Former Army Colonel Charged With Spying For Chinese

From the LVRJ: When he came to Las Vegas in 2007 to recruit Army Reserve soldiers for a unit destined for Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Ben Bishop said he wanted “folks to step back from their little world and see the bigger picture of what’s going on.”
“The country is at war,” he said....
While his duty as the unit’s executive officer wasn’t “sexy” or filled with “Rambo stuff,” the now 59-year-old Special Forces reservist switched gears when he began working as a defense contractor in Honolulu.
That’s where federal law enforcement officials say he began sharing secret plans about nuclear weapons and missile defense radars in the Pacific with his lover, a 27-year-old woman from China who was living in Hawaii on a student visa.
On March 13, FBI agents, who had been watching the couple from afar and using electronic surveillance to intercept emails and listen to their telephone calls, arrested Benjamin Pierce Bishop. He’s charged with one count of communicating national defense information to a person not entitled to receive it, and one count of unlawfully retaining national defense documents and plans.
A federal judge in Honolulu on Friday said he wants to hear more arguments before deciding whether Bishop should be released on bail while awaiting trial, and set another hearing for Monday.
Bishop’s clearance gave him access to high-level defense plans at the U.S. Pacific Command, which is tasked with providing U.S. military security for the entire Pacific region. Officials haven’t disclosed the name of the contractor employing him.
According to an affidavit from FBI Special Agent Scott Freeman, Bishop shared some of those plans with his girlfriend, identified only as “Person 1” in court papers that led to his arrest....
After they became romantically involved, Bishop told her in a Sept. 2, 2012, phone call about the “planned deployment of U.S. strategic nuclear systems.”
The affidavit stated that Person 1 “on multiple occasions” told Bishop she didn’t want him to discuss classified information with her.
“Nevertheless, Person 1 continued over time to question Bishop on matters related to the subject matter of his work. Additionally, despite Bishop’s representations to Person 1, he continued to disclose classified information to her after representing that he would not,” the affidavit reads.
Finally, on Feb. 5, she requested his help on some research. “She asked for him to advise her regarding what western nations know about the operation of a particular naval asset of the People’s Republic of China,” a subject that was outside the scope of Bishop’s regular work assignments, the affidavit reads, adding that he “acted on her request.”  http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/military/reservist-moves-las-vegas-unit-officer-espionage-suspect
Apparently, most of the main stream media has not written about this story.
Tell me again, why we are friends with Communist China?