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Ex-CIA Contractor Passaro Appeals 8...
Lately, with Obama’s decisions to close down Guantanamo and give enemy combatant Ali Al-Marri a criminal trial, there’s been a lot of talk about human rights and the mistreatment of detainees. In this climate, it will be especially interesting to see what happens in the current case of David Passaro’s appeal.
Passaro, a former CIA contractor …
Two American Women Held in N. Korea...
Two American journalists based in San Francisco and working for CurrentTV have been arrested by North Korean guards and are currently facing intense interrogation in Pyongyang, North Korea. Reporter Laura Ling and photographer Euna Kim are allegedly under investigation for espionage, but U.S. officials have not been very open about their plans to get Ling and …
Death Sentence for Yemeni Spy
A Yemeni man accused of spying for Israel has just been sentenced to death by Yemen’s state security court. Two other men implicated in the same case got off with a comparative slap on the wrist – three and five years in prison. According to judge Mouhssien Alwan, the evidence was “clear enough to let the …
Two Men in Germany Charged with Esp...
The world of espionage continues to turn in Europe, where two men have just been indicted in Berlin for espionage. They allegedly shared classified German government documents with criminal contacts and foreign intelligence in Macedonia and Kosovo.
42-year-old German Anton Robert K. worked for the German diplomatic mission in Kosovo’s capital, and while there, funneled confidential …
Still No Parole for Israeli Spy Con...
Israel does not suffer spies lightly. Over a decade has passed since Israeli spy and businessman Nahum Manbar was convicted of treason. He put Israel’s national security in danger by selling potentially harmful info and materials to enemy state Iran, both of which could have helped Iran advance their chemical weaponry.
Manbar was sentenced to 16 …
Chinese Internet Spy Arrested for F...
China has recently been in the news for allegedly spying on U.S. businesses. Turns out that their internet spies have been wreaking havoc on home turf too. Yu Bing, Beijing’s top government internet spy, was recently arrested in a case involving corporate espionage and bribery.
Yu works for the Beijing Municipal Security Bureau, where he heads …
Criminal Trial for America’s Last...
43-year-old suspected terrorist Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri has been officially indicted with providing material support to Al Qaeda and conspiring with others to provide material support to Al Qaeda. The two-count indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in the Central District of Illinois on Feb 26 and announced in a US Department of Justice …
Iran: Questionable Espionage Charge...
Iran’s ranking high on the espionage radar at the moment. They’ve just officially accused seven leaders of the Baha’i religion, whom they’ve been detaining in Iran for the last eight months, of spying on behalf of Israel.
The word on the street is that there are no legitimate grounds for the charges. Indeed, even the word …