Report: Marine gave secret files to police

[unhappycamper]

Report: Marine gave secret files to police
The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Oct 12, 2007 22:26:45 EDT

SAN DIEGO — Federal authorities are investigating claims by a Marine that he gave stolen top-secret anti-terrorism files to two Los Angeles law enforcement officials.

The investigation by the FBI and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service follows testimony by Gunnery Sgt. Gary Maziarz, who said during a court-martial that he passed classified documents to several people, including a Los Angeles Police officer and a sheriff’s detective, according to published newspaper reports.

The testimony by Maziarz, first reported by the San Diego Union-Tribune, came in July during his court-martial on charges of theft and mishandling classified documents while he was a Marine intelligence analyst. He later plead guilty to mishandling more than 100 classified documents and passing them to at least four people.

Maziarz, 37, said he acted out of patriotism when he delivered the papers to at least four other accomplices, including the two law enforcement officials who worked with anti-terrorism units at the Los Angeles County police and sheriff’s departments, the newspaper reported.

Now investigators believe Maziarz was passing secret files from Camp Pendleton and the U.S. Northern Command, which tracks domestic terrorism activity, as far back as the 1990s, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Maziarz testified that he regularly handed documents to L.A. County Sheriff’s Det. Larry Richards, a department counterterrorism specialist and retired Marine reserve colonel, and LAPD Officer David Litaker, the Times said.


Rest of article at: http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2007/10/ap_maziarz_files_071012/



uhc comment: I have to wonder why a Gunnery Sargent feels so strongly about an issue that he's willing to risk his career.

[Didereaux]

1. the page disappeared from marinecorpstimes n/t

[bananas]

5. No - that's a bug with the DU software mangling some urls

If there is a "/" at the end of a url, the DU software puts a space in front of the "/".
Most websites will put the "/" back in if it's needed, but some don't.
You can paste the url into your browser and type in the "/" at the end and it will work.

[Didereaux]

2. another link Orange County Times

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CA_MARINE_STOLEN_FILES_CAOL-?SITE=CAANR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

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[unhappycamper]

3. Interesting. Thanks for the link. n/t

[TheDoorbellRang]

4. Looks like he got a plea bargain

Less jail time if he told who else he had given these to and if he didn't talk to the media. BUT he was giving anti-terrorist info to the ex-military police friend in the civilian anti-terrorism police department for no financial gain. Be interesting to see more details on this, but looks like no one is going to be able to say more to the press.