Posted on 04/23/2015 5:14:17 AM PDT by markomalley
Few Americans could fathom the notion that the United States is so indebted to China that one of Beijing’s spies could get away with espionage – especially with an White House in love with espionage prosecutions. But that might be the only reasonable explanation for the Obama administration’s decision to pass on prosecuting a State Department contractor who was allegedly paid thousands of dollars to someone believed to be a Chinese agent seeking information on Americans.
According to Fox News, a November 2014 FBI affidavit that was filed in U.S. district court in Maryland indicates that the FBI launched a probe into the matter but that the Justice Department eventually decided not to prosecute.
The affidavit shows that the FBI investigated the contractor after she admitted she was in contact with individuals she believed were Chinese intelligence officers. Fox News further reported:
The affidavit from agent Timothy S. Pappa states the translator, Xiaoming Gao, was paid “thousands of dollars to provide information on U.S. persons and a U.S. government employee.”
According to the documents, she admitted these meetings took place in hotel rooms in China for years, where she reported on her “social contacts” in the U.S. to an individual who went by the name of “Teacher Zhao.”
The affidavit, which was quite detailed, even says that translator lived briefly “for free” with a State Department employee who held a top-secret clearance and at the time designed high-security embassies, including the U.S. compound in Islamabad, Pakistan (which is a client state of China’s).
The State Department employee was not named in the affidavit, Fox News reported, but he initially told the FBI he had not discussed his job with Gao, only to later change that statement.
The documents also note that Gao told the FBI during interviews in 2013 that she once informed “Teacher Zhao” about travel plans regarding an American and ethnic Tibetan; that person told the FBI he wound up being interrogated by Chinese intelligence officials during a trip to Tibet and that a family member had been imprisoned.
But for some reason the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., which was overseeing the case recently declined to prosecute, thereby permitting the documents to be unsealed. The office offered no explanation or comment. Also, the FBI has said nothing more.
Fox News noted this unusual circumstance:
On its face, a former senior Justice Department official said the decision not to prosecute is perplexing, because the case was unlikely to reveal investigative sources and methods.
“It’s not clear to me, based on the court files that were unsealed, how a prosecution of this person could possibly have compromised U.S. intelligence gathering,” Thomas Dupree, former deputy assistant attorney general under the George W. Bush administration, told Fox News. “If it jeopardizes or threatens to disrupt relations with another country, so be it. That you have to draw the line somewhere, and that we need to send a message that this sort of conduct and activity simply will not be tolerated.”
In an attempt to get more details, Fox News correspondents were given the circular treatment endemic in this administration: The FBI referred any more questions about the case to the State Department, where spokeswoman Marie Harf referred reporters right back to the FBI.
It’s always a possibility that cases are dropped because of national security concerns regarding other operations that are ongoing. Trials in American are (for the most part) conducted in public and the intelligence community is understandably sensitive about keeping secret national security operations secret.
But sometimes the U.S. government makes decisions based purely on political considerations, especially when it comes to China, and here is where this unusual decision deserves more scrutiny:
— In recent days International Business Times reported that Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state (and head of the State Department), threw tech company Cisco “a lifeline” in 2009 shortly after the company had undergone a high profile Senate hearing regarding its Chinese operations. It seems Cisco had a large part in developing China’s “Great Firewall that helps China’s authoritarian regime censor information and surveil its citizens.”
In November 2009, a group of Cisco shareholders stormed the annual shareholder’s meeting demanding that the company’s technology not be used to help the Chinese government commit human rights abuses; shareholders and company executives opposed that effort. Shortly thereafter, as IBT noted:
Cisco was honored as a finalist for the State Department’s award for “outstanding corporate citizenship, innovation and democratic principles.” The next year, the company won the award. While the honors were for the company’s work in the Middle East, they gave Cisco a well-timed opportunity to change the subject and present itself as a champion of human rights.
The company’s ties to Clinton?
What Clinton did not say at the State Department award ceremonies was that Cisco had been pumping money into her family’s foundation. Though the foundation will not release an exact timeline of the contributions, records reviewed by International Business Times show that Cisco had by December 2008 donated from $500,000 to $1 million to the foundation.
— Clinton, you may know, has been under fire for her family foundation’s acceptance of foreign money, which is a problem given her status as the country’s top diplomat.
There are other potential Clinton-China ties as well. In March CBS News reported that a Chinese firm with ties to North Korea had donated heavily to the Clinton Foundation:
Rilin Enterprises- pledged $2 million in 2013 to the Clinton Foundation’s endowment. The company is a privately-held Chinese construction and trade conglomerate and run by billionaire Wang Wenliang, who is also a delegate to the Chinese parliament. Public records show the firm has spent $1.4 million since 2012, lobbying Congress and the State Department. The firm owns a strategic port along the border with North Korea and was also one of the contractors that built the Chinese embassy in Washington.
That contract is a direct tie to the Chinese government, says Jim Mann, who has written several books on China’s relationship with the U.S.
With “embassy construction, one of the most important tasks is making sure that there are no bugs there,” he said. “So you want to have the closest security and intelligence connections with and approval of the person or company that’s going to build your embassy.”
— Then there is the little-known 100,000 Strong Foundation, which was launched by Clinton at the State Department during her final weeks there. The program focuses on sending American students abroad to “study” in China, a program Clinton touted as essential to improving future relations between both countries.
“(In ways) that were unimaginable just a few years ago, young people in both China and the United States are global citizens,” Clinton said in announcing the program. “They are communicating with new tools of technology that were not even dreamt of a decade ago. And so they are already building cyber or Internet relationships, and we want to give them a chance to form the real deal (my emphasis).”
But any communications of American students to and from their Chinese counterparts, as noted via the Cisco link, are of course monitored and, thus, controlled.
In November 2013, in the 100,000 Strong Foundation’s inaugural year, the Yale-China Association was designated as one of eight signature partners. The Yale-China Association, a nonprofit separate from the University intended to foster a dialogue between America and China, “will assist the 100,000 Strong Foundation in fulfilling President Obama’s goal to have over 100,000 Americans studying abroad in China by 2014,” says a press release (Clinton was a Yale Law School graduate – 1973).
Is this really an “educational exchange” program? Or is China using it as an intelligence operation, as suggested by longtime Washington Times investigative reporter Bill Gertz?
During her tenure as the nation’s chief diplomat, Hillary Clinton seems to have had China’s support – and China’s back.
The Phyllis Schlafly Report (1998)
The China Connection Is the Real Scandal
Now we know why the Democrats were so vicious in their attacks on Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN) and Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN). Theirs were the committees that were closing in on the China connection, the scandal that can bring down the Clinton presidency, the scandal that has made Congressmen start to utter the T word (treason). A series of front-page news stories in the New York Times (May 15, 16, 17) essentially vindicated Thompson's charge that the Chinese Communist Government tried to influence the 1996 U.S. election with campaign contributions.
Bill Clinton's friend and ubiquitous Democratic fundraiser Johnny Chung told Federal investigators that he funneled nearly $100,000 from the Communist Chinese military to the Democratic campaign in the summer of 1996. The money was handed to Chung by the daughter of the top commander of China's People's Liberation Army, General Liu Huaqing, who was also one of the top five members of the Chinese Communist Party's ruling Politburo.
Chung's liaisons with the Clinton Administration were so cozy that he was able to arrange for the daughter, who goes by the name of Lt. Col. Liu Chaoying, to get a speedy visa and come to America to be photographed with Clinton on July 22, 1996. She is what is called a "princeling," one of the privileged offspring of China's ruling elite. In addition to her title as Lieutenant Colonel in the People's Liberation Army, she is a senior manager and vice president for China Aerospace International Holdings, which is the Hong Kong arm of China Aerospace Corporation, a state-owned jewel in China's military-industrial complex, with interests in satellite technology, rocket launches, and missiles.
Johnny Chung told Federal investigators that Col. Liu actually gave him $300,000, which she said originated with China's military's intelligence arm, and told him to use the money for Democratic campaign contributions. He apparently kept $200,000 for his "businesses." Soon after the picture-taking fundraiser, Col. Liu had Chung open a California branch of Marswell Investing, another of her Hong Kong enterprises, whose chief "business" was parking Chinese money in the United States. She also invested $300,000 in Chung's facsimile business. Chung was quite a hustler; he visited Clinton's White House 49 times.
After fundraising investigations began last year, the Democratic National Committee returned $366,000 to Chung which were suspected of being illegal foreign contributions. Chung has pleaded guilty to campaign-related bank and tax fraud.
URGENT WARNING!
If you get an email titled “Nude Photo of Hillary Clinton,” do NOT open it! It contains a nude photo of Hillary Clinton.
In November 2009, a group of Cisco shareholders stormed the annual shareholder’s meeting demanding that the company’s technology not be used to help the Chinese government commit human rights abuses; shareholders and company executives opposed that effort.
Shortly thereafter, as IBT noted: Cisco was honored as a finalist for the State Department’s award for “outstanding corporate citizenship, innovation and democratic principles.” The next year, the company won the award. While the honors were for the company’s work in the Middle East, they gave Cisco a well-timed opportunity to change the subject and present itself as a champion of human rights.
What Secy Clinton did not say at the State Department award ceremonies was that Cisco had been pumping money into The Clintons' family foundation.
Though the Clinton foundation will not release an exact timeline of the contributions, records reviewed by International Business Times show that Cisco had by December 2008 donated from $500,000 to a $million to the foundation.
In 1996 the Chinese military was caught smuggling full auto weapons to the gangs in LA, described as enough weapons for a small army.
The Chinese were going to make sure the Clintons didn’t leave the WH one way or another.
Liberal elites will destroy this country...
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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Clinton ties to the ChiComs go way back, as we have all seen.
And, though I admit freely that I have no documentation and that I have done no research, my instinct tells me that the Clintons sold nuclear secrets to the Chinese and then framed Wen Ho Lee as the leaker of secret information. Shortly thereafter, they sent Bill Richardson in to destroy the paper trail.
Don’t ask me for links or documentation, as I admit that this is just based on intuition.
LOL!
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In November 2013, in the 100,000 Strong Foundation’s inaugural year, the Yale-China Association was designated as one of eight signature partners. The Yale-China Association, a nonprofit separate from the University intended to foster a dialogue between America and China, “will assist the 100,000 Strong Foundation in fulfilling President Obama’s goal to have over 100,000 Americans studying abroad in China by 2014,” says a press release (Clinton was a Yale Law School graduate – 1973).
Yale has long been a major center for Chinese studies, thanks in part to the influence of George A. Kennedy who developed the Yale system for romanizing Mandarin characters, making it a natural infiltration target. Yale is also, of course, a major recruiting ground for the intelligence community, both U.S. and foreign.
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