Rogue Government Employees

FBI Employee Imprisoned For Leaking National Secrets

December 18. 2009

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller

An FBI linguist, Shamai Kedem Leibowitz, who is also the grandson of a famous scholar, has pled guilty to leaking 5 classified documents to a Washington Post blogger, regarding the NSA illegally spying on Americans. He began his employment with the FBI at the beginning of the year. 

It is wrong and unlawful for a U.S. government worker to leak classified documents to civilians, but the NSA was wrong in this case as well, for illegally spying on Americans, via misconduct expressly forbidden by the U.S. Constitution. It's the same unlawful invasiveness the FBI has engaged in as well.

I am of the belief, when rogue federal employees, such as the current FBI director, Robert S. Mueller, engage in criminal misdeeds, such as warantless wiretapping and illegally, electronically combing people's emails and then reading them, conduct that violates the Constitution and other legislative measures under the U.S. Code, they should face imprisonment.

Mueller is like a nosy, gossiping old housewife, running his trap to other members of the federal government and politicians, about matters that have nothing to do with national security, whilst forwarding email documents and phone call transcripts he illegally obtained, via unlawfully spying on Americans that committed no crime.

He will order a person be put under surveillance (wiretaps, email scanning, bank account scanning ect) without just cause, if they are a (law abiding) journalist or blogger with widely read columns or blogs influencing public opinion, an inventive scientist or doctor doing groundbreaking work or a political scientist with new ideas.

He leaks said wiretap transcripts, emails and other invasive information on you, to politicians and other government members that are his cronies. He's worst than Hoover and not above stealing data either. The Constitution doesn't make allowances for such conduct, as it is contemptible. Who do you really think you are to be breaking the law like this. People are entitled to privacy.

"Immunity shields” do not extend to government employees that criminally violate the law of the land. Some crooked federal employees, such as Robert S. Mueller, cite such criminal conduct as behavior they are allowed to engage in at their discretion, in their official capacity, which is a load of garbage not supported by any law, domestic or international.

There is no discretionary factor that allows such misconduct, as it would open the door for FBI, DOJ, NSA and CIA employees, to decide in their judgment, certain unlawful conduct allegedly undertaken in the course of their jobs is okay, when it is not – such as rape, molestation, pedophilia, murder, manslaughter, lynching, assault, voyeurism and slavery, whilst causing grievous harm to innocent members of society. When did the law ever work that way.

FBI Linguist Guilty of Leaking Classified Documents to Blog

* December 18, 2009 - An Israeli-American lawyer who worked as an FBI linguist pleaded guilty Thursday to providing an unidentified blogger with classified documents derived from U.S. communications intelligence.

Shamai Kedem Leibowitz, 39, of Silver Spring, Maryland, pleaded to one felony count of disclosing to an unauthorized party five documents that were classified “secret” that he obtained through his work with the FBI.

Leibowitz leaked the documents to the unnamed blogger in April 2009. The blogger — identified as “Recipient A in court filings — then wrote a post based on the classified documents.

“As a trusted member of the FBI ranks, Leibowitz abused the trust of the FBI and the American public by using his access to classified information for his own purposes,” said FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard A. McFeely in a press release.

The government does not allege that Leibowitz was paid for the documents. He pleaded guilty to violating a law prohibiting the unauthorized disclosure of classified information about “communication intelligence activities” — i.e., electronic spying.

Leibowitz, who holds dual citizenship, was only employed as a contract Hebrew linguist for the FBI for about three months before he leaked the documents. He worked in an FBI office in Calverton, Maryland, beginning in January 2009 and held a top secret security clearance. As such, he had access to classified documents and information relating to the communication intelligence activities of the U.S., according to the Justice Department press release...

...That information was published in April by Jeff Stein, a writer for Congressional Quarterly, on his CQ Homeland Security blog. Stein told Threat Level he never comments on sources...

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