Posted on 03/30/2017 1:37:29 PM PDT by markomalley
A veteran State Department employee took payments to spy for China over a five-year period, according to Justice Department officials.
Two Chinese intelligence officers handled the employee, who had a top secret clearance, the department said. The staffer, Candace Claiborne, allegedly acknowledged that the officers were "spies," but collaborated with them in exchange for money and tried to hide her connections with them.
"Claiborne used her position and her access to sensitive diplomatic data for personal profit," acting Assistant Attorney General Mary B. McCord said Wednesday. "Pursuing those who imperil our national security for personal gain will remain a key priority of the National Security Division."
The official expected to make as much as $20,000 a year from the illicit work, according to the Justice Department. The spies sent her almost $2,500 in exchange for "internal U.S. government analyses on a U.S.-Sino Strategic Economic Dialogue that had just concluded."
The announcement is the latest example of foreign intelligence operating against the United States. U.S. intelligence officials have been fighting the problem with particular intensity ever since National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden stole millions of documents and fled the country.
The release of a trove of internal CIA documents has raised new fears that WikiLeaks has a human source within the intelligence agency.
"U.S. government employees will be held accountable for failing to honor the trust placed in them when they take on such sensitive assignments," U.S. Attorney Channing Phillips said Wednesday.
After being found guilty of treason she should be hung in front of the state department until her remains turn to dust.
We need a big campaign to oust the career traitors which should involve the death penalty. Letting them off on receiving ‘gifts’ is a joke. She knew she was spying for the Chinese. It’s treason.
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A country that lacks the fortitude to execute its traitors is doomed.
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