Whelan was not dishonorably discharged - he received a bad conduct discharge, which is a different thing and not as serious.
http://lawforveterans.org/work/84-discharge-and-retirement/497-military-discharge
I'm not sure how he got the job he had based on his military record, but a dishonorable discharge would have probably disqualified him completely.
"He is no saint and a probably spy, but regardless, we didn't defect him out of the country, and still an American, good or bad."
That sentence makes no sense - what are you trying to say? How do we "defect" people out of our country?
The US is stating that he is not a spy. As to how he got that USB drive? Maybe someone handed it to him. Maybe someone slipped it in his pocket. Maybe it never actually existed. This is Russia we're talking about, where people fall out of windows at an alarming rate and investigations (if they happen) find nothing suspicious about it. Let's just say that their rules of evidence are nothing like ours, and you can't look at their justice system and expect the same outcomes as ours.. |
