Last Sunday 6o Minutes ran a story about this Chinese American who spied for China and got some information about U.S. strategy in selling arms to Taiwan from a government worker. It is not the biggest secret info in the world. I don't think selling arms to Taiwan is anything top secret. But these two guys deserved to be punished. What I don't understand is that the guy who gave the info got 5 years while the Chinese guy got 15 years. It seems to me they are at least equally guilty and if anything the guy that was entrusted with the info is more of a traitor because he had to get clearance and pledge not to sell out.
This is similar to my complaint from 2005 when a FBI agent James Smith gave sensitive info to his lover katrina Leung. The government gave him immunity to testify against Leung. This is outrageous because he is the one who gave away the secrets and he got off totally except for losing his job, I think! As I said before, jailing Chinese or any foreign spy would not stop other countries from spying us. China would be more interested in their own people who would give away its secrets to other countries. By giving our own traitors shorter sentences or no sentence will not deter other people in the future from succumbing to greed.
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