US court jails 'agent of China'

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Source: BBC News

A Chinese-born engineer found guilty last year of conspiring to export sensitive US defence technology to China has been jailed for 24.5 years.

The court in California had also convicted Chi Mak, 67, of acting as a foreign agent and of making false statements to federal agents.

Mak had worked on submarine propulsion systems for defence contractor Power Paragon in Anaheim.

The FBI found defence CDs in luggage of Mak's relatives at Los Angeles airport.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7311816.stm

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1. We've lost integrity, we'll lose more in this manner.

We can't even tell if this story itself is sn outright lie anymore.

But, we now torture, we attack pre-emptively, and thus there will be more of this kind of backstabbing of US. Here lies part of the real cost of a Bush presidency. And it will be far more expensive than this expensive action.