Sailor charged with espionage in laptop theft
A sailor accused of taking a Navy laptop containing classified information and peddling its contents to foreign governments is being held for possible court-martial, the military said. It just makes me sick that someone would do that and the fact that he traveled the world selling the information for eight months doesn’t say much for our security.
The charges include three counts of espionage, including a suspected March 2005 visit to Bahrain, where Weinmann tried to pass along classified information to a foreign government, the Navy said. Months later, the Navy said, Weinmann deserted his submarine, the USS Albuquerque, for more than eight months and traveled to Austria and Mexico to “communicate, deliver or transmit” the information. Weinmann used a mallet in March near Vienna to destroy the computer’s hard drive, the Navy said.
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