach him.

[Snoopers-868th]

Geez, did they do that to Burglar? I didn't think so.

[txhurl]

Well, for three years. Then he gets it back.