Stars & Stripes reports that Petty Officer 2d Class Bryan Minkyu Martin has been charged with four counts of attempted espionage along with eleven charges of mishandling classified information.
Martin accepted $3,500 from an undercover FBI agent in exchange for dozens of pages of documents that were classified either secret or top secret, according to a 2010 warrant filed in Eastern District Court in North Carolina and obtained by the AP.
During the initial Nov. 15 meeting with the undercover agent at a Hampton Inn near Fort Bragg, N.C., Martin told the agent his current assignment focused on Afghanistan, and that he would one day work for the Defense Intelligence Agency, according to the warrant.
“Martin stated that over his prospective 15 to 20 year career, he could be very valuable,” the warrant says, according to AP.
Although the four counts of espionage qualifies Martin for the grand prize of the death penalty, the military rarely seeks capital punishment. Although it seems to me that Martin is just begging for it.
I am curious to know just who it was he thought he was providing the information to. No foreign government or entity is mentioned in the article.
Sounds like he wanted to be a bigshot like in all those spy movies. Well, give him a big shot of drain cleaner in his veins and call it good.
Sounds like it’s time to bring back keelhauling.
And that’s SERIOUS shit on an aircraft carrier.
If the Army won’t seek the death penalty in PFC Manning’s case, they definitely won’t do it this sailor’s case.
We are an incredibly tolerant people.
We are an incredibly tolerant people.
Which will doubtless be our undoing. And memo to Joe, before you swoop and poop in here, notice I didn’t say we should be IN-tolerant, but we should draw the line somewhere. Yet we keep moving it back time and again in the name of political correctness.
Do try and understand the difference, won’t you?
“Do try and understand the difference, won’t you?” He won’t, because he can’t.
Maybe Joe’s cell block is locked down today….
NHSparky,
I was told the reason we didn’t hang Aldrich Ames, Hansen, and the others was because we wanted to know all about their handlers, methods, money routes and so on. Each of these villains had something of intelligence value to give in exchange for their lives.
I suspect PFC Manning made a deal through his attorney(ies) to sing like a canary. By all accounts, he had help – a smart attorney is going to have the kid tell everything about everything in exchange for 3 hots & a cot for… 60+ years in Mannheim or Leavenworth.
This sailor, however, talked to FBI agents. No intelligence value to exchange. He’s running on grace, and due process at this point.