Spy in the White House!

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=1187030&page=1

Oct. 5, 2005 — Both the FBI and CIA are calling it the first case of espionage in the White House in modern history.

Officials tell ABC News the alleged spy worked undetected at the White House for almost three years. Leandro Aragoncillo, 46, was a U.S. Marine most recently assigned to the staff of Vice President Dick Cheney.



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"I don't know of a case where the vetting broke down before and resulted in a spy being in the White House," said Richard Clarke, a former White House advisor who is now an ABC News consultant.

Federal investigators say Aragoncillo, a naturalized citizen from the Philippines, used his top secret clearance to steal classified intelligence documents from White House computers.

http://www.dss.mil/

And do they have an Office of Inspector General ? Maybe if Congress doesn't act they can at least request in camera hearings and get to the bottom of this stuff. Right ?

http://www.newsflash.org/2004/02/hl/hl102815.htm
EX-LACSON AIDE NABBED IN U.S. FOR ESPIONAGE

WASHINGTON, September 14, 2005 (STAR) By Jose Katigbak, STAR Washington bureau - Cashiered police Senior Superintendent Michael Ray "Ninoy" Aquino, wanted for murder in the Philippines, has been arrested in New Jersey on charges of espionage.

The Philippines does not have an extradition request for Aquino, said Michael Drewniak, a spokesman for the US Attorney’s Office.

Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrested Aquino, an aide of Sen. Panfilo Lacson when he was Philippine National Police chief, along with Filipino-American Leandro Aragoncillo, an FBI intelligence analyst and former US Marine, for allegedly stealing "highly classified" material stored in computers at an FBI office.

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=1187030&page=1

Oct. 5, 2005 — Both the FBI and CIA are calling it the first case of espionage in the White House in modern history.

Officials tell ABC News the alleged spy worked undetected at the White House for almost three years. Leandro Aragoncillo, 46, was a U.S. Marine most recently assigned to the staff of Vice President Dick Cheney

Feel safer now? :sarcasm: