A U.S. sailor was dishonorably discharged and sentenced to 18 years in a military prison Thursday after being found guilty of espionage while working for the Navy in Japan.
Bryce Pedicini, a former chief petty officer fire controlman, was convicted of attempted espionage, failure to obey a general order and attempted violation of a general order through a court-martial procedure. He was assigned to the guided-missile destroyer USS Higgins in Japan when he was taken into pretrial confinement last year.
According to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Pedicini delivered classified and national defense information for a foreign government official from November 2022 to May 2023. He engaged with the foreign official “under the guise of writing research papers,” it said. The Navy described that as a tactic U.S. adversaries increasingly use to obtain both classified and unclassified document.
He engaged with the foreign official “under the guise of writing research papers,” it said. The Navy described that as a tactic U.S. adversaries increasingly use to obtain both classified and unclassified document.
They’ve been doing that, for decades…
It’s hard to get someone to give up that info knowing what’s going on.
But you butter someone up about how they’re a subject matter expert and how smart they are…
And people can get talked into giving up a bunch of benign info that has a couple pieces of important stuff mixed in.
Once that method stops working, there’s a chance the other country will “come clean” and say what the person did was espionage. Then the blackmail starts.
That’s why the biggest thing they care about for clearances is: how much shame you have.
Ironically someone who really cares about other’s perception of them are going to be the ones roped into this. But if you immediately turn it in as soon as it hits that point, yeah, you fucked up. But chances are even classified shit you already disclosed was already known.
The juicy stuff needs that threat of Leavenworth if you don’t give it up.
It’s just they’re never gonna stop blackmailing you, and the longer it goes on, the more it would suck to be caught. So the more they’ll do to avoid it. When that’s hanging over someone’s head, they stop thinking rationally.
The whole thing is designed to keep them scared shitless in the moment so they stop thinking long term.
Meanwhile trump was bowing down to dictators and sucking putins dick
I don’t understand the charge of failure to obey a general order in this context. General orders are orders for guarding posts. For the army there are three and the navy there are 11. It’s stuff like don’t quit your post without proper relief, don’t talk outside of duty based things, salute officers….things like that. None of them are about espionage as far as I’m aware.
Here’s the charge sheet. I think general orders in this context are service-wide instead of local orders.
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No. The existing UCMJ is perfectly adequate for dealing with these situations instead of resorting to barbarism like a bunch of uncivilized wretches. You don’t like it? Move to Russia.
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How about instead you get it into your head that public discourse matters? How about you stand for something instead of parroting all the psychos society already indulges too much?
There’s no reason for you to keep defending your initial unrighteous statement. Let it go.
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Grow up.