Scientist Stewart Nozette proves smart people do stupid things (for money)

Stewart Nozette – a scientist who worked as a technical adviser for a consultant company that was wholly owned by the Israeli government – was arrested this past week in an FBI sting operation and jailed without bond on two counts of attempting to communicate, deliver and transmit classified information.

Nozette, of Chevy Chase, MD, worked as a scientist who on the US Star Wars missile shield program, the Department of Energy in the 1990s (where he held a special security clearance described in the criminal complaint against him as “equivalent to the Defense Department’s Top Secret and Critical Nuclear Weapon Design Information clearances”), and recently developed the Clementine bi-static radar experiment that is credited with discovering water on the south pole of the moon.

The Justice Department has stated Mr. Nozette was attempting to share some of the nation’s most guarded secrets to a man he believed to be an Israeli intelligence agent, “I wanna clarify something from the start. And I don’t say it very often, but um, I work for [the] Israeli intelligence Agency known here as Mossad” the man told Nozette over lunch at a Washington hotel in September.

The man was in fact, an undercover FBI agent. Mr. Nozette, whose finances had been investigated in a Inspector General’s probe, found that from 1998 to 2008, Nozette was paid about $225,000 as well as indications that he might be working for a foreign government. That, in turn, led to the FBI sting.

During the IG probe into his firm’s bank account, Nozette sent a motion to quash the subpoena into his firm, Alliance For Competitive Technology Inc, but a federal judge rejected Nozette’s motion.

In January of this year, Nozette allegedly traveled to another foreign country with two computer thumb drives and apparently did not return with them.

-- Killswitch Politick

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Inching towards chaos

As President Obama continues his public waffling on Afghanistan, the situation on the ground continues to deteriorate.

With Hamid Karzai’s alleged ballot-box stuffing, the Iranians agitating and little-to-no help from our allies, the United States finds itself in a precarious situation in what Candidate Obama called a war we must win.

The Taliban has reformed and their strategy is clearing causing gains in their direction. A mountainous and lawless country, Afghanistan has long been the ideal breeding ground for the likes of Al Qaeda and warlords, not to mention, public support of the war has been on a steady decline since the war in Iraq began devolving – well before the surge and turn around.

Mr. Obama and Gordon Brown find themselves in un-winnable positions with their respective political bases – each wishes to pull the leaders further to the left and are demanding immediate withdrawal. But both leaders know full well where that will lead: a country left to the wolves, a signal to Islamo-fascists that American and Brittan don’t have the will to see their way through, and an effective surrender to Iranian interloping.

All of which is unacceptable should the two countries wish to remain true to their word and actions. If Messers. Obama and Brown do not head the call of the generals on the ground; the war is all-but-lost and so to will be the standing of their commanders-in-chief.

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