Charges Against Alleged Chinese Spies to Become More Serious
Written by commonsensejournal on May 9th, 2006Three alleged Chinese spies accused of trying to smuggle a disc containing highly-sensitive data from a computer owned by Paragon, “a US military contractor developing secret stealth technology for US warships” and the Chinese-born engineer’s Chi Mak’s employer, are getting more serious charges:
US prosecutors warned they plan to seek harsher charges against an engineer and two kin accused of plotting to steal sensitive US Navy warship technology and trying to smuggle it to China.
The plans to beef up charges against Chinese-born engineer Chi Mak, 65, his wife, Rebecca Chiu Lai-wah, 62; and Mak’s brother, former television director Mak Tai-wing, 56, came at a pre-trial hearing in Los Angeles.
Assistant US Attorney Greg Staples confirmed to US District Judge Cormac Carney that prosecutors intend to upgrade the charges from the current counts of acting as agents for the Beijing government without being registered to do so, a much lesser charge than espionage.
Good. It would be ridiculous to just charge them with “acting as agents” instead of what they were realling doing if found guilty: spying for another country. If they are guilty of trying to send the Chinese our secret stealth technology, then they should go away to jail for the rest of their lives. China is trying to become a super power by having many spies over here, AND they’re pretty crazy.
