Spy in Cheney's Office: Month Old Story Breaks Today
How's this for an attention deflector?
Both the FBI and CIA are calling it the first case of espionage in the White House in modern history. Officials tell ABC News the alleged spy worked undetected at the White House for almost three years. Leandro Aragoncillo, 46, was a U.S. Marine most recently assigned to the staff of Vice President Dick Cheney.
Aragoncillo was caught last year, arrested a month ago and began cooperating. Why break the story today? Did he steal secrets and give them to the Russians? Not quite.
Officials say the classified material, which Aragoncillo stole from the vice president's office, included damaging dossiers on the president of the Philippines. He then passed those on to opposition politicians planning a coup in the Pacific nation.
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