How Anti-Trump Hatred Made This Man Betray His Country

An American intelligence officer who spied for Communist China admitted that his hatred of Trump pushed him to betray his country. The Free Beacon reports:

A former Defense Intelligence Agency officer who spied for China worked secretly as a Beijing agent for five years and revealed in an intercepted phone call he was motivated in part by hatred for President Trump.

Ron Rockwell Hansen, a DIA operations officer until 2006, was arrested June 5 and pleaded guilty on Friday in Utah to attempting to sell national defense secrets to China. He faces 15 years in prison under a plea deal. Sentencing is set for Sept. 24.

Court documents in the case reveal Hansen was motivated by both money and an affinity for China. In seeking to recruit a DIA coworker as a fellow Chinese spy, he voiced fears that Trump would start a war and said that was a reason to cooperate secretly with several Chinese intelligence agencies or branches in providing information and trying to penetrate U.S. defense and intelligence agencies to obtain secrets.

Hansen admitted in the plea agreement he met frequently with Chinese intelligence agents beginning in early 2014.

The federal government needs to do a better job of counterintelligence against deep state operatives who would be willing to sell their country out for political reasons.

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