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Choux |
10/05/05 |
A foreign spy worked in the White House in the office of the Vice President....Al Gore and Dick Cheney's Vice Presidencies.
See the following article: ABC NEWS Oct. 5, 2005 — "Both the FBI and CIA are calling it the first case of espionage in the White House in modern history.
Officials tell ABC News the alleged spy worked undetected at the White House for almost three years. Leandro Aragoncillo, 46, was a U.S. Marine most recently assigned to the staff of Vice President Dick Cheney.
"I don't know of a case where the vetting broke down before and resulted in a spy being in the White House," said Richard Clarke, a former White House advisor who is now an ABC News consultant.
Federal investigators say Aragoncillo, a naturalized citizen from the Philippines, used his top secret clearance to steal classified intelligence documents from White House computers.
In 2000, Aragoncillo worked on the staff of then-Vice President Al Gore. When interviewed by Philippine television, he remarked how valued Philippine employees were at the White House.
"I think what they like most is our integrity and loyalty," Aragoncillo said.
Classified Material Transferred by E-Mail
Officials say the classified material, which Aragoncillo stole from the vice president's office, included damaging dossiers on the president of the Philippines. He then passed those on to opposition politicians planning a coup in the Pacific nation.
"Even though it's not for the Russians or some other government, the fact that it occurred at the White House is a matter of great concern," said John Martin, who was the government's lead espionage prosecutor for 26 years.
Last year, after leaving the Marines, Aragoncillo was caught by the FBI while he worked for the Bureau at an intelligence center at Fort Monmouth, N.J.
According to a criminal complaint, Aragoncillo was arrested last month and accused of downloading more than 100 classified documents from FBI computers.
"The information was transferred mostly by e-mails," said U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie at the time of Aragoncillo's arrest.
Since that arrest, officials say Aragoncillo has started to cooperate. He has admitted to spying while working on the staff of Vice President Cheney's office.
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Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 10/06/05 5:07 am:
I just found out more . Apparently this is not the breaking story that ABC made it appear to be . Here is the story in The Manila Standard date Sept. 15 :
Michael Ray Aquino, who skipped the country at the height of the Kuratong Baleleng rubout scandal, was arrested in the US for espionage along with Leandro Aragoncillo, a Federal Bureau of Intelligence analyst and a naturalized US citizen.
According to the FBI, Aragoncillo downloaded 101 files at the Fort Monmouth Army base in New Jersey and sent them to Aquino who, in turn, transmitted the information back to Manila to the three national-level public officials.
Senator Ping Lacson has admitted receiving information from Aquino but insists that they were not classified material but common information that can be read in newspapers.
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is about as corrupt as they come . Apparently Aragoncillo was feeding this info. to her opposition .She was caught on tape discussing stuffing ballot boxes to steal an election ;the CD of the conversation was sold on the streets .But since it was taped "illegally" she can't be impeached for it. In the US Leandro Aragoncillo but perhaps in the Phillipines he is a hero.
Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 10/06/05 8:50 am:
I have to tell you this is a big deal and like pealing an onion the deeper you get into it the more it smells. Al Qaeda used the Phillipines as a staging area as much as they did Afghanistan . The precursor operation to 9-11 called Operation Bojinka was planned there . There are links that connect Aragoncillo to Mark Jimenez who was in the middle of Democrat fund raising scandals in the 90s .
Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 10/06/05 11:16 am:
there is a possible inaccuracy in the story that is being floated that I have to check out . It is possible that none of the espionage happened while he was in the White House . He was nabbed at a base in NJ ;caught red handed in fact but I have found nothing confirming he flicked anything from the VP office .The indictment only mentions the base thefts . Clarification/Follow-up by Choux on 10/06/05 11:22 am:
I'd like to know. One story on TV had him copying documents in the White House. I was outraged at that.
Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 10/06/05 11:23 am:
check this out at radioblogger .there is a time line very different than what is being reported .
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