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Pentagon Linguist Charged with Exposing U.S. Spies to Hezbollah
National Review ^
| March 4, 2020
| ZACHARY EVANS
Posted on 03/04/2020 8:17:15 PM PST by lowbridge
A contractor for the Pentagon has been charged with providing classified U.S. intelligence to a Lebanese national connected with terrorist group Hezbollah, the Justice Department announced on Wednesday.
The department alleges Mariam Taha Thompson, 61, began transmitting the classified intelligence around December 30, when Iraqi militiamen stormed the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. Thompson is a linguist who at the time was working at a U.S. special forces base in Erbil in northern Iraq.
The classified “files contained classified national defense information including true names, personal identification data, background information, and photographs of the human sources, as well as operations cables detailing information the human sources provided to the United States government,” read an FBI affidavit filed in the case.
Thompson was arrested on February 27, and was due to appear in court on Wednesday. On February 19 FBI agents searched Thompson’s Erbil residence and discovered documents under her mattress with the names of three U.S. intelligence assets, as well as a warning for the target of one of those assets.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 201912; 20191230; 202002; 20200227; 202012; again; erbil; espionage; hezbollah; hizballah; humanassets; humint; iran; iranians; iraq; lebanon; linguist; linguists; mariamtahathompson; mariamthompson; pentagon; spies; spooks; translators; usembassy; usembassyplots
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To: nwrep
Oh come on, don’t ruin that line in Perfect Strangers.
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posted on
03/04/2020 11:05:56 PM PST
by
wastedyears
(The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
To: lowbridge
[ and discovered documents under her mattress ]
Nobody would ever look there!
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posted on
03/04/2020 11:59:47 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: SaveFerris
[ and discovered documents under her mattress ] Nobody would ever look there!
Actually, I thought it was a pretty good place to hide stolen documents. I would have never thought to look under there. 😁 /S
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posted on
03/05/2020 12:08:55 AM PST
by
Mark17
(Father of US Air Force Officer in pilot training. Air Force aircraft, go faster than Army tanks)
To: Mark17
I’ve got over $750 million in cash stored under mine.
Don’t tell anybody!
Oh, and a paper on Cold Fusion that works with tap water and paperclips.
It will revolutionize the industry!
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posted on
03/05/2020 12:12:10 AM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: SaveFerris
I’ve got over $750 million in cash stored under mine.Isn’t your bed a little lumpy? 😁😆
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posted on
03/05/2020 12:17:38 AM PST
by
Mark17
(Father of US Air Force Officer in pilot training. Air Force aircraft, go faster than Army tanks)
To: Mark17
Naw, I smoothed the cash out evenly.
Just like the ATM tells me to.
The mattress is 11 feet off the ground though...
I have to use a ladder to get into bed.
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posted on
03/05/2020 12:24:59 AM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: SaveFerris
The mattress is 11 feet off the ground though... I have to use a ladder to get into bed.
That would have been my next question. Like, how high is your bed? 😁
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posted on
03/05/2020 12:55:03 AM PST
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Mark17
(Father of US Air Force Officer in pilot training. Air Force aircraft, go faster than Army tanks.)
To: SaveFerris
Oh, and a paper on Cold Fusion that works with tap water and paperclips. Be careful, that's how I lost my plans for a 200 mpg carburetor back in the 70's!
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posted on
03/05/2020 1:39:23 AM PST
by
ETCM
To: lowbridge; All
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posted on
03/05/2020 5:02:59 AM PST
by
Cobra64
(Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
To: lowbridge
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posted on
03/05/2020 5:10:38 AM PST
by
Vision
(Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped.)
To: ETCM
Got it.
But why wasn’t she seized by our military?
We need the FBI, these days, to nab traitors at US bases in (effectively) war zones? WTH?
Agreed on that last: We’ve certainly executed others, justly, for less.
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posted on
03/05/2020 5:23:09 AM PST
by
Paul R.
(The Lib / Socialist goal: Total control of nothing left wort h controlling.)
To: lowbridge
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posted on
03/05/2020 6:50:11 AM PST
by
CMSMC
To: sgt_lau
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posted on
03/05/2020 9:24:28 AM PST
by
Viking2002
(There's a little Al Bundy in all of us. And we vote.)
To: ETCM; Mark17
I invented the solar-powered Greta Thunberg Pinto back in the 1970’s.
It made free energy using a perpetual motion machine I put in the glove box.
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posted on
03/05/2020 9:31:34 AM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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