China or al Qaeda: Which is the bigger threat?
Our Assistant Attorney General calls Chinese spying a “grave danger to our national security”. Is he mistaken?
Washington Times: The FBI today arrested a Pentagon official and two Chinese-born residents on espionage charges for passing defense secrets to China, the Justice Department announced.
Gregg William Bergersen, 51, of Alexandria, was arrested at his home on espionage charges. Tai Shen Kuo, a Taiwan-born U.S. citizen, 58, and Yu Xin Kang, a Chinese national, 33, both of New Orleans, were arrested in New Orleans on charges of conspiracy to provide defense secrets to China. Mr. Bergersen worked as a weapons system analyst for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, in Arlington, which is in charge of U.S. arms sales to foreign nations. He held a top-secret clearance.
One official said the case involved the transfer of command, control, communications and intelligence equipment originally sold to Taiwan that was diverted to China. Court papers state that the three men conspired to transfer defense secrets during meetings with Chinese intelligence officials.
“Today’s prosecution demonstrates that foreign spying remains a serious threat,” said Kenneth L. Wainstein, assistant attorney general for national security. Mr. Wainstein said in a statement that the case has “all the elements of a classic espionage operation: a foreign government focused on accessing our military secrets; foreign operatives who effectively use stealth and guile to gain that access; and an American government official who is willing to betray both his oath of public office and the duty of loyalty we rightly demand from every American citizen.”
Such spy networks “pose a grave danger to our national security, and we should all thank the investigators and prosecutors on this case for effectively penetrating and dismantling this network before more sensitive information was compromised,” he said.
bet these folks contributed to hillary.
That is why it is important we stop playing “war games” and get prepared for a real war in a decade or so.
Natural resources are getting more and more scarce and wars are fought over them. Economic crisis cause major wars. Yet, we borrow from the very people we may end up at war with if they feel their supplies of raw materials are threatened by the U.S. demand for those same materials.
If wrong, the worse we have is a well defended nation, low debt, manufacturing our own military parts and ammunitions and technology, etc. It will mean the 1/2 trillion spent on interest can be spend on defense without borrowing to do it.
But, we can do it with the current way we are depending on a “guns and butter” economy.
Should be we “can’t do it with the current way we are depending on a “guns and butter” economy.
The bigger threat you ask? How about our own elected “leaders”?
That’s my vote!
Good point Hugh.
We have run this nation into the ground but, who elected them?
How about some of the multinational corporations where these spies cavort like some Roman orgy? I don’t care what color they are. A spy is a spy. If we can’t defend our ideas and technology we’re dead in the water.
I get daily quotes from Liberty Quotes and since we are on communist nations and spies, this was interesting to get these today.
quote:
“I do not believe in communism any more than you do,
but there is nothing wrong with the communists in this country.
Several of the best friends I have are Communists.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
(1882-1945), 32nd US President
Source: The New York Times, May 6th, 1933
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Franklin.Roosevelt.Quote.1C5F
“I never would have agreed to the formulation of the
Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven,
if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.”
– Harry S. Truman
(1884-1972), 33rd US President
1961
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Harry.Truman.Quote.B224
“The individual is handicapped by coming face to face
with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.”
– J. Edgar Hoover
Source: speaking of communism (1956)
Jan
Many of us here on the right have always been anti-Communist, but never anti-Chinese. And anti-communist but not anti-Constitution.
I agree that the people in China who are working and struggling to survive are not the problem. In fact, the Chinese government is not the problem.
It is our policies and our debt that requires us seek loans from Communist and totalitarian governments that is the problem. It is our tax and compliance programs that make U.S. business uncompetitive.
Until we change our “thinking” here as a nation, we will continue to have problems beyond anyones expectations just a few years ago.
Bigger threat?
When was the last time China attacked the US?