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2006-12-04 Fifth Column

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Posted by tu3031 2006-12-04 15:43|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Being a Fire Control Specialist, he had some level of access to the weapon systems; this is or could be a big deal. if we cannot hang him, perhaps the other boys in the pen will show him how to drop the soap......

Posted by USN, ret. 2006-12-04 15:55|| 2006-12-04 15:55|| Front Page Top

#2 I think the this guy and Sgt Hassan should share a cell that doubles as a gas chamber.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-12-04 16:33|| 2006-12-04 16:33|| Front Page Top

#3 He should be cut into ity bitty pieces and buried alive!

Posted by rjschwarz 2006-12-04 17:02|| 2006-12-04 17:02|| Front Page Top

#4 RJ,

Nah. Just return him to his former command the next time they go out for a cruise. Explain to the crew what he did. Have them give him a tour of the torpedo room while they are submerged. Who knows, he could accidentally get into the tube and Whoosh! Problem solved.

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2006-12-04 17:16|| 2006-12-04 17:16|| Front Page Top

#5 I would suspect that what awaits him is the special federal max prison block at Florence, Colorado. It is reserved for people like Walker, Pollard, and some others.

They wear pajamas, not the regular prison uniform, and sandals with no heels. They are in lockdown in their cells 23 hours a day, and are given 1 hour in a concrete pit in the center of the block to exercise, alone, each day.

Guards are forbidden to speak to them. They are given food in their cells on a paper plate with no implements, to eat by hand. They must return the paper plate. They are not permitted anything else in their cells on a permanent basis. No blankets are allowed and lights are on 24 hours.

They can be issued one book at a time, which is checked when they are done to insure no pages are missing, and then it is destroyed. They are permitted only one visitor per month, which is very difficult, as the prison is located in an isolated place in the Rocky Mountains. No plane traffic is permitted near the prison.

Deceased prisoners are cremated.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-12-04 17:59|| 2006-12-04 17:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Not whoosh, but flush.

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2006-12-04 18:35|| 2006-12-04 18:35|| Front Page Top

#7 Anonymoose, I wouldn't be upset if all of our maximum security prisons were run that way, except the destroying the books part.

Posted by rjschwarz 2006-12-04 18:40|| 2006-12-04 18:40|| Front Page Top

#8 He's under military jurisdiction, which means no Supermax. Servicemembers get more protections, in court and in confinement.

In a typical pre-trial agreement, the accused agrees to plead guilty and the prosecution agrees to a cap on the sentence, usually well below the max possible.

The military judge doesn't know what the cap is, so the accused is sentenced as if no PTA exists, and then the cap will kick in if the judge's sentence exceeds it. I couldn't begin to guess what the cap might be, since it depends on a million things known only to the prosecution and defense.

I would love to know what possessed him to do this. Hard to believe that money is all.

Posted by exJAG 2006-12-04 18:54|| 2006-12-04 18:54|| Front Page Top

#9 Was he hoping for a post-enlistment offer from the NYT?

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2006-12-04 19:08|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2006-12-04 19:08|| Front Page Top

#10 "he turned over confidential or secret classified information to foreign agents in Manama, Bahrain in March 2005 and in Mexico City on 19 March 2006."

-okay, got that part. However, exactly which foreign govt's was he dealing with?

Posted by Broadhead6 2006-12-04 20:07|| 2006-12-04 20:07|| Front Page Top

#11 CNN says Russia. As a fire control tech he would have access to info on torpedo, Tomahawk, and decoy capabilities but, hopefully, not submarine sensor capabilities. The USS Albuquerque is an original Los Angeles class, not a 688I.

Posted by ed 2006-12-04 22:39|| 2006-12-04 22:39|| Front Page Top

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