Alaska-based soldier gets 16 years in spy case

[steve2470]

Source: AP

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska-based military policeman will serve 16 years in prison and will be dishonorably discharged for selling military secrets to a Russian agent, who was an undercover FBI agent.

Spec. William Colton Millay of Owensboro, Ky., was sentenced Monday. A panel of eight military members recommended a 19-year sentence but that was dropped to 16 years because of a pretrial agreement.

Military prosecutors painted Millay as a white supremacist who was fed up with the Army and the United States, and was willing to sell secrets to an enemy agent, even if that would cost his fellow soldiers their lives.

Defense attorneys said Millay is emotionally stunted, was only seeking attention and is a candidate for rehabilitation.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/us-soldier-being-sentenced-espionage-case

[MrScorpio]

1. What a dumb ass…

May he rot for a long time in the pokey with his big chicken dinner.

[harmonicon]

2. I'm torn when I hear things like this.

On the one hand, it's great that we catch people who want to harm others. On the other, so many of these cases (especially the "terrorist" ones) reek of entrapment. Would these people really have done these things if it weren't for undercover government agents coercing them to do so?

... and on a ... third hand, I guess... I really don't see why we should have such things as government or military secrets, apart from the most up to date information when in an ongoing war.

[Ash_F]

3. Oldest trick in the 'law enforcement' book.

Manipulate the malleable. Lots of scholarly work has been invested into how best to bend the dumb to your will.

The rubes never had a chance.

[dballance]

4. No entrapment in this case

Seems clear from the linked article he actively initiated the contact. Not at all like in the cases where the FBI has snared rubes who were passively involved, may have just been spewing stuff and then got caught up by being manipulated.

[RedCloud]

5. Will they go after the bomb/arms sellers ever?

Too much $ involved?

[bushisanidiot]

6. Good! Another right wing/white supremacist off the street!

lock the idiot up!