Book Says FBI Was Told in '90 Hanssen Might Be Spy

Washington Post ^ | December 16, 2001 | Cheryl W. Thompson

[aculeus]

The FBI was warned 11 years ago that agent Robert P. Hanssen might be spying for the Russians, but the bureau failed to investigate for nearly a decade, according to a new book on one of the most damaging espionage cases in U.S. history.

In "The Bureau and the Mole," Washington Post reporter David A. Vise writes that Hanssen's brother-in-law, Mark Wauck, an FBI agent in Chicago, discovered in 1990 that Hanssen "was hiding thousands of dollars in cash" in his house and "spending too much money for someone on an FBI salary."

[aculeus]

So what heads will roll?

[ninonitti]

Not at the FBI; someone will be promoted...that's how they handle it.

[Kermit]

Sessions, Potts and Freeh were all to busy blowing up churches in Waco to worry about treason and spying.

[Cicero]

As you say, it looks like an excellent opportunity for half-a-dozen people to be promoted for keeping their mouths shut. It's not that often that you get an opportunity to be promoted as good as this. Occasionally somebody shoots a mother holding her baby in her arms or shoots a kid because he objects to seeing his dog unexpectedly shot down right in front of him. Or maybe you get a chance to lose some X-rays. But it doesn't happen all THAT often.

No doubt outsiders can have a pretty good idea who was responsible for the Hansen mess simply by watching who is promoted in the next year or two.

[XpandTheEkonomy]

Hanssen should've been hanged or executed by firing squad soon after a trial. Instead once again we get a plea bargain.

The politically correct policy of life sentences and even short prison terms for spies in exchange for "cooperation" is part of the core sickness within our intel community.

This headline...

SPY HANSSEN GETS FIRING SQUAD

...is the greatest deterrent to future spying.

Imagine if Walker [not taliban], Pollard, Hanssen etc...ALL received quick death sentences.

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