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Former FBI Agent Pleads Guilty To Leaking Secrets to the Associated Press
McGruber writes "Today, Former FBI agent Donald John Sachtleben has agreed to plead guilty to leaking secret government information about a bomb plot to the Associated Press. In May, Sachtleben agreed to plead guilty to unrelated charges of possessing and distributing child pornography, and to pay restitution to an identified victim portrayed in the images and videos he allegedly possessed."
The deal includes a prison sentence of three years and seven months, and "If accepted by a judge, the prison sentence would be the longest ever handed down in a civilian court for a leak of classified information to a reporter."
What ever happened to the whistleblower act? He should have immunity over this. Clearly the government has lost their mind and have gone completely tyrannical. Did you know that just last week the feds now told the police that anyone that there may be more to 9/11 than what meets the eye, like believing in WTC7 means that they're probably a terrorist? Using VPN, proxies, encryption, storing food for more than 5-days are other reasons as well. Every month new possibilities come up and anything we say online, on the phone, or over the radio can and will be used against us if we're deemed a threat to the government. In other words, the government doesn't give a shit about us, it's all about THEIR better interest. Whether you believe in any whistleblower or not of the past decade isn't what matters, what matters is the result of calling out your government for doing something illegal and then getting arrested that matters. This is a BIG problem and why people should be concerned. Next, your visitation to the therapist or doctor could be a reason for you to not bare arms or even be arrested as a suspected terrorist because quite frankly EVERYONE is a suspect at this point. But you know what they say, if everyone else is a suspect, there's a possibility that you're the one who's the real suspect, and quite frankly I think we can all agree that the government is the real terrorist, trying to scare the living crap out of people and telling them what to do "or else". /rant
They're pissed about the press leaks and out for blood, so he gets the longest ever sentence for leaking classified information.
But the kiddie porn charges? Nah, just pay a fine.
Wow.
I'm growing more and more horrified to be a citizen of the USSA.
You're welcome to leave and find out what an actual repressive state looks like, kid.
Respect can be lost, but fear sticks around.
And that is exactly what the sons of bitches who are behind the
curtain ( the ones who pull the strings that make Obama move )
are interested in : making sure Americans are terrified to speak
out.
I'm growing more and more horrified to be a citizen of the USSA.
You're welcome to leave and find out what an actual repressive state looks like, kid.
said the anonymous coward.
Thats an impressive clip. Two minutes of promises and I'm not sure a single one of them has been kept.
No lobbyist in administration
No corporate welfare pork barrel spending
Posting bills for 5 days for comments before signing them
Meetings between lobbyst and administration publically shown
All tax breaks/subsidies for business publically listed
So are people who called him a liar when he made that speech still racists?
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." - Voltare
This will get you started.
Why is it that stupid people like you always assume the US must be compared to the USSR
when there are questions about the US ?
Maybe it's because your stupid ass has never traveled outside the US and because your
daddy who bought the old double-wide trailer you live in was a member of the John Birch Society ?
There are many other countries in the world which are far less repressive than
the US or Russia.
Denmark, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, and France are good examples.
The US is far from the best country in the world. One of the best strategies for choosing
a country is to avoid any countries which are attempting or even pretending to be a serious
power in the geopolitical sense. That means Russia, China, and the US are out. For an
intelligent person there are metrics which show the US is not even close to the top of the
list of best countries to live in. One example is the number of prisoners per capita. The US
is either at the top of that list or near the top, which is not what anyone with decent intelligence
would expect from a country which was supposed to be so wonderful.
So fuck you and your ignorant redneck brain-dead bullshit.
I'm growing more and more horrified to be a citizen of the USA.
Why? It seems like a fair sentence to me. There was no "whistleblowing" here that I can see. His disclosure compromised field agents, and could have done real harm. He was apparently just leaking classified info for his own benefit. This guy was not a Snowden, or even a Manning.
Are you so sure?
Julian Assange was accused of rape. Bradley Manning was outed as a transsexual. Tons of diplomatic cables were released by Wikipedia, showing that our diplomats overseas are horny toads. The list goes on. Accusing people of sexual impropriety has long been used as a means of discrediting people, or for blackmail purposes. Being gay, until recently, was a reason to disqualify someone from holding a high level security clearance in this country. Bill Clinton's fall from grace over the Monica Lewinsky affair. And how many Republicans have been caught in public restrooms doing, achem, decidedly gay things while supporting decidedly anti-gay legislation?
Any woman will tell you sex is a weapon; Only men need convincing of this. And if you read the accusations that follow leaks like this, you will tend to notice that a discussion of the person's sexual past and present come up with startling regularity, and invariably cast as deviant, abnormal, etc. Now, whether this is actually the case, or just the mental acrobatics of a sexually repressed society... I'll leave that one for the reader to figure out.
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