The short article in this coming week’s TIME Magazine begins this way:
Sound familiar? It will to regular BRAD BLOG readers.
The article, titled “China’s Big Export: When it comes to spying, Beijing likes to flood the zone”, continues…
But instead of assigning one well-trained agent to pursue a target, “the Chinese are very good at putting a lot of people on just a little piece and getting a massive amount of stuff home,” says a U.S. intelligence official.
So if this is a real problem in the United States, why has at least one — Hai Lin Nee (a/k/a Henry Nee), the one who was reported to authorities years ago by Clint Curtis as spying on the United States while working at Yang Enterprises, Inc. (YEI) — been arrested on three counts, allowed to plead guilty to just one, and then let go with hardly a slap on the wrist?
(Nee, believed by Curtis and YEI CEO’s Executive Secretary, Mike Cohen, to be an illegal alien has been allowed to stay in the U.S. and received just three-years probation and a $100 fine after having admitted “that business has been slow in the last year and that he had only sent parts out of the country ten to twenty times” according to the plea agreement. See our earlier exclusive report for more details and a look at the court papers.)
Perhaps the answer to that question might be found in TIME’s closer:
Hmmm…Has Henry Nee turned “asset”?
Is he now spying on/informing on his old friends at YEI?
Is that why late just last year the Feds allowed him to plead guilty to just one charge and then walk despite his arrest after a four-year sting operation?
Is that why he is still allowed to work for YEI, a company which requires “Top Secret clearance” for sensitive contracts with NASA and others which Jeb Bush’s former running-mate Rep. Tom Feeney (R-FL) had helped them attain? A company which, despite their denials, a “Special Agent assigned to the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force in Orlando, Florida” claimed via email on Nov. 22 of 2004 was “under investigation by another Division of the FBI”? (Would the company even know if they were being investigated by the FBI? Does the FBI send out telegrams as a courtesy to inform such companies in order to give them time to shred the evidence?) A company, mind you, which still claims that Nee had never been an “employee” or a “consultant” despite public records published late last year by The BRAD BLOG which demonstrate they are lying?
Has Henry made a secret deal with the FBI to turn state’s evidence against the Yang’s in exchange for his extraordinarily light sentence?
And finally, on a somewhat personal sidenote, shouldn’t all the rightwingers who’ve unsuccessfully attempted to discredit Curtis as a liar be ashamed of themselves for doing so simply to protect Feeney and his good friends, the Bush’s, while Curtis has been, apparently, both patriotic and extremely courageous in trying to help keep secrets of United States weapons technology from being stolen by the People’s Republic of China?
Do such rightwingers have any allegiance to their country and the safety of its citizens? Or is the retension of political power for their party of choice, even at the expense of National Security, one of those “moral values” they pretend to have and that we’ve heard so much about?
We have a feeling this story will continue…
(Thanks to BRAD BLOG friend, reader, occassional guest-blogger and “asset”, Fin of What We Know, for the tip on the TIME article!)
Interesting, very interesting.
I can’t remember the program, but it was mentioned that the reason our government doesn’t kick out their spies is so that their government won’t kick our spies. Could that be the case with Henry Nee? Although the unusually light sentence is a bit perplexing.
If Henry is an asset for the FBI, would they also be working on the vote swapping angle, or are they merely working on the technology transfer?
I know the FBI isn’t clandestine, but their not always an open book either.
I’ll cross my fingers on this one. I don’t like to put all my eggs in one basket, but if they bring down Feeney with vote fraud, bringing down Bush and DeLay would be a mere formality.
I hope I don’t have to repeat myself, but if we don’t secure computerized voting machines, none of this shit whatsoever matters, becaue we can’t vote out the Republicans. Let’s prove computerized voter fraud, once and for all. For Christ’s sake, even that conservative guy Hitchens wrote an article in Vanity Fair claiming that it’s obvious there was computerized voter fraud and supression in Ohio. At least, I can add Hitchens as one of the few credible conservatives I have no beef with, just a difference in philosophy. Difference in philosophy is acceptable, stealing our #1 right in this country, while starting wars in other countries promoting democracy, is UNACCEPTABLE!!! And it should be unacceptable to all United States citizens, regardless of party affiliation.
I hear you Dan, loud and clear. The problem is that the masses are still asleep on this issue. Either they don’t know or they generally don’t care. The voting machines won’t disappear until we have the proof and the perpetrators. It’s as though the car is missing, but nobody will say it was stolen until the thief is found with the car. Maybe the FBI are working with Henry Nee on this issue, maybe not. The MSM media have their own agenda and they won’t touch the story. So far, we have a suspect. Probably the BIG suspect, thanks to Brad and Clint. Clint showed us the door. Henry might be the one to open it up (depending on what the FBI is doing).
Horkus #1,
What an incredible, fantastic, dream come true, if this is, indeed, true! I’ve always thought that the end was going to come from within. A lot of people are severely PISSED in this government.
I do agree that that we need the proof of fraud. And it seems to me more shit was dropped than we know leading to these perpetrators.
BTW, Brad. Looks like you’ve made some design changes. Nice. Good color choice, as usual.
Brad asks:
"Has Henry made a secret deal with the FBI to turn state’s evidence against the Yang’s in exchange for his extraordinarily light sentence?"
It is certainly a reasonable suspicion if the premise is that Florida authorities (judges, investigators) are not compromised.
If the premise is that the authorities have enough corrupt influences acting upon them, then there is another explanation.
Off topic, but does everyone know that Americablog is driving readers crazy with the mysterious breaking story on Gannon this morning? What could it be, I wonder.
Cheryl, check Raw Story
Thanks sweetie! I was dying of curiousity.
Cheryl…….Now go back to Americablog if you dare
Umm…..yuuuuuuuuuuck!
Wow!
The sex thing is a little wild, but holy cow! How could press screeners have missed this? So much for the highly touted *moral values*. And so much for WH *security*.
I don’t know about you, but I wish Nee Jerk would drop in…