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[–]Tiwaking 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

These two are complete idiots. Thinking they could get away with treason and trying to sell to people who like who they hate? Thats a dangerous kind of stupid.

The couple was not so bright and tried to sell the US submarine secrets to Bolsonar’s Brazil. Bolsonaro was a friend and supporter of President Donald Trump.

BLM? Brains Lack Matter

A disgraced Navy nuclear engineer and his wife facing a combined 20 years in prison for to trying to sell secrets about American nuclear-powered warships approached Brazil with the classified information, it has been revealed.

Jonathan Toebbe, 43, and his Trump-hating teacher wife, Diana, were arrested last October after prosecutors said he approached a foreign government in an attempt to provide the nation with thousands of pages of stolen classified documents about the nuclear reactors that power the U.S. submarine fleet.

The identity of the foreign power had been concealed by federal prosecutors. It was widely speculated to have been France after investigators revealed the Toebbes had contacted a friendly foreign power, rather than an adversary.

However, a senior Brazilian official and others familiar with the investigation have since confirmed Toebbe approached their government during April 2020, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.

[–]CarbonDioxideHead 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Can't imagine why they wouldn't try to sell their knowledge to the Chinese or Russians, but I suppose BLM supporters were never the sharpest tools in the shed.

[–]Chipit[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The article says why.