[dakine]

Idiots...I hope they fry...

[Damocles]

Both face up to life in prison if convicted.

This sentence would seem a bit light in the face of treason. I thought treason was punishable by death...

[Redbob]

Lessee, they're accused of passing U.S. secrets to...Americans.

But some Chinaman at Los Alamos passes U.S. nuclear weapons secrets to the Red Chinese, and he walks.

Sounds fair to me.

[newgeezer]

Both face up to life in prison if convicted.

Whatever happened to the firing squad?

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

PLEASE PLEASE SAY IT IS BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON.

[hoosierskypilot]

By the way, what nationality is "Davila?"

[m1-lightning]

The details were not released because it would be too humorous if the top secret documents turned out to be an inventory sheet for coffee supplies.

[Wallace T.]

That a National Guard officer would try to pass military secrets to an attorney who may have ties to the white supremacist and militia communities is unusual. Are the latter groups preparing for an insurrection or a race war? Or, perhaps, have Muslim extremists with a shared hatred for "Zionists" and "the Conspiracy" made common cause with the anti-Semitic white separatist groups? There have been reports that Timothy McVeigh associated with Middle Eastern males before the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in 1995.

Someone named Rafael Davila would not be the first person you would suspect of having white supremacist ties. (Of course, he could be a Spaniard or a Latin American of European Spanish descent.) But then again, wasn't McVeigh's convicted accomplice, Terry Nichols, married to a Filipina? Mixed race marriages are the equivalent of blasphemy in white supremacist circles.

I wonder if there isn't more to the anti-Semitic, white supremacist underground than the trailer trash, redneck stereotype.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

The indictment accuses Davila-Cummings of attempting to pass top-secret U.S. documents sometime in August 1999. Her former husband is accused of "unauthorized retention" of national security documents that she is accused of attempting to deliver.

The phrase "former husband" is significant here. I'll bet one of them ratted the other one out for revenge over the divorce and failed to negotiate an immunity deal.

What's truly sad here is that after the Wen Ho Lee debacle, how can you prosecute these two? Wen Ho Lee stole nuclear secrets, he probably gave them to the Chinese, and Reno's justice department "accidentally" mishandled the case so that Lee walked. If these people (and the Clintons) are not on death row, that shows me that stealing and divulging classified information isn't even a crime anymore. Wen Ho Lee was rewarded with a full apology, a fat severence package, a high-dollar settlement, and full retirement.

[JudyB1938]

I live for the day when I see national headlines that state ...

EXECUTED FOR TREASON.

I won't mention who I think should be first - but FReepers know who it is.

[Grampa Dave]

Time to bring back the death penalty for those who sell or give away our nation's secrets.

This cost lives of our servicemen or puts them into harm's way.

Also, time to bring back the loyalty oath for anyone with even a confidential clearance.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

[Both face up to life in prison if convicted.]

Not enough.

[Spunky]

I put in the original title from my newspaper and it didn't come up.

Did a keyword for Espionage, Spy, Teacher, and nothing came up. I would have never thought to keyword for Davila. :-)