Robert Hanssen found dead in his supermax cell - what's your take?

[ErnieMccracken]

If you aren't aweir, he was an FBI brah who sold secrets to Russia. Total cash $1.4M over a span of 20 years.

I always thought he got a bit of a raw deal, relative to what everyone else is getting away with. Basically tortured to death in supermax because he sold out America for a few bucks? Tell me who in congress isn't guilty of fukkin over Americans for a little money/power from Mr. Shekelstein? We have corporations bribing politicians to start decades long wars lol - like who cares about this guy?








Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent who was one of the most damaging spies in American history, was found dead in his prison cell Monday morning, according to the Bureau of Prisons.

Hanssen, 79, was arrested in 2001 and pleaded guilty to selling highly classified material to the Soviet Union and later Russia. He was serving a life sentence at the federal penitentiary in Florence, Colorado.

Hanssen was found unresponsive and staff immediately initiated life-saving measures, Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman Kristie Breshears said in a statement.

"Staff requested emergency medical services and life-saving efforts continued," Breshears said. "The inmate was subsequently pronounced dead by outside emergency medical personnel."

Hanssen appears to have died of natural causes, according to two sources briefed on the matter.

Three years after he was hired by the FBI, Hanssen approached the Soviets and began spying in 1979 for the KGB and its successor, the SVR. He stopped a few years later after his wife confronted him.

He resumed spying in 1985, selling thousands of classified documents that compromised human sources and counterintelligence techniques and investigations in exchange for more than $1.4 million in cash, diamonds and foreign bank deposits. Using the alias "Ramon Garcia," he passed information to the spy agencies using encrypted communications and dead drops, without ever meeting in-person with a Russian handler.

Eric O'Neill, who went undercover for the FBI during its investigation into Hanssen, told CBS News that Hanssen came from a complicated background and had troubles with his father, who wanted him to go into medicine. But Hanssen, who did go to dentistry school, wanted to be in law enforcement.

"He really wanted to catch spies. He was a James Bond fanatic, loved the movies," O'Neill said. "He could quote them chapter and verse. He wanted to be a spy. He was joining the FBI to do that — not to spy against the U.S., but to go in and hunt spies."

But he was angry when he didn't get the exact job he wanted at the FBI, and taking care of his growing family while living in New York and later the Washington, D.C., area was expensive.

"And that led him to decide that he was going to get everything he wanted — become a spy," O'Neill said.

His job in the FBI gave him unfettered access to classified information on the bureau's counterintelligence operations. His disclosures included details on U.S. nuclear war preparations and a secret eavesdropping tunnel under the Soviet embassy in Washington, D.C. He also betrayed double agents, including Soviet Gen. Dmitri Polyakov, who were later executed.

Hanssen was arrested after making a dead drop in a Virginia park in 2001 after the FBI had been secretly monitoring him for months. His identity was discovered after a Russian intelligence officer handed over a file containing a trash bag with Hanssen's fingerprints and a tape recording of his voice.

In letters to the KGB, Hanssen expressed concern that he might one day be caught, and he often checked FBI computers for any sign that it was investigating him.

"Eventually I would appreciate an escape plan. (Nothing lasts forever.)," he wrote in 1986, according to the FBI affidavit.

Hanssen never revealed his motivation for spying. But O'Neill, who wrote a book about the investigation to nab Hanssen, has some theories.

"He truly didn't respect Russia very much, at least not in his conversations with me," O'Neill said. "But he was able to use them very effectively to solve his other problems. One that he was angry at the FBI for not placing him in the position of authority and gravitas and respect that he believed he deserved. And two, he needed money. He was financially having problems and he needed money and you solve both those problems by becoming a spy."

"At some point, spying and being the top spy for the Soviet Union, while within the FBI, became the thing that made him belong to something much bigger than himself," he added. "I think that at some point, even more than the money that became what was so important to him."

Hanssen's life in prison was "absolutely horrible," O'Neill said. He spent 23 hours a day alone in a tiny cell.

[azumi121]

1.4m over 20 years? 70k a year? Less than his salary? Lmao, guess he was just doing it for the thrill? Or because he really hated America?

[ErnieMccracken]

1.4m over 20 years? 70k a year? Less than his salary? Lmao, guess he was just doing it for the thrill? Or because he really hated America?

Supposedly the market for stolen state secrets is much less lucrative than hollywood makes us believe.

I think he was handing over lists of US assets in russia, which of course resulted in a bunch of them being executed by death squads.

[Noliberals4]

Adios to this traitorous POS. Should've been given the death penalty.

[ErnieMccracken]

Adios to this traitorous POS. Should've been given the death penalty.

By that logic, aren't there hundreds of politicians who have earned the death penalty?

[Noliberals4]

By that logic, aren't there hundreds of politicians who have earned the death penalty?

Any examples?

[LargePeter]

Any examples?

Swalwell
Feinstein
Biden crime syndicate

[superfunk]

1.4m over 20 years? 70k a year? Less than his salary? Lmao, guess he was just doing it for the thrill? Or because he really hated America?

This was mostly done in the 1970s and 80s, a million was a decent chunk of coin back then.

[Thebigzub]

Norah O'Donnell would get it past the 3rd knuckle...just sayin

[tehgosu]

This was mostly done in the 1970s and 80s, a million was a decent chunk of coin back then.

judging from the article I'd say more 80s and 90s, so yeah $1.4m over the span of 20 years seems not worth it at all

[ErnieMccracken]

judging from the article I'd say more 80s and 90s, so yeah $1.4m over the span of 20 years seems not worth it at all

How much would make it worth the risk?

[SandeepDahiya0]

This was mostly done in the 1970s and 80s, a million was a decent chunk of coin back then.

Even if you inflation-adjust, it still wouldn't amount to much considering he was selling CIA's confidential info on American spies in Russia. I'm surprised they let him live till 79.

[jreacher]

The money wouldn't be worth it regardless, but the money he received wasn't taxed so it would feel like more than if he received that as a salary.

He used to let his friend watch him and his wife have sex. He also converted to Catholicism for his wife and apparently got really ate up with it.

[kengriffeyjr24]

There's a good movie about him forgot the name.

I agree op, he's no different than Bradley manning who Obama let go after a few years.

I remember when they busted this guy. All the cuckservatives were literally orgasming at the thought of executing him lol

[FoulSmell]

Should’ve been given the death penalty. So should politicians or anyone else who endangers American lives for personal profit.

[Ausaric]

by that logic, aren't there hundreds of politicians who have earned the death penalty?

Yes.

[jdforsy]

The big difference is the type of info he revealed. He named US assets which got them killed. This is much different than what was revealed by manning, Snowden, etc.

[kengriffeyjr24]

The big difference is the type of info he revealed. He named US assets which got them killed. This is much different than what was revealed by manning, Snowden, etc.

That's actually literally what manning and Snowden did. They also named assets lol

If Hansen had just waited a decade he could have claimed he was trans and gotten sympathy from the media forcing Obama to release him.


Also, I think what madoff did was way worse. But madoff got to chill in club fed playing cricket while Hansen was in a supermax with a 2 inch window

[crupiea]

I was in the military almost the entire time he was spying.

basically he put myself and all of my shipmates in peril for his greed.

not to mention getting innocent men and women killed for revealing their parts in helping us.

Ruining multiple intel operations that were designed to protect us.

he did this all from a position of trust.

Screw him, i am glad he is dead.

[GaryRidgway]

By that logic, aren't there hundreds of politicians who have earned the death penalty?

Most, if not all do

[kengriffeyjr24]

I was in the military almost the entire time he was spying.

basically he put myself and all of my shipmates in peril for his greed.

not to mention getting innocent men and women killed for revealing their parts in helping us.

Ruining multiple intel operations that were designed to protect us.

he did this all from a position of trust.

Screw him, i am glad he is dead.

Lol at thinking your navy ship was in danger. What was russia going to do...fire a missile at it and start ww3.

Unless you were cia undercover....you were not in danger.

[RollTideBrah]

Lol at thinking your navy ship was in danger. What was russia going to do...fire a missile at it and start ww3.

Unless you were cia undercover....you were not in danger.

lmao what a drama queen. these fuking tards and muh service to the zog.

israel may thank you. i do not