Pentagon Linguist Charged with Exposing U.S. Spies to Hezbollah

National Review ^ | March 4, 2020 | ZACHARY EVANS

[lowbridge]

A contractor for the Pentagon has been charged with providing classified U.S. intelligence to a Lebanese national connected with terrorist group Hezbollah, the Justice Department announced on Wednesday.

The department alleges Mariam Taha Thompson, 61, began transmitting the classified intelligence around December 30, when Iraqi militiamen stormed the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. Thompson is a linguist who at the time was working at a U.S. special forces base in Erbil in northern Iraq.

The classified “files contained classified national defense information including true names, personal identification data, background information, and photographs of the human sources, as well as operations cables detailing information the human sources provided to the United States government,” read an FBI affidavit filed in the case.

Thompson was arrested on February 27, and was due to appear in court on Wednesday. On February 19 FBI agents searched Thompson’s Erbil residence and discovered documents under her mattress with the names of three U.S. intelligence assets, as well as a warning for the target of one of those assets.

[2banana]

Caught fairly quickly.

[nwrep]

She was a cunning linguist.

[lee martell]

Was he a cunning linguist?
Those are the very worst kind!

[nwrep]

[Jeff Chandler]

So when does her book come out, and is she getting a gig on CNN?

[A strike]

Hang for treason (along with Brennan).

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Treason in a time of war and in a war zone is punishable by execution. Let’s get it on.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

How about those who are tongue-tied?

Others can do it lickety-split.

[Viking2002]

A master of many tongues.

[EagleUSA]

Yes, tall tree, strong rope....justice!

[cloudmountain]

Mariam Taha Thompson, the "Matahari" of Baghdad.
A traitor by any other name still dies by firing squad, blindfold...FIRE!

[UnwashedPeasant]

Obama can’t save her.

[piasa]

Linguist... wonder if she has any links to the translator Reality Winner who was infatuated with Iran?

[sgt_lau]

I wonder how many here will get the Deep Purple reference? And thanks for that!

[GreyHoundSailor]

They could have taken her on one more overseas mission and traded her for a few camels. Now we’ll have to keep the bitch alive in prison for decades.

[piasa]

The December 30 protests at the U.S. Embassy began after American airstrikes on Iran-backed militias in Iraq. Those airstrikes followed the killing of an American contractor by Iran-backed militias.

There's a pretty good chance information she provided to Hezbollah led to the death of that contractor.

[Paul R.]

She was arrested while back here in the US?

[Mark17]

Obama can’t save her.

He sure as heck would, if he could.

[ETCM]

Arrested at the base she worked at, in Erbil, Iraq. Brought back to DC and charged. She was spying for Lebanon and Hizballah, meaning she was really spying for Iran.

I hope she is executed.