Re:Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to elect...
by toss1 on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @03:01PM
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Indeed!
From fiction and movies, one would think that selling the country's secrets to foreign governments would lead to wealth enough to set you up for life on a private island. Yet when the accounts of the treachery emerge at trial, it's always troves of highly classified documents for a few thousand dollars here or there, maybe a few $100k over decades of espionage.
It still just stuns me every time I read how in reality, while honest people would die before selling out their country, some people will sell out everyone so cheaply.
From fiction and movies, one would think that selling the country's secrets to foreign governments would lead to wealth enough to set you up for life on a private island. Yet when the accounts of the treachery emerge at trial, it's always troves of highly classified documents for a few thousand dollars here or there, maybe a few $100k over decades of espionage.
It still just stuns me every time I read how in reality, while honest people would die before selling out their country, some people will sell out everyone so cheaply.