Counterintelligent: how the GOP keeps the FBI stupid.(need for reform at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, cases of espionage, implications for the Republican Party)

From: Washington Monthly | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: Marshall, Joshua Micah | Copyright information

IN MARCH, 2003, THE FBI ARRESTED A Chinese-American businesswoman and Republican fundraiser, alleging that she had passed a frighteningly broad range of American secrets to the People's Republic of China (PRC). For two decades, Katrina Leung had been a paid bureau informant, supplying information on Chinese intelligence operations in America. She'd also been sleeping with two senior FBI agents--one of whom was her so-called "handler"--for the better part of those two decades. It wa...

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