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Three Former US Intelligence Officials Admit to Providing Hacking Technology to the UAE
Epoch Times ^
| 09/14/2021
| Ivan Pantchoukov
Posted on 09/14/2021 9:16:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Three former U.S. intelligence and military officials have agreed to pay $1.7 million to the U.S. government and admitted to providing hacking technology to the United Arab Emirates, the Department of Justice announced on Tuesday.
Marc Baier, Ryan Adams, and Daniel Gericke made the admission as part of a first-of-its-kind deferred prosecution agreement, under which they are also to pay $1.68 million, cooperate with the Justice Department’s investigation, cut ties with UAE intelligence and give up their security clearances. The Justice Department agreed to drop the prosecution if the three men comply with the terms for three years.
Lawyers for Adams and Gericke did not immediately return messages seeking comment, and a lawyer for Baier declined to comment.
Baier, Adams, and Gericke worked at a UAE-based company that carried out hacks on behalf of the foreign government, according to court documents. The trio provided their employer with hacking and spying systems used to break into computers in the U.S. and around the world, prosecutors say.
In a letter earlier this year, the CIA warned about “an uptick in the number of former officers who have disclosed sensitive information about CIA activities, personnel, and tradecraft.” The UAE case appears to fit into this pattern. One of the examples listed was “working for state-sponsored intelligence-related companies in non-fraternization countries.”
The DOJ accuses the three men of computer fraud and violating export control laws by providing defense services without the required license. Baier, Adams, and Gericke did not dispute any of the allegations as part of the deal with prosecutors.
“This is a loud statement” that the Justice Department takes such cases seriously, said Bobby Chesney, a professor at the University of Texas School of Law who specializes in national security issues.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hacking; intelligence; uae
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To: SeekAndFind
They take it seriously, but there’s no prison time.
Didn’t people used to get shot for things like this?
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posted on
09/14/2021 9:20:53 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(There's more to fear from a plandemic, than a pandemic...)
To: SeekAndFind
I think they need to reach room temp.
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posted on
09/14/2021 9:26:59 PM PDT
by
healy61
To: DoughtyOne
Didn’t people used to get shot for things like this?In a sane world, I would say that is likely, but we don’t live in a sane world. I wonder who will pay their 1.68 million dollar fine? Some communist, probably.
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posted on
09/14/2021 9:29:17 PM PDT
by
Mark17
(USAF ATC, Retired. Father of USAF pilot. ✈️ ATCs & pilots, the quintessential elements of aviation )
To: healy61
deferred prosecution agreement The 1/6 guys just didn't go big enough. Commit real crimes and you get much more favorable treatment.
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posted on
09/14/2021 9:30:23 PM PDT
by
Bearshouse
(Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem. *Thomas Jefferson)
To: SeekAndFind
As we emerged out of the 1950s, and into the 1960s....you had all kinds of US ‘secret-agents’ (basically CIA mercenaries) that went off into this type of behavior. This was what drove the Church Committee hearings in the mid-1970s...to clean up the mess.
I see the same thing likely occurring in a couple of years. Too many former US mercenaries on the loose.
To: SeekAndFind
I miss my country. The hardest part is watching the deterioration.
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posted on
09/14/2021 9:34:17 PM PDT
by
shanover
(...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
To: SeekAndFind
Wait....WHAT?
Didn't Jonathan Pollard rot in a prison cell for 30 years for less than this?
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posted on
09/14/2021 10:06:03 PM PDT
by
montag813
To: Mark17
They probably made much much more for selling us out, but
I suppose I could be wrong.
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posted on
09/14/2021 10:11:28 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(There's more to fear from a plandemic, than a pandemic...)
To: healy61
“ I think they need to reach room temp.”
While I may agree with this it is hard to punish them when you have a 4 Star General who committed treason and clearly broke his oath by indicating he would give aid and comfort to an enemy by refusing to faithfully carry out the orders of the Commander in Chief just because he disagreed with him politically. In order for the Uniform Code of Military Justice to continue to have credible authority he must be tried for treason. Then and only then should can we say that these traitors should also be punished.
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posted on
09/14/2021 10:26:48 PM PDT
by
TonyM
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To: montag813
“ Didn’t Jonathan Pollard rot in a prison cell for 30 years for less than this? “
Was he a democrat???
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posted on
09/14/2021 10:28:37 PM PDT
by
TonyM
(Score Event)
To: DoughtyOne
They probably made much much more for selling us out, but I suppose I could be wrong.You are probably right. They did it for the oldest reason in the book. MONEY. The Biden DOJ will let them keep their remaining millions, since they are doing the rat’s 🐀 bidding. Even after paying a 1.68 million dollar fine, these woke chumps will still have countless millions to spare.
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posted on
09/14/2021 10:39:27 PM PDT
by
Mark17
(USAF ATC, Retired. Father of USAF pilot. ✈️ ATCs & pilots, the quintessential elements of aviation )
To: DoughtyOne
They didn’t sell out, they were following orders. The trial is a coverup. A non-prosecution prosecution
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posted on
09/15/2021 12:44:08 AM PDT
by
.44 Special
(Taimid Buacharch)
To: SeekAndFind
This is what happens when your chain of command doesn’t move you after they get wind that you might be too invested in another nation’s security, rather than doing just the job you were sent to do. Multiple tours of duty in the same place, distant or not so distant family ties, and of course the rampant corruption of the DNC making everyone everywhere in the USG feel they deserve more than a paycheck.
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posted on
09/15/2021 1:04:24 AM PDT
by
Jumper
To: shanover
Yea, all us stinking white guys can’t die off fast enough for the third-turd sh#t-hold to take over.
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posted on
09/15/2021 1:05:39 AM PDT
by
Jumper
To: SeekAndFind
a FINE for espionage?!
Are you f*cking kidding me?!
You get bigger penalties for downloading a movie
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posted on
09/15/2021 2:49:07 AM PDT
by
sten
(fighting tyranny never goes out of style )
To: SeekAndFind
The perps have to pay $1.68 million.
How much were they paid by UAE? The $1.68 million could be a small commission payment.
This is a bad message to other people in similar situations.
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posted on
09/15/2021 3:51:59 AM PDT
by
UnwashedPeasant
(The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
To: DoughtyOne
Didn’t people used to get shot for things like this?
—
Accidents
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posted on
09/15/2021 4:14:08 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: shanover
I miss my country. The hardest part is watching the deterioration.
—
Been watching since Noxious Nixon rose to power, sick art heart for years when B. Clinton came along and put the country out of its misery, now watching the corpse deteriorate.
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posted on
09/15/2021 4:16:44 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: shanover
Specifically for me, the hardest part is watching how easily the fools that populate our country are pushed around.
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posted on
09/15/2021 4:18:18 AM PDT
by
Neverlift
(When someone says "you just can't make this stuff up" odds are good, somebody did.)
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