Spy caught in the whitehouse!

[no1important]

former Marine in WH spy case

FBI Arrests Alleged Spy Who Worked in White House

Pretty strange, eh?

 

[neocon-hunter]

RE: Spy caught in the whi

*snicker*

 

[mrmom2]

I think its all a smoke screen CNN is all over it but they've said squat about the Plame affair .Cheney and Rove may be indicted and CNN has said little .This story sounds like a vintage Rove move .What better way to deflect real scandal :wink:

 

[Ocean Breeze]

Oct. 5, 2005 — Both the FBI and CIA are calling it the first case of espionage in the White House in modern history.

Officials tell ABC News the alleged spy worked undetected at the White House for almost three years. Leandro Aragoncillo, 46, was a U.S. Marine most recently assigned to the staff of Vice President Dick Cheney.


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"I don't know of a case where the vetting broke down before and resulted in a spy being in the White House," said Richard Clarke, a former White House advisor who is now an ABC News consultant.

Federal investigators say Aragoncillo, a naturalized citizen from the Philippines, used his top secret clearance to steal classified intelligence documents from White House computers.

In 2000, Aragoncillo worked on the staff of then-Vice President Al Gore. When interviewed by Philippine television, he remarked how valued Philippine employees were at the White House.

"I think what they like most is our integrity and loyalty," Aragoncillo said.


Classified Material Transferred by E-Mail

Officials say the classified material, which Aragoncillo stole from the vice president's office, included damaging dossiers on the president of the Philippines. He then passed those on to opposition politicians planning a coup in the Pacific nation.

"Even though it's not for the Russians or some other government, the fact that it occurred at the White House is a matter of great concern," said John Martin, who was the government's lead espionage prosecutor for 26 years.

Last year, after leaving the Marines, Aragoncillo was caught by the FBI while he worked for the Bureau at an intelligence center at Fort Monmouth, N.J.

According to a criminal complaint, Aragoncillo was arrested last month and accused of downloading more than 100 classified documents from FBI computers.

"The information was transferred mostly by e-mails," said U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie at the time of Aragoncillo's arrest.

Since that arrest, officials say Aragoncillo has started to cooperate. He has admitted to spying while working on the staff of Vice President Cheney's office.

hmmm...Almost comedic.... :wink: (one could work with this one... :wink:

 

[Ocean Breeze]

I think its all a smoke screen CNN is all over it but they've said squat about the Plame affair .Cheney and Rove may be indicted and CNN has said little .This story sounds like a vintage Rove move .What better way to deflect real scandal :wink:

CNN and Rove work in concert.. :wink: CNN OVERPLAYS a "safe" story.........and underplays something worthwhile.....and ignores something that could be devestating to the" precious" bush regime.

 

[Ocean Breeze]

US official admits spying for Israel

The Pentagon analyst gave away classified information

By Associated Press

10/06/05 "AP " -- -- A top US Defence Department analyst with expertise in the Middle East has pleaded guilty to giving classified information to an Israeli embassy official and members of a pro-Israel lobbying group.

Lawrence Franklin, 58, said in court on Wednesday that he was frustrated with government policy and that he had hoped the two members of American Israel Public Affairs Committee could influence policy with their connections at the National Security Council.

He also admitted giving classified information to a political official at the Israeli embassy, but said the information he received from the official was far more valuable than what he gave.

"I knew in my heart that his government had this information," Franklin said.

"He gave me far more information than I gave him."

Franklin pleaded guilty to two conspiracy counts and a charge of unlawful retention of national defence information.

US District Judge T S Ellis III set sentencing for 20 January.

Franklin, who was one of the Pentagon's policy experts on Iran and the Middle East, was indicted in June on five charges.

Conspiracy

The two AIPAC officials who allegedly received the information, Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, also have been charged with conspiring to obtain and disclose classified US defence information.

AIPAC fired Rosen and Weissman in April. Both AIPAC and Israel deny any wrongdoing.

According to the indictment, Franklin met periodically with Rosen and Weissman between 2002 and 2004 and discussed classified information, including information about potential attacks on US troops in Iraq.

Rosen and Weissman would subsequently share what they learned with reporters and Israeli officials.

On at least one occasion, Franklin spoke directly to an Israeli official.

Rosen, a top lobbyist for Washington-based AIPAC for more than 20 years, and Weissman, the organisation's top Iran expert, allegedly disclosed sensitive information as far back as 1999 on a variety of topics, including al-Qaida, terrorist activities in Central Asia, the bombing of Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia and US policy in Iran, according to the indictment.

Franklin at one time worked for the Pentagon's No 3 official, policy undersecretary Douglas Feith, on issues involving Iran and the Middle East.

 

[Jo Canadian]