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Originally posted by iori_komei
Yep it's real.
I just saw this on Lou Dobbs.
I disaprove of this completely.
Warships are meant to defend a country, not take day-trips
across the Pacific to go shopping and play soccer.
Originally posted by crisko
Originally posted by iori_komei
Yep it's real.
I just saw this on Lou Dobbs.
I disaprove of this completely.
Warships are meant to defend a country, not take day-trips
across the Pacific to go shopping and play soccer.
And what about our Navy?
Gertz writes in 'ENEMIES: HOW AMERICA'S FOES STEAL OUR SECRETS, AND HOW WE LET IT HAPPEN,' that details about the spies were first discovered in 1999 by counterspies who were able to trace some of the money paid by Beijing.
Chinese intelligence paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to the spies, and one CIA officer alone got some $600,000 in Chinese money.
Gertz discloses for the first time how spies were recruited by members of an ultra-secret Chinese spying unit known as the First Department of the People’s Liberation Army military intelligence service.
The book states that then-CIA Director George Tenet never pressed the mole hunt in the agency, and as a result the spies were never found or prosecuted. The weak response is part of what Gertz calls the U.S. government’s “see-no-evil” approach to Chinese espionage, a policy that has severely damaged U.S. national security.
The Chinese spies were never found and either retired or may still be operating, according to U.S. intelligence officials quoted in the book.
The spy penetrations of CIA are part of a major Chinese program of intelligence operations against the United States, which include the case of Chinese spy Katrina Leung, who seduced two FBI counterintelligence officials, and who gave extremely valuable electronic eavesdropping secrets to China.
Gertz raises the specter that decades of failures in pursuing China spies indicate that China still has spies operating inside the U.S. government.
Originally posted by Shar
Dosnt sound friendly to me. I'll try not to cry.
[edit on 19-9-2006 by Shar]
Originally posted by firebat
Originally posted by crisko
Originally posted by iori_komei
Yep it's real.
I just saw this on Lou Dobbs.
I disaprove of this completely.
Warships are meant to defend a country, not take day-trips
across the Pacific to go shopping and play soccer.
And what about our Navy?
We've used naval warships for non-combat purposes before... remember the Tsunami in 2004?
We send warships everywhere, regardless of whether or not they're guns are going to be used.... they're floating support centers and come in handy for logistical reasons.
Not to mention that we obviously use them in diplomatic procedures and events.
Originally posted by iori_komei
Yep it's real.
I just saw this on Lou Dobbs.
I disaprove of this completely.
Warships are meant to defend a country, not take day-trips
across the Pacific to go shopping and play soccer.
Originally posted by Shar
I just cant wait till they leave. When they do hopefully peacefully I sure do hope its posted here. Cause right now Im not going to sleep very well.
Originally posted by Shar
.... Cause right now Im not going to sleep very well.
Preplanned or not, they have no business here. None.
Preplanned or not, they have no business here. None.
The American spy plane that crashed into a Chinese plane off the coast of China? What business do THEY have there?
I take it you have never served on board a ship.
The ship itself may be able to stay out indefinitely but the crew can't. Try a six month Indian Ocean deployment sometime and then tell me they are just here for the shopping.
As far as these ships posing a threat, I'm quite sure that there was probably a fast-attack sub keeping an eye on them on their trip over.
Originally posted by Shar
"Chinese military exercises increasingly focus on the United States as an adversary."