Posted on 07/08/2022 11:04:36 AM PDT by Red Badger
U.S. prosecutors charged two men with professional ties to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with participating in what federal officials have described as a “transnational repression scheme” that involved spying on and harassing political dissidents in the United States on behalf of the Peoples’ Republic of China (PRC).
Craig Miller, a DHS deportation officer who has worked out of Minneapolis, Minnesota, for the last 15 years, and Derrick Taylor, a former DHS law enforcement agent and private investigator in Irvine, California, were indicted on Thursday by a federal grand jury, alongside three other men.
“We will defend the rights of people in the United States to engage in free speech and political expression, including views the PRC government wants to silence,” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security Matthew G. Olsen, in a statement from the Department of Justice. “As charged, these individuals aided agents of a foreign government in seeking to suppress dissenting voices who have taken refuge here. The defendants include two sworn law enforcement officers who chose to forsake their oaths and violate the law. This indictment is the next step in holding all of these defendants responsible for their crimes.”
The other three defendants in the case are Fan “Frank” Liu, Matthew Ziburis, and Qiang “Jason” Sun. Liu and Ziburis were arrested previously in March, and were residents of New York. Miller and Taylor were arrested in June. Sun is a resident of the PRC and remains at large.
According to the relevant court documents, one of Liu’s co-conspirators allegedly retained Taylor to obtain personal information about multiple PRC dissidents living in the United States, including flight records, passport information and photographs. Taylor was allegedly assisted by two other DHS officers, including Miller. These contacts within the DHS allegedly obtained the information from a restricted government database and illicitly provided it to Taylor. Liu, Ziburis, and Sun allegedly used this information to target and harass these dissidents at the behest of the PRC.
Miller allegedly deleted text messages between himself and Taylor while being questioned by authorities, and Taylor supposedly instructed an associate to withhold evidence from the FBI.
Miller and Taylor have been charged with obstruction of justice, and Taylor has additionally been charged with making false statements to the FBI. Liu and Ziburis are being charged with conspiring to act as agents of the PRC. Liu, Ziburis, and Sun are being charged with conspiring to commit interstate harassment and criminal use of a means of identification.
The accused, if convicted, face decades in prison, with possible sentences for the defendants ranging between 20-30 years.
US govt workers aiding and abetting the CCP - sounds like life sentences are too good. The others are spies and should be given harsher sentences.
Only TWO?
Just think, 9/11 would have never occurred if we had a real immigration policy and laws. Muslims should never be allowed into America for any reason; not for school, not for vacation, not for business and definitely not as refugees or general immigration. That would have saved trillions of dollars and kept America American.
Yeah! How dare they suppress political opposition? That’s the FBI’s job!!
Only TWO?
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I’m beginning to suspect, based on the way our government publicly operates, that a majority of politicians and government workers have ben compromised by the CCP. All the actions the government takes seem designed to harm the country and its people.
Yep.
I think the U.S. taxpayers have had just about all of the “Homeland Security” that we need. Time to start the defunding and RIFs.
whut!
Starting with Brandon & Son. They have and are making a lot of money with th Chinese and. Dropping the tariffs is part of the services provided for their pay. China’s biggest beef with the tariffs is that they are pushing some American companies back out of China and into the USA.
Hunter Biden will pardon these traitors. It runs in his crime family.
For a small fee, of course......................
Trickle down treason.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) had sex with a chinese spy.
He is on the Jan 6 committee trying to jail Donald Trump on false charges!!
Trickle down treason.
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yup. joe six pack & the ladies at happy hour will never hear a word about this
“Homeland” in the name of a US Government agency has always felt like something out of a ‘70’s movie about a dystopian future.
Only TWO?
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I’m beginning to suspect, based on the way our government publicly operates, that a majority of politicians and government workers have ben compromised by the CCP. All the actions the government takes seem designed to harm the country and its people.
I agree. The Fedgov is likely riddled with spies and traitors.
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Even beyond that (as I have posted before), we need to consider the possibility that the Chinese are already running our country. The current incident of Joe Bitem draining our strategic oil reserves - at a time when domestic oil production is being curtailed - and selling it to China, is an act of treason, as Tucker Carlson just pointed out; it is a clearly impeachable offense. However, who will raise the issue publicly?
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