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Why the US Sent a C-17 to a Chinese Air Show Despite Concerns Inside the Pentagon
The D Brief [ at Defense One ] ^ | November 11, 2014 | Gordon Lubold and Marcus Weisgerber

Posted on 11/12/2014 7:12:43 AM PST by huldah1776

The U.S. military sent a giant C-17 cargo plane to an air show in China this week as a way to strengthen its relationship with the People’s Liberation Army there, despite fears among security and policy experts that doing so puts American technology secrets in jeopardy and also risks angering an important Asia ally.

The decision to send a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III to the China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition at the Zhuhai Jinwan airport starting Tuesday is fraught for a number of reasons, defense and security officials told Defense One, noting that President Barack Obama’s arrival in the region this week to help bolster ties with Beijing points up how political factors may have outweighed security, optical and even legal concerns.

The reasons against sending the plane seemed to policy and security officials to have been enumerable. The American military jet will be participating in the air show with just two other foreign militaries in addition to China: the United Arab Emirates and Russia - with which the U.S. military severed ties after Russia’s annexation of Crimea this spring .

In the meantime, to some, the U.S. military’s participation in the air show is a mark of hypocrisy: Last week, the U.S. denied ally South Korea the ability to demonstrate a Korean jet at the same air show because it possesses U.S. technology and U.S. security officials said demonstrating that plane would be in violation of international agreements.

And at a cost of at least $350,000 to attend the air show, some officials inside the U.S. government raised questions about why the C-17 jet, along with about 15 U.S. Air Force personnel, should participate at all.

“It was just bad idea after bad idea,” said one government official.

(Excerpt) Read more at defenseone.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Government; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: c17; china; darkhotel; military; traitor
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Do copyright laws prevent me from posting the whole content of someone else's blog?

Anyway, this is a 2-for-1. the US traitor regime sends our equipment over to China, why??? Not only to have the plane strip searched but to give the enemy access to all the information on those sent along with it.

"DarkHotel: A Sophisticated New Hacking Attack Targets High-Profile Hotel Guests" mostly in Asia. The hackers plant the virus days before arrival, hack, then remove the virus. That is why it is so sophisticated. Probably got it from a traitor who sold the idea to the Chinese,

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/darkhotel-malware/

1 posted on 11/12/2014 7:12:43 AM PST by huldah1776
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To: huldah1776
It was just bad idea after bad idea." said one government official

In other words: SOP for 0bammy.

3 posted on 11/12/2014 7:19:14 AM PST by Michael.SF. (It takes a gun to feed a village.)
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To: huldah1776
Despite the treason, the undocumented First Indonesian Moslem by Fraud
received NO respect.
APEC Humiliation of the undocumented One, sequestered From the waving Alphas into the passive, meek Wives' Club.


4 posted on 11/12/2014 7:22:58 AM PST by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: huldah1776

Well, hell, they’ve given out Apache attack helicopters to Egypt and M-1 Abrams tanks also to Egypt and Iraq. Many of these tanks were captured by ISIS and are now being used against our “allies” along with Javelin anti-tank missiles and other high-tech hardware.

Do you think they’ll care much about showing off a cargo plane?


5 posted on 11/12/2014 7:24:40 AM PST by cll (Serviam!)
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To: F15Eagle

And ours will be infected full of spyware.


6 posted on 11/12/2014 7:25:28 AM PST by Scrambler Bob (/s /s /s /s /s, my replies are "liberally" sprinkled with them behind every word and letter.!)
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To: huldah1776

Why?

Just why?


7 posted on 11/12/2014 7:26:30 AM PST by rdcbn
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To: huldah1776

Obama will also bring a list of Government User names and Passwords for his employers the Chinese Leaders


8 posted on 11/12/2014 7:26:45 AM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: rdcbn
Why you ask?

EVERYTHING obama does either:

a) Weakens America/Americans
b) Distances America's allies
c) Strengthens America's enemies
d) Serves Islam
e) Harms Israel
Or some combination of the above.
I have yet to have anyone raise a single substantive counter example in several years of posting this.
9 posted on 11/12/2014 7:29:27 AM PST by null and void (If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.)
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To: huldah1776

EVERYTHING about Obama is all about show, nothing is about substance.


10 posted on 11/12/2014 7:30:21 AM PST by Wuli
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To: huldah1776

Did each tour come with a souvenir spec sheet?


11 posted on 11/12/2014 7:43:47 AM PST by jimfree (In November 2016 my 14 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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To: F15Eagle

Bingo.


12 posted on 11/12/2014 7:46:16 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: All

Real reason: China and other enemies, foreign and domestic, own my USG.


13 posted on 11/12/2014 7:48:56 AM PST by veracious
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To: huldah1776

I don’t see this as a big deal at all.
How many of the folks working in our defense industry are Chinese nationals?

I can’t imagine there is any control on the flow of info these days. With the ability to so easily steal massive amounts of digital info.


14 posted on 11/12/2014 7:49:43 AM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, Convict, Deport)
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To: null and void
Obama, a dedicated fascist-marxist, places faults in arrangements ... upon race.

If a deal goes bad or something is wrong in Obama's view, the problem is that the deal involved not-Obama's-racial-preference.

Obama's (and his followers') foreign policy is: Zimbabwe (or Cuba, or Venezuela)

Obama's (and his followers') domestic policy is: Detroit

Obama (and his followers) notion of fixing and/or arranging things, is to remove not-Obama's-racial-preferences from the equation.

His comments to, say, Red China, are:

"There seems to have been a misunderstanding and/or miscommunication because of 'racial overtones' that, if you look back on the deal, were coming from 'old, angry, white Americans.' That is the basis of America's stance, but with microphone and pen, I am ordering that to be classified as anti-government, and 'scary.' Let us start anew, and here, I have Americans' rights, their sovereignty, whatever it takes to make a *new deal.*"

"I have taken control of our mainstream media who are now ridiculing the tendencies of some Americans (particularly the old, angry white men) to remain free from and non-compliant of my executive outreach. As proof of our new state-control over the media, I offer to you, that 'EBOLA' has hardly been mentioned in our news; and, you can barely find mention of our 'EBOLA Czar.'"

Obama has become a dictator. The GOPe fear him. His Palace Media fear him. And, hundreds of thousands of his cultural revolutionary storm troopers are tearing down the construction of our country and Constitution.

Because of the gross ego of lawyers and judges who are as arrogant as the MIT-cloistered prof. whose recently released comments revealed his deceipt, dishonesty, and corruption - that wrote ObamaCare.

15 posted on 11/12/2014 8:00:42 AM PST by First_Salute (May God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
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To: F15Eagle

Hey, we might be able to buy one at Sam’s, or online, through abracadabra, or alibaba, or whatever it’s called. Don’t they sell them on Amazon? Just have to pay sales taxes now.


16 posted on 11/12/2014 8:22:26 AM PST by Prospero (Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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To: null and void
The principle of Original Intent is being replaced by the precedents of Obama Intent.

Obama and his fascist-marxist movement, are relying upon effectively displacing our country and our Constitution, with a government by judiciary.

He and they are relying upon the lack of integrity of lawyers and judges, and the lack of limits on their authority, on their power, and their stays in offices.

Our state legislatures need to appoint 2 delegates from each of at least 3/4 ths of the states, to attend a special convention to re-open the Continental Congress. This special convention should meet and last for two weeks, arranging for the re-opening of the Continental Congress.

Said state legislatures must then authorize the Continental Congress to determine what amendments of federal goverment operations and elected and other government office replacements and/or adjustments are to take place ... and then, so order.

No doubt, the fascist-marxist and various liberals of the "Beltway" establishment will object, and that includes lawyers and judges who imagine themselves about our country and above our Constitution.

Well, it is then up to said states and the Continental Congress to restore our country and our Constitution.

17 posted on 11/12/2014 8:26:33 AM PST by First_Salute (May God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
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To: null and void
"lawyers and judges who imagine themselves about our country and above our Constitution"

should be:

"lawyers and judges who imagine themselves above our country and above our Constitution ... and above our Creator"

"Creator" - borrowing from our Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

18 posted on 11/12/2014 8:32:05 AM PST by First_Salute (May God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
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To: F15Eagle
There will be a new Chinese C-17 flying in a few years.....

How about now? The hacked their way onto the runway. The primary difference is theirs has a humpback joint where the wings attach.


19 posted on 11/12/2014 10:05:27 AM PST by B4Ranch ( Refuse to live in fear of life or death.)
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