Terresa Monroe-Hamilton:
I’ll give you three guesses what the religion of the engineer is, but you’ll only need one. That’s right… the religion of pieces. Gee, I’m shocked! Who would have thought someone with a name like Mostafa Ahmed Awwad might be a security risk? Not the American Navy… no-siree.
So, a Naval engineer attempts to hand over schematics for our latest aircraft carrier and technical data to an FBI agent posing as an Egyptian intelligence officer and the penalty is only a maximum of 20 years on each count? Isn’t this treason? Or has that now been redefined as well? Dead drops, wearing a pinhole camera to photograph classified material and dealing with foreign intelligence officers adds up to being a spy. And, holy crap! It gets worse. He wanted to discuss with that intelligence officer where to strike that carrier with a missile to sink it. Did you hear about this in the news? Nope – crickets. Nothing to see here – yet. This guy worked in nuclear engineering and planning. His security clearance gave him access to information on Naval nuclear propulsion systems. Tick, fricking, tock people.
From Stars and Stripes:
Though it was unclear from the documents how investigators first began to track Awwad, a search warrant affidavit made public Friday says that an FBI undercover agent first called him on the afternoon of Sept. 18.
The FBI agent, “posing as an Egyptian intelligence officer,” identified himself as “Yousef,” from Washington, D.C., according to the affidavit by FBI Special Agent James Blitzer. The undercover agent then “asked Awwad to meet him at a public park in Hampton” the next day.
Awwad agreed, and they met at 7:30 a.m. the next morning at Sandy Bottom Nature Park, off Big Bethel Road and Hampton Roads Center Parkway. During the 90-minute meeting, the affidavit says, Awwad told “Yousef” he intended “to utilize his position of trust with the U.S. Navy to obtain military technology for use by the Egyptian government.”
We should be empathetic and respectful, right, Hillary?
And echoing John Kerry and Obama he had to be pitifully poor, too, because that’s the only reason people turn to jihad.
Just like the burkha’d woman in Abu Dabai who murdered the American kindergarten teacher in the bathroom stall.
OOPS! The cameras of that Arab Emerit followed her right to the door of her palatial mansion!
What ever happened to the death penalty for treason?
This is what’s called an unauthorized espionage as opposed to the more common authorized espionage.
Want to know how far a HARM missile goes? Just look it up on the maker’s website. Want to know the armor thickness of the M1A2? Yep, just go to the maker’s site. The U.S. military is also good at giving away secrets. The U.S. military had allowed a Soviet general to sit in a F-117 before the U.S. public knew about the aircraft. The U.s. military has taken Chinese and Soviet generals on field trips to U.S. military factories. If a general, senator or president hates a weapon’s project, he will state how to defeat the system so that it becomes an obsolete system (see the A-10 as an example).
@Gregory_Dittman: #3
I love to see the shows that tell about the military stuff that are being developed, but I have also wandered why we are telling our enemies that we are developing them, and why are we telling them so much about the stuff BEFORE IT IS EVEN ISSUED. I also like to watch the shows that tell how crooks were caught, but still wonder why police are on camera telling the mistakes the crooks made that got them caught.
You can tell by my avatar that the A-10 is my favorite plane. It hasn’t been built for many years, yet it is one of the first planes sent in when air strikes are called.
What is interesting is that the democrats voted AGAINST almost every major hardware we are using in Iraq and Afghanistan. That includes the Patriot missile system that is protecting Israel from incoming rockets. It makes a person wonder who’s side they are on.