Report: FBI blew many chances to identify (Chinese) spy (Katrina Leung)

[UpInArms]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12950815/from/RSS/

WASHINGTON - The FBI missed many opportunities to identify a suspected Chinese spy and her FBI lover, including a tip that she “was in bed with” the bureau’s Los Angeles office, a Justice Department internal review said Wednesday.

Katrina Leung, a Chinese-American paid informant for the FBI, and her handler, former counterintelligence agent James J. Smith, were able to deceive the FBI about their romantic relationship for nearly 20 years, Justice Department inspector general Glenn A. Fine said. In all, the FBI paid Leung $1.7 million over 18 years, Fine said.

FBI supervisors failed to act on two serious incidents just 10 months apart in the early 1990s that indicated Leung was passing classified information to China without FBI authorization, Fine said in the report’s 23-page executive summary. The full report is classified, he said.

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Smith and Leung were arrested in 2003 and indicted on various charges, the most serious of which related to misuse of classified information. Smith pleaded guilty to lesser charges in 2004. A federal judge dismissed the case against Leung, rebuking prosecutors for misconduct.

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[NorthernSun]

1. Republican fundraiser

She got off because she was a GOP fundraiser. I wonder how much of that FBI money was funneled to Republican campaigns in California?
http://cicentre.com/Documents/DOC_Smith_James_J_Case.htm

[upi402]

2. Medals all 'round!

And promote the most inept.
:sarcasm: