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Home Front: WoT
Ex-FBI Agent Takes Guilty Plea in Spy Case
2006-06-08
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A former FBI agent pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to a misdemeanor charge in connection with a Chinese spying investigation. Denise K. Woo, 47, pleaded guilty to one count of disclosing confidential information. Prosecutors agreed to drop five felony counts of disclosing a wiretap, revealing the identity of a covert operative and lying to FBI agents when questioned.

Woo, who has been discharged from the FBI, will be on probation for one year and fined $1,000 when she is sentenced on Aug. 28.
Gee, wotta tough sentence. She can do this standing on her head.
A 2004 indictment alleged that in 1999 Woo intentionally disclosed the name of an informant to a man identified only as "J.W." and told him about telephone surveillance involving an investigation. The man was a Chinese-American employee of a defense contractor under investigation for possibly passing defense secrets to China, authorities said later

In the plea agreement, Woo acknowledged she had passed on information about the informant's identity to J.W. She acted out of concern that the man, a family friend, was being wrongly suspected, her lawyers argued.
Posted by:Steve White

#3  Absurdly lenient deal
...Only because she gave them something better...

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2006-06-08 06:26  

#2  what flyover said.
Posted by: RD   2006-06-08 00:59  

#1  WTF? Absurdly lenient deal. This asshole broke her oath and broke the law for nothing more than personal satisfaction, regardless of the results of the investigation. Our legal system is so biased in favor of the defense - and prosecution offices almost everywhere in this country seem populated by lazy second-rate talentless morons - that it is utterly unfit to serve as the venue for dealing with our national security.

As mojo said yesterday, they should throw her ass in jail and melt the key.
Posted by: flyover   2006-06-08 00:38  

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