Posted on 05/04/2002 3:18:01 PM PDT by GeneD
The networks are already lining up commentators and staking out camera positions for the sentencing of renegade FBI agent Robert Hanssen, scheduled for next Friday, fifteen months after his arrest for espionage. But the confessed spy's long-anticipated day in court, originally slated for January, could be delayed a second time, according to government sources. The hitch: after debriefing Hanssen for months, FBI agents still aren't convinced he has told the whole truth about his role in what a blue ribbon commission recently called "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history." Hanssen's lawyer, Plato Cacheris, insists his client has done his best to cooperate fully, as he pledged when he struck a plea bargain last July to avoid the death penalty. Still, some FBI officials think serious inconsistencies remain in his account of 21 years as a double agent for Soviet intelligence, during which he is estimated to have betrayed 50 U.S. spies and potential recruits. (It didn't help that Hanssen lost his temper with a skeptical bureau polygrapher.)
FBI director Robert Mueller and top Justice officials have spent days debating whether to move for another postponement. Meanwhile, Hanssen is undergoing his most intensive probing yet, at the hands of a CIA damage assessment team that includes psychiatrists and interrogation specialists practiced at dealing with traitors' complex psychological subterfuges. Hanssen is said to have lost weight and appears more stooped than ever, but sources say flashes of the old arrogance show: he has complained recently that the press is overplaying his sexual obsessions — by reporting on his pornographic writings, which he posted on the web.
Ooohhh, the poor little traitor is in a tiff!
I hope this guy meets with an accident in jail.
All I need is a few minutes alone with this guy and I will find out what he divulged to the commies. Oh, I could use a bucket of water, a car battery and some jumper cables too. He would talk.
His wife and children should be terminated and chopped up into little bits, his parents should be removed from the face of the earth. His house should be razed to the ground and left as a reminder. Every FBI agent should be made to view the process.
However, he has struck a deal with the Feds, his wife gets a $3000 a month pension, his $500,000 house is paid for by blood money and his sentence will probably be two years.
I hate being a pragmatist.
I heard (on the Laura Ingraham show)that that turned into a huge Brawl and the guards had to intervene from another room.Now,her guest said he 'Smacked' the 'polygrapher'.We can certainly surmise that the Polygrapher was getting to him.That piece of dirt must think he has rights or something.Why we don't execute traitors to our country is beyond me.I disagree w/ people who say "Oh, that never stops anybody from committing a crime".
Really? Well,How Would You Know,Huh?
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