Posted on 06/23/2021 9:55:13 AM PDT by weston
They are the arsonists who set the fire & then act like the hero by calling the fire department.
Democrat warns Catholic Church it may be stripped of tax-exempt status if politicians denied communion
Democrats think the constitution, laws of the land, organization rules and canon law are an ala-carte menu
from which they can pick and choose which items apply to them and which ones they can ignore.
Thanks for the new thread. We have a really critical fight, ahead. The MSM is letting the Left and Xiden spew unscathed.
Insane!
Thank you. I live in Eastern PA, and we have the largest Tea Party in the country. We’re happy to mingle with our fellow Trumpers and work on getting local people elected to office. We want Gov Wolf impeached.
Have you seen this? I tend to believe that the first story, that he defected, is true. What do you think? I don’t believe anyone coming from China or the Biden administration, but then I repeat myself.
Feds Shoot Down Rumor China’s Missing Spymaster Defected to U.S.
SpyTalk had sought comment from the State Department last week when preparing a story on mounting rumors that Dong Jingwei, vice minister of the Ministry of State Security, China’s principle espionage and internal security agency, had defected in February via Hong Kong along with his daughter Dong Yang. The department did not respond.
But on Tuesday a U.S. official reached out to say reports of Dong’s defection were not true. Speaking strictly on terms of anonymity, the official declined to elaborate further, including on Dong’s present whereabouts, only hinting that the counterspy remains in China.
“We can’t confirm or deny where he is exactly,” the official said. Asked why the Biden administration was reaching out to knock down rumors of a high level defection—normally an ultra-sensitive issue—the official said, “that’s more of a policy question”and referred SpyTalk to the White House. A spokesperson for the National Security Council did not respond to a request for comment.
Former Pentagon, State Department and CIA China expert Nicholas Eftimiades, author of Chinese Espionage: Operations and Tactics, told SpyTalk the official’s initiative was likely coordinated at the highest levels of the Biden administration. “I’m stunned that they did that,” considering the sensitivity of the subject, he said. He called the response definitive, a closed issue: “game, set, match.”
China’s officially sanctioned media reported last Friday that Dong had appeared at a MSS seminar on the mainland where he “urged the country’s intelligence officers” to crack down on enemy spies, according to an account in Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post. But the reports did not say where the seminar took place, nor did they include photos or video of Dong’s supposed appearance, further raising suspicions about his status. Dong’s identity is not secret: In 2018, Beijing released a photo of him and other members of a Chinese delegation attending Sino-German security talks.
Some longtime observers of U.S.-China relations think that the Biden administration’s willingness to address such a normally highly secretive issue was motivated by two issues: One, “to excise an unnecessary additional irritant in the still downward-spiraling bilateral relationship” between the U.S. and China, as Robert A. Manning, a former top Asia specialist in both Republican and and Democratic administrations for more than 30 years, put it. A second, and possibly equal motive: to beat back a Republican campaign to deflect blame for the coronavirus pandemic in America from Donald Trump to China’s Wuhan Virology Lab and, by extension, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who has been critical of the former president’s response to the disease.
The motivation “may be domestic,” said a leading China watcher—to head off Republican accusations that the Biden administration is “hiding a defector who has info on the lab leak or [other] embarrassing stuff.”
Reports of Dong’s defection originated in conservative circles here and abroad that have been critical of the scientific consensus that the covid-19 pandemic was transmitted from animals in Wuhan’s “wet market.”
On June 4, former Fox News reporter Adam Housley tweeted that “US intelligence has a Chinese defector with Wuhan info. AND China is trying to produce variants that suggest it came from bats to cover up that coronavirus originally came from a lab.”
Housley’s report was amplified by the right-wing Red State news and opinion site, which alleged that “a person believed to be among the highest-ranking defectors ever to the United States from the People’s Republic of China has been working with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) for months.” Citing anonymous sources “inside the intelligence community,” it alleged “the defector has direct knowledge of special weapons programs in China, including bioweapons programs,” and that the alleged information had created “a sudden crisis of confidence in Dr. Anthony Fauci.”
The rumors were given more gravity on June 16 when Dr. Han Lianchao, a former Chinese foreign ministry official who defected after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, alleged in a tweet that during high level Sino-American talks in Alaska in March, China’s foreign minister Wang Yi and Communist Party foreign affairs boss Yang Jiechi demanded that the Americans return Dong and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken refused.
Asked for comment on Tuesday, Han was unbowed.
“That’s all good,” he said of the U.S. denial of the defection, “but it’ll be more assuring if Dong’s latest photos or videos can be shown.”
Ah yes, The Daily Beast, that bastion of truth and honor, NOT!
A left wing shill that I find hard to believe.
I tend to believe the 1st story too.
And certain people have a whole lot to be worried about if this Chinese spy has the goods.
Alex Salvi
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FLOTUS is mad at VP Harris for labeling Pres. Biden as a racist in the primary.
It’s a reason Harris was tasked with the no-win situation at the border and sent to Central America during the Europe trip.
The Harris “I haven’t been to Europe” remark didn’t come out of nowhere.
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lmao
Easy to be upset with Mark Milley, but he’s nothing but an obedient dog barking what his masters told him to do
I am reluctant to assign him the dignity of actual agency
A simple minded cow caught up in forces much greater than he understands
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Mark Milley, Chairman of the JCS, says the military reads Critical Race Theory because they need to understand the “white rage” that led to January 6.
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When Milley says he’s read Mao and Karl Marx he means he’s looked at the covers of their books
He has no personal understanding of what he is talking about, his answer was like something out of a college freshman essay
In a democracy, power is given not taken.
But it is still power.
Love, compassion, caring have no use for it. But it is fuel for greed, hostility, jealousy...
All power corrupts.
Take care which powers you allow a democracy to wield.— John McAfee (@officialmcafee) June 18, 2021
JUST IN - John McAfee found dead in prison cell after Spanish court approved the extradition to the United States.— Disclose.tv 🚨 (@disclosetv) June 23, 2021
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John McAfee found dead in prison cell after Spanish high court allows extradition, according to Spanish newspaper El Mundo
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McAfee created the security software that bears his name.
The Associated Press
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BREAKING: An Indiana woman becomes the first defendant sentenced for the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Anna Morgan Lloyd pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years of probation, 120 hours of community service and ordered to pay $500 in restitution.
Thank you.
Watch: Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, just now on Critical Race Theory, ‘Wokeness’ & Jan. 6. “I’ve read Karl Marx. I’ve read Lenin. That doesn’t make me a communist. So what is wrong with understanding...the country which we are here to defend?” pic.twitter.com/KsRtOoWN0w— James LaPorta (@JimLaPorta) June 23, 2021
And yet Marx and Lenin aren't on the Milley's recommended reading list. Because the military isn't generally in the business of presenting despicable anti-American views to its members as worthy of consideration. https://t.co/uKewTZCBUT— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) June 23, 2021
Pretending that the military reading list is merely a debate and consideration club is silly. It isn't. And make no mistake: the list is heavily slanted toward Left-wing politics.
Other books on the Navy list include "Sexual Minorities and Politics," by Jason Pierceson, which casts any opposition to LGBT agenda items as grounded in animus, and promotes Foucault's attempted obliteration of the private/public distinction.
Michelle Alexander's "New Jim Crow" appears alongside Kendi on the reading list; that book argues that "law and order" is merely code for racism, and that disproportionate incarceration of racial minorities is purely the result of systemic discrimination rather than crime.
GMTA!!!
LOL
I think McAfee was a bit paranoid, he said the government was out to get him so he fled.
Maybe he was right to be paranoid.
Getting subtle messages from U.S. officials saying, in effect: "We're coming for you McAfee! We're going to kill yourself". I got a tattoo today just in case. If I suicide myself, I didn't. I was whackd. Check my right arm.$WHACKD available only on https://t.co/HdSEYi9krq:) pic.twitter.com/rJ0Vi2Hpjj— John McAfee (@officialmcafee) November 30, 2019
Hadn’t seen it, but I can’t say I’m surprised a story was put out saying it wasn’t true. You’d think China would keep up with their top people better. I know Chinese have defected before, but I can only recall it happening with a cover story of traveling to the US, then defecting once they’re here. Seems I recall some Chinese athletes coming to the US and defecting? Or maybe that was Russian...
I’m not sure what to make of it. If he’s still in China, it should be an easy thing to parade him out as proof (unless he’s assumed room temperature). If he’s in the US, I could see where they WOULDN’T want to parade him out, to keep him safe. My understanding is DNI is above the FBI/CIA/etc. so not sure that any entity other than DNI can vouch for the validity of the story.
I’m kinda leaning towards truth. But I’m not putting both feet on the truth side just yet!
Thanks for the new thread. Glad to be on the Trump Train.
Supposedly he has names of spies in gov't, names of lawmakers compromised by CCP & information on the Wuhan virus that probably proves Trump correct, so I'm sure the gov't doesn't want us to know the truth. Of course they are trying to deny his existence.
We will probably never know the truth that this guy has. I wouldn't doubt if he has an "accident" in the near future.
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