Accused spy scientist due in court; FBI says he tried to sell secrets

October 26th, 2009 Scientist pleaded guilty to overbilling NASA, DODWASHINGTON — A former government scientist accused of attempted espionage pleaded guilty to overbilling NASA and the Department of Defense more than $265,000 for contracting work, according to newly unsealed court records. The plea in January by Stewart Nozette, 52, of Chevy Chase, Md., was done in secret because Nozette was cooperating in government corruption investigations, according to court papers unsealed last week following his arrest in an FBI sting operation.

October 20th, 2009 Justice says scientist tried to share US secretsWASHINGTON — A scientist who allegedly tried to sell classified secrets to Israel had worked on the U.S. government's Star Wars missile shield program, and the Justice Department declared Tuesday that he had tried to share some of the nation's most guarded secrets.

October 20th, 2009 US scientist accused of trying to sell secretsWASHINGTON — A former colleague says a scientist who allegedly tried to sell classified secrets to Israel worked on the Reagan administration's Star Wars missile shield program. The former colleague says Stewart David Nozette was primarily a technical defense expert working on the Reagan-era effort formally named the Strategic Defense Initiative.

October 11th, 2009 BHOPAL - A case has been slapped against two senior scientists of the Defence Research and Development Establishment (DRDE), Gwalior, who were accused of attempting to use their junior colleague as a human sacrifice, police said Sunday. Shradha Sharma, wife of Sushil Kumar, a junior scientist at the DRDE, in her complaint to the police Saturday night accused two senior scientists at the DRDE of being involved in witchcraft and attempting to make a human sacrifice of her husband.

September 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The element hydrogen - a key ingredient in water - is more widespread than expected at the moon's south pole, scientists said Thursday. NASA scientists announced the first data sent back to Earth from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a satellite that will spend the next year making the most detailed maps yet of the moon's surface to prepare for man's eventual return.

September 11th, 2009 Court temporarily halts CIA secrets caseWASHINGTON — A federal appeals court has put a lawsuit against the CIA on hold temporarily, disagreeing with a lower court judge who claimed the agency was hiding behind dubious national security arguments to shield itself from potential embarrassment. The decision by a federal appeals panel on Thursday to grant an emergency stay will likely put off the questioning of a key witness in the case.

September 11th, 2009 Judge chides CIA in secrets caseWASHINGTON — A federal judge says the CIA is hiding behind dubious national security arguments to shield itself from a potentially embarrassing lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, who earlier ruled that CIA officials committed fraud to protect a former covert agent accused in the suit, has rejected an emergency request to put the case on hold while the government appeals.

September 1st, 2009 CIA: No more interrogation secrets to be disclosedWASHINGTON — The CIA says it cannot turn over more details of its interrogations of terror suspects without spilling classified government secrets. A long-secret report released last week shed new light on alleged CIA abuses.

July 4th, 2009 Details emerge on woman accused of al-Qaida tiesNEW YORK — Newly filed court records reveal evidence regarding the life of a U.S.-trained scientist accused of being an al-Qaida operative. The documents, filed in the past few days in federal court in Manhattan, contain the analysis of psychologists who have treated Aafia Siddiqui (AH'-fee-ah Sih-DEE'-key) since her arrest last summer.

June 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US is to give Pakistan $3.20 billion during 2009 for various tasks, including industrial aid and the war on terror, the country's envoy here has said. Of this, $950 million would be given as industrial aid, $700 million for the war on terror and $910 million as compensation for the losses Pakistan had faced in the war on terror, Online news agency quoted ambassador Hussain Haqqani as saying.

June 12th, 2009 KAIGA - Lokanath Mahalingam, the senior scientific officer of the state-run Kaiga atomic power plant in coastal Karnataka who is missing since Monday, had no access to sensitive documents or nuclear secrets, top officials said Friday. "There is no sensitive and strategic information with him," G.

June 10th, 2009 Couple accused of spying to appear in courtWASHINGTON — A former State Department employee and his wife, accused of spying for Cuba for three decades, are having a day in court to find out whether they will stay in jail. Retired State Department official Walter Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn, have been behind bars since they were arrested Thursday.

April 30th, 2009 Obama favors changes to state secrets doctrineWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says changes need to be made to the state secrets doctrine. Obama was questioned at a prime-time news conference Wednesday about the claim that the president has inherent and unchecked power to shield national security information from disclosure.

April 24th, 2009 WVa mother charged with trying to sell infant sonCHARLESTON, W.Va. — A West Virginia mother was in jail Friday, accused of trying to sell her 5-month-old son for $10,000 to get money for a new apartment.

February 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The release of Pakistan's leading atomic scientist who confessed to running a nuclear smuggling network would be 'extremely regrettable', the US State Department said Friday. A Pakistani court Friday ruled that Abdul Qadeer Khan should be freed after five years of house arrest for providing sensitive nuclear material and information to countries like Iran, Libya and North Korea.