Strange stories are popping like corn today. Here’s another one.
Shirley faces up to 10 years in federal prison when she is sentenced in federal court in Martinsburg, likely later this year https://t.co/5RLRen3S9n
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) July 6, 2020
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia woman who previously served in the Air Force planned to offer top-secret information from the National Security Agency to the Russian government, prosecutors said Monday in announcing her conviction in federal court.
Elizabeth Jo Shirley pleaded guilty as part of a plea agreement to one count each of willful retention of national defense information and international parental kidnapping, the U.S. Justice Department said in a news release.
Shirley, 47, of Hedgesville, faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine on the national security charge and up to three years and a $250,000 fine on the kidnapping charge. The statement did not say whether a sentencing date was set in federal court in Martinsburg. […]
Shirley was arrested last August at a hotel in Mexico City and the girl was returned to her father. Authorities said the NSA document was located that month in a storage locker in Martinsburg, while messages Shirley had drafted to Russian government officials along with other classified information were found on her electronic devices.
“Given Shirley’s troubling conduct after fleeing the United States, the damage to national security could have been far greater had law enforcement not acted swiftly,” said John C. Demers, an assistant attorney general for national security. “Shirley will now be held accountable for betraying the trust of the American people.”
Russia seems to have a lot of operatives in our government, not just the big orange one in the Oval Office. As Anthony Scaramucci was wont to misquote, “The fish smells from the head down.”
Jiminy! I’m glad she was caught. I feel fur her daughter.
she would not have been caught if not for the custody issue? Lordy.
I’m having WV flashbacks! I lived only seven miles south of Martinsburg for ten years, and the office of the agency I worked for before transferring to NC was less than a mile Hedgesville. I drove through it frequently on my way out to visit clients in Berkeley Springs. I doubt I unknowingly crossed paths with this gal since she seems to have spent a career in the Air Force and I moved away from that area six years ago but it makes me wonder.
More importantly though is that we’ll probably never know whether (and how much) actual intelligence she managed to pass along. However, coupled with the whole bounty on U.S. troops story that’s been in the news another major (I hope this blows up into a huge story) about Russian intelligence operations against our country. And Trump will of course say nothing. Or, if he does he’ll call it fake news, or a hoax or tell us Putin denies it in the strongest terms so our own intelligence folks should STFU because he knows more than they do.
I’m actually surprised Barr didn’t quash this. Makes me wonder if there’s so much stuff brewing out there he can’t keep track of it all.
Swear to the gods, we’re living a dumber version of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
We’re already in Stupid Watergate, so why not that?
I think we’re living in an age of an ever expanding number of NON-serendipitous clones of Inspector Clouseau. Bumbling, inept individuals that are clueless as to how incompetent they are, but unlike the movie Clouseau their luck runs out.
My mom’s own comparison is to the Keystone Cops.
With all that hardware, she mush have needed a truck.
I don’t condone spies, but if she “betrayed a trust”, what do you call stealing an election by working with russia, using the office to steal as much money as possible, actively seeking China, russia, whomever to steal another election, ignore & actively undermine the federal response to a pandemic you released that has killed more people than all the wars since korea? Oh, and let’s not forget being just fine & dandy with your buddy putin paying bounties for American scalps. & thats just what we know. Wonder what other bodies are buried under the floorboards?
Traitor. Traitors are definitely alive & well it would seem. Being a traitor to the United States only gets 10 years?
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