RawStory: Time: 'Steamy spy scandal' at State Dept.

[wakeme2008]

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Time_Steamy_spy_scandal_at_State_0715.html

Time: 'Steamy spy scandal' at State Dept. as Nat'l Intel czar Negroponte operation is linked to Taiwanese spying case

07/15/2006 @ 7:41 pm
Filed by Ron Brynaert

A "steamy spy scandal" at the State Department is brewing as Time Magazine links an operation by US Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte to the case involving Taiwanese agent Isabelle Cheng and Donald W. Keyser, former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.
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"Federal prosecutors say Keyser sent Taiwanese spy Isabelle Cheng, who at some point became Keyser's lover, long e-mails detailing his 'conversations with Chinese President Jiang' during Jiang's visit to President Bush's Texas ranch in 2002," according to a Time press release sent to RAW STORY. "Prosecutors say Keyser was caught lying to hide the affair and hoarding classified documents in his suburban Washington home

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[tocqueville]

1. mmm Taipei Rose... wonderful

Hollywood already buying the rights

[Wrinkle_In_Time]

2. Direct link to the Time story

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1214911,00.html

[Bryan]

3. "Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary"?

Not to have one of those "moderate independent" knee-jerk reactions to the complexity of the federal government, but even if you need a deputy to the Asst. Secretary, wouldn't one do the job? If the PDAS is assassinated, does the Secondary Deputy Assistant Secretary take over, and the Tertiary Deputy Assistant Secretary move up a slot as well?