STOP giving these FOREIGNERS GOVERNMENT JOBS! PSTUPID!
Better methods of striking two rocks together to produce a sharp edge?
......”from Ethiopia”
news.yahoo.com
A US government contractor who worked at the State and Justice departments has been arrested on charges of spying, reportedly for Ethiopia.
Abraham Teklu Lemma, 50, a naturalized US citizen of Ethiopian descent, was arrested August 24 and is charged with providing national defense information to a foreign government, the Justice Department said.
The criminal complaint against Lemma, a Silver Spring, Maryland, resident whose LinkedIn profile describes him as an IT systems and data analyst, was unsealed on Friday.
In a statement announcing Lemma’s arrest, the Justice Department did not name the country he was allegedly spying for, but it was identified by the New York Times and other US media outlets as Ethiopia.
According to an affidavit filed by an FBI investigator, Lemma carried out his highly paid espionage activities between December 2022 and August 2023, depositing tens of thousands of dollars in cash into bank accounts in the Washington region.
Lemma copied secret and top secret information from dozens of intelligence reports at the State Department and provided it to an “official associated with a foreign country’s intelligence service” via an encrypted messaging service.
The information included documents, photographs, notes and maps relating to what the affidavit called the “Relevant Country.”
The affidavit quoted a September 2022 exchange of messages in which the foreign official told Lemma “it’s time to continue (your) support,” to which he replied, “Roger that!”
“Lemma’s communications with the Foreign Official... included a discussion of military activities of a rebel group involved in an armed struggle against the government of the Relevant Country,” it said, believed to be a reference to the Tigray conflict.
In addition to working at the State Department, Lemma, who has held a top secret security clearance since 2020, also worked as a contract management analyst at the Justice Department.
Ethiopia is a major recipient of US aid; Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited there in March.
Lemma is charged with two counts of espionage and one of unlawfully retaining national defense information.
The espionage charges carry a potential death sentence while the retention charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years.
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Linked-in
Abraham Teklu Lemma
Data Analyst US Gov .Agency.
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
6 followers 4 connections
U.S. Department of State
University of Baltimore
Why allow anyone from the Dark Continent to immigrate to the U.S.? I can think of no compelling reason. Note: this guy chose to be a scumbag government employee. That’s bad enough.
the gov’t killed the fosenburgs on a charge of treason.
I would suggest the same.
This is how empires work, and this is the whole point of globalism and open borders.
Maybe there will be a few unwanted consequences, but having mini-Ethiopias, mini-Venezuelas, mini-Indias inside the US government and its corporate cronies means you can always control, influence and manipulate these nations' societies and governments.
The decline of Ethiopia, from haile Selassie to hardly Selassie at all.
If the traitor has a “D” by his name he’ll be just fine. The DOJ, FBI and Homeland will line up to kiss his butt.
How dare he!! Doesn’t he know the only ones allowed to share classified information with other countries, especially the Chi-coms, are the Clinton and Biden crime families.
Selling classified intel ?
Looks like he is positioning himself for a cabinet position in the biden administration
I guess everyone has forgotten the IT company championed by Blabbermouth-Schultz that ran the computer network in the House. It was later discovered to be a direct conduit back to Pakistani Intelligence. The staff and owner fled back to Pakistan; Blabbermouth is still in the House. Also forgotten, in the Zero years OPM hired a company for its network upgrade and overhaul. This company was Latin American in ownership and offshored the work back to Latin America. It was later discovered the staff back there was almost entirely Chinese. Soon after this OPM had the huge network breach were 100s if not millions of files- SF71s, etc. were off-loaded to China. Coincidence I am sure.
I actually thought he might be Israeli since the first name was Abraham.
The text of the first news report kept repeating the same useless phrase - "the relevant country" - instead of saying Ethiopia.
I am very relieved to see that this is not another Israel v. USA spy scandal.
Great! Now Ethiopia has the bomb.😡
“What would ethiopia do with it except sell it onward”
I have a friend in Minsk
Who has a friend in Pinsk
Whose friend in Omsk
Has friend in Tomsk
With friend in Akmolinsk
His friend in Alexandrovsk
Has friend in Petropavlovsk
Whose friend somehow is solving now
The problem in Dnepropetrovsk
And when his work is done
Ha-ha! - begins the fun
From Dnepropetrovsk to Petropavlovsk
By way of Iliysk and Novorossiysk
To Alexandrovsk to Akmolinsk
To Tomsk to Omsk to Pinsk to Minsk
To me the news will run
Yes, to me the news will run!