Jewish American caught giving US secrets to Israel

[HeroinJuggernaut]

# The former U.S. government scientist served on classified aerospace projects
# He was arrested and charged with illegally trying to deliver classified information
# David Nozette allegedly thought he was dealing with an Israeli intelligence official

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A former U.S. government scientist who served in sensitive positions on classified aerospace projects has been arrested and charged with trying to deliver classified information to someone he thought was an Israeli intelligence official.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/19/u.s.espionage.charge.israel/index.html

not the first time this has happened.

 

[perdition(troy]

and not the first country it happened to. there is absolutely nothing controversial about this.

 

[dafoomie]

You have to wonder why someone in such a high position would put himself in such peril for 10 grand.

 

[rapsodist]

Your title is misleading. Israel had nothing to do with this--there's no culpability on their part in this particular matter.

 

[Magehart]

When I first read this I thought to myself, "Isn't this treason? Why the don't we execute spies anymore."

 

[VipFREAK]

Improperly? Isn't classified info... Classified.

 

[Droenixjpn]

[quote name='Magehart']When I first read this I thought to myself, "Isn't this treason? Why the don't we execute spies anymore."[/QUOTE]

Because, we'd be called Nazis if we did that. (Not very serious here.)

 

[Zing]

[quote name='dafoomie']You have to wonder why someone in such a high position would put himself in such peril for 10 grand.[/QUOTE]

To trick people into thinking that the US government is successfully withholding secret information from Israel? His other bank account probably grew by a few million.