Ex-FBI Agent Arrested

ABC News.com ^ | 4/9/2003 | Pierre Thomas

[StonyMan451]

A retired FBI agent who was in charge of Chinese counter-intelligence in California is under arrest, sources told ABCNEWS.

The former agent was identified as James Smith. He was being held in connection with his former job, sources said, but the charges were not immediately available.

Sources said Congress was being briefed on the arrest before it is announced to the public, which was expected to happen later today.

Department of Justice officials declined to comment on the case.

Smith retired in from his job in the bureau's Los Angeles office in 2000.

[k2blader]

Bump!

[mombonn]

Do you think James Smith is his real name?

After enduring a string of managers at work, none of whom lasted long, we finally got one named James Smith. I questioned whether it was his real name, too! LOL

[_Jim]

Do you think James Smith is his real name?

"Standard issue pseudonym"

[aristeides]

Do you think James Smith is his real name?

James Smith does seem to be the father's name. Interesting connections with China detailed here: Chairman James A. Smith Speaks Out.

I wonder who assigned the younger Smith to the China counterespionage job.

[meadsjn]

Izzat you, James?

[aristeides]

From that article on the father: His nomination to the Commission by Dr. Norman Francis, president of Xavier University in New Orleans, came just after the 1974 Constitutional Convention. An Amendment allowed two private black universities, Dillard and Xavier, to nominate candidates for the state’s seven-member Civil Service Commission. The father is a graduate of Xavier.

[Frank_Discussion]

They must be talking about this dude:



I hear he was very hard to catch...

[Pro-Bush]

take out the clinton trash

Exactly!

[HarryCaul]

If that's the father, the part about China is interesting indeed.

As is the part about founding a southern S&L that seemed to have crashed the same time as all the others. Hmmm.

[HarryCaul]

Well, it says the son was an agent in San Diego. Maybe a coincidence.

[End Times Sentinel]

it's instructive to note that our biggest, truly damaging traitors (Aldrich Ames, the Walker Family, Hansen, etc.) have mostly been nondescript, non-ethnic types.

 

FRiend, you truly do a disservice to The Arkansas Love Machine to exclude him from his peers.

 

 

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[Diddle E. Squat]

bump

[Balata]

lol

[fuzzy122]

Uh-oh! Does Diane Feinstein know about this yet?

[husky ed]

Congress was being briefed

Is this because Hilary wouldn't be around anymore?

[Spunky]

I wonder if this is the same James Smith

"The London newspaper The Independent reported that Michael McKevitt, 51, who is said to be the head of the dissident republican paramilitary group the Real IRA, referred to an American by the name of James Smith in meetings with David Rupert, an undercover FBI agent.

The paper, quoting proceedings in a Dublin court, said that according to an FBI agent, McKevitt said: "If you wanted to have Tony Blair assassinated he [James Smith] is your man."

For full article read:

Court hears of 'your man' to assassinate Blair

[Maximum Leader]

Hmm, his family is friends with a 22 year Chinese femlae tour guide who is promoted to a high government position---

I guess if I recruited an FBI counterintelligence agent, I'd expect a promotion too!

[2timothy3.16]

Kind of odd isn't it?

Not, when it concerns treason, esspecially when the treason could involve someone way up the food chain, say and expresident or member of his inner circle, ...

[Bullish]

I hope he starts singing like a bird.

[aristeides]

Ex-FBI Agent Charged With Passing Info

By CURT ANDERSON
Associated Press Writer
April 9, 2003, 4:48 PM EDT

WASHINGTON -- A former FBI agent who helped investigate Clinton-era campaign finance allegations is being charged with passing classified information to a Republican activist in California.

James Smith was to appear Wednesday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles to face a charge of gross negligence, federal law enforcement officials said.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Smith is accused of giving the information to Katrina Leung, a political activist with connections to the Chinese government.

The type of information was not immediately disclosed and it was not clear whether investigators believe any of the material reached the Beijing government.

Leung also could be charged, the sources said, declining to be more specific. A man who answered Leung's office phone Wednesday afternoon said she was declining to comment.

The allegations involve conduct that is several years old. Smith, who retired in 2000, was one of the agents assigned to the campaign finance task force that investigated fund-raising irregularities in the 1990s inside the Democratic Party.

Shortly after taking over the FBI in 2001, Director Robert Mueller created a task force to investigate. Sources familiar with the investigation said Mueller transferred one senior manager for failing to pursue the initial probe aggressively enough.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-fbi-agent-charged,0,1890624.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines