Former State Department Official Spied for China Since 2007

The Washington Free Beacon ^ | April 26, 2019 5:00 am | Bill Gertz

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China's Ministry of State Security successfully obtained State Department internal documents from an embassy office manager who was paid in cash and gifts, according to court documents in the case of Candace Claiborne, a spy for China since 2007.

Claiborne, 62, a former State Department office manager posted to both Beijing and Shanghai, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a single conspiracy charge of defrauding the government by lying to federal agents about extensive contacts with two MSS intelligence officers.

"Candace Marie Claiborne traded her integrity and non-public information of the United States government in exchange for cash and other gifts from foreign agents she knew worked for the Chinese intelligence service," said Assistant Attorney General John C. Demers. "She withheld information and lied repeatedly about these contacts."

The government did not charge Claiborne with espionage and she had claimed in interviews with the FBI that she only passed unclassified State Department information to the MSS.

[econjack]

I hope the lock her up...with Hillary...and throw the key away.

[mindburglar]

Screw that. Public execution. Sick of these traitors.

[Reno89519]

Why not charge spy with spying and execute them?! Is spying no longer a crime?

[Psalm 73]

Why don't they shoot traitors anymore?
I know Red China would....

[Carriage Hill]

SPJNK.

[rktman]

Lucky she wasn’t associated with hildabeas................. Oh!?

[Carriage Hill]

Not since Clintoon and Obummer.

[rktman]

Kim Jong Dung would too.

[bantam]

Get rope. Find a tree.

[elpadre]

Why is she not charged with treason?? We are not talking about just lying to investigators. This is as serious as it gets. Why the kid gloves approach??

[Reily]

We haven’t executed a spy since the Rosenbergs.
Not against the idea but once you executed the spy its hard to get any more information out of them! Like is she part of a network? Do you really know what she has turned over to the Chinese? Again if she’s dead you’ll never know the extent of the loss. Then there’s the whole bargaining chip thing for assets we have lost to the Chinese. Though the Chinese tend not to keep them around.

[Grampa Dave]

Yo B$tch! Enjoy your free medical care and room and board!

[chris37]

Execute the traitor then.

Publicly.

[BuffaloJack]

Execute the whore with prejudice.
Anyone, especially a traitor, which she clearly is, who would spy against my country needs to die.

[Red Badger]

[Gay State Conservative]

Put her up against the wall and give her a 21 gun “salute”.

[Red Badger]

Our Constitution defines ‘treason’ as only during time of war.

Sedition otherwise...................

[hardspunned]

No only is spying no longer a crime, its taboo to even utter the word in connection with leftist deep staters. The “s” word, the “n” word.