Soldier Arrested on Espionage Charges
Fort Leavenworth
Fort Bliss soldier charged with espionage for attempted secrets leak
By Todd South
A 22-year-old soldier stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas, was arrested Wednesday on espionage charges.
Spc. Taylor Adam Lee was arrested in El Paso, Texas, on criminal charges of attempted transmission of national defense information to a foreign adversary and attempted export of controlled technical data without a license.
Lee holds a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance, according to a justice department release. From May to the time of his arrest, Lee sought to establish his U.S. Army credentials and send defense information to Russia’s Ministry of Defense.
In June, Lee allegedly transmitted export-controlled technical data on the M1A2 Abrams tank online and offered assistance to the Russian Federation, stating, “the USA is not happy with me for trying to expose their weaknesses. At this point I’d even volunteer to assist the Russian federation when I’m there in any way.”
In a July in-person meeting with a person Lee believed to be a Russian government representative, he allegedly passed an SD card to the individual. Lee then provided a detailed overview of the documents and information on the SD card, including documents and information on the M1A2 Abrams, another armored fighting vehicle used by the U.S. military for combat operations.
Several of the documents contained controlled technical data that Lee did not have the authorization to provide. Other documents on the SD card were marked as Controlled Unclassified Information and featured banner warnings and dissemination controls.
Throughout the meeting, Lee said the information on the SD card was sensitive and likely classified.
All this for contractor data and FOUO docs the Russians doubtless already had. I understand Leavenworth is pretty miserable this time of year. Make that EVERY time of year. Thanks to a Usual Suspect for the head’s up.
Category: Army, The Stupid is Strong, Usual Suspects
Dumbass.
Traitorous dumbass
I think we should have a televised public execution, after a court-martial.
That may stop this shit Tout Suite.
Or not, but at least it may make someone else think twice.
i could have told them the combat usefulness of a first generation HUMMV. It was about 12 minutes from my mechanical view. This guy needs a last cigarette and a blind fold.
As long as he does not disclose the recipe for the Omelette MRE.
No. That recipe needs to be locked away in Al Capone’s vault till the end of time.
Jilrado Revera had Capones vault opened up with all the news there and the door opened with zip inside back in the early 70’s if I remember..
Or Ham and Lima Beans in a c-rat can.
I bet those are still safe to eat. I was gonna say edible, but that might be pushing it.
Dehydrated pork patties and the chicken Elvis from the 1st gen MRE’s were a crime against nature and nature’s God.
You know, if you can find a dehydrated pork patty today the hog that was slaughtered to make it died more than 40 years ago.
The omelette MRE is one of our most dangerous weapons, right behind the combat spatula and nuclear powered can opener.
The 1LT, on a dare, tried to eat an entire omelet MRE without taking a sip of anything to drink. He couldn’t do it. Since he was a good man and true, with common sense and leadership abilities they don’t teach at knife and fork school, we E-types told him we didn’t think less of him.
Is that pre-consumption or post consumption? The two are practically identical and I can’t tell them apart.
Looks like a burrito from the “roach coach” that used to come to Camp Pendleton.
At that young age, he was thinking with the wrong head.
Have tanks ever been used in the execution of capital offenses? I know, I know it’ll be a pain in the ass to clean the tank treads of blood and guts, but still.
Possibly in North Korea.
I looked it up. ISIS does it too, when the shit they stole/were gifted isn’t breaking down.
As an ‘old’ dinosaur tanker (M60A1/A3) the use of the travel lock and tow pintle could be used to good effect.
I’m not say’n; I’m just say’n
Hey, Taylor, tell them that you “wiped it with cloth”! You’ll be good to go!
It’s too bad he didn’t succeed in escaping to Russia. They would have shipped his ass straight to the front in the Ukraine and used him as part of a human wave attack.
When I was stationed at Creech (Indian Springs) I had to keep an Airman in my office and charge her with UCMJ violations because her boyfriend was offering info to China. True Story.
Given the cost of endless appeals on a death sentence, it might be cheaper to give him life in Leavenworth without parole with a DD, and by the time he passes away, he’ll die forgotten and then be buried in a grave unmarked except for a number.
What a Fuk-Tard