Trade Seekrits

What happens when you openly talk to people about what your Company's doing without giving royalties to your Company?

Why, you can get slapped with espionage charges if Uncle Sugar's involved.

The Americans being charged work for The Defense Security Cooperation Agency. Now, these aren't engineers actively involved in systems design. They aren't scientists working on weapons of mass destruction for the Pentagram Pentagon.

According to Wikipedia the DSCA:

...provides financial and technical assistance, transfer of defense matériel, training and services to allies, and promotes military-to-military contacts.

...(FMS) and International Military Education and Training (IMET) are two key programs included within Security Cooperation. IMET is conducted solely on a grant basis. FMS can be conducted using cash or FMS Financing (FMF).

You can surf around my site and find all kinds of links to industry and even open .mil sites that describe in detail all kinds of space and weapons ware that I would judge should be classified. Any citizen or for that matter international denizen on the world wide web can access them. So what gives with the sudden noise and smoke about Chinese spies in the Homeland?

They were salesmen who didn't grease the right palms with a commission fee.

The D.o'D. and its Company friends are in desperate need of a new Cold War, or even a limited hot one, to get the blood boiling, and a war with China means we get to scapegoat and stiff their economy really hard.