You gotta love how the foreign country is specifically unnamed -- another news report says it was referred to as Country X, but "It is alleged that in later communications, Doxer said his chief desire “was to help our homeland and our war against our enemies.”" Doxer is Jewish.
Firstly, it's a bit ridiculous that such lengths are taken to "anonymize" the country's name. Turns out it's not that hard to speculate, especially given the JTA article posted above.<p>What I'm really curious about is whether Country X approached the US with this information in an attempt to gain good "karma," or if the US approached Country X with an active investigation and they responded in a manner of "Oh, yeah...meant to tell you about that! Sorry!"
Wait, so this idiot was trying to sell information to the Israeli government from <i>Akamai</i>?<p>There is no information that Israel could possibly want that Akamai wouldn't be more than happy to simply hand over, I'm fairly certain. Given how many people who work at that company are Israeli citizens ...
The Jewish / Israeli connection is not made in the article. Why? I don't understand how this idiotic behavior was supposed to help the US anyway as Doxer said in <a href="http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/10/07/2741170/jewish-internet-company-employee-arrested-for-selling-secrets" rel="nofollow">http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/10/07/2741170/jewish-in...</a>
<< If convicted, Doxer faces a maximum penalty of 20 years’ imprisonment, a three-year term of supervised release, a $250,000 fine or twice the gain or loss, whichever is highest, and restitution to the victim >><p>The guys's clearly done something bad but that seems a bit excessive.
The hilarious "Burn after Reading" clearly comes to mind. I mean there are professionals and amateurs in any business, and intelligence obviously isn't an exception.
This should come as no surprise to anyone who works in the industry.<p>Keep in mind Akamai was founded by an ex-mossad Sayeret Matkal expert who "coincidently" was seated right next to the terrorists who flew Flight 11 into the WTC.<p>The US people must demand a new 9/11 investigation.