Posted on 04/13/2017 7:24:32 PM PDT by Beowulf9
Candace Marie Claiborne has become the first Clinton-era State Department employee indicted on treason charges, after a federal grand jury indicted her for conspiring to defraud the U.S. government, concealing contact with foreign spies, obstructing an official proceeding, and making false statements to the FBI.
Claiborne, a veteran State Department employee who possessed a Top Secret security clearance, concealed her extensive contacts with Chinese intelligence agents, who for years lavished her with thousands of dollars in gifts as part of a pay-for-play scheme, according to a Department of Justice press release.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirrorspectrum.com ...
I hope to follow this case and learn more. As you say - it is a question of evidence, of proof. But it could be a sound case and in that case, I would expect it to lead to other individuals.
That’s not a spy, that’s a sorry excuse for a basset hound
Well... at least the actual accused doesn’t look like a Bassett hound... another careerist.
Any word on who her coconspirator is?
APRIL - MAY 2012 : (SOMETIME IN THIS PERIOD STATE DEPT EMPLOYEE CANDICE CLAIBORNE PROVIDES HER CHINESE HANDLER WITH INFORMATION ON CHINESE DISSIDENT CHEN GUANGCHENG, WHO WAS SECRETLY STAYING AT THE US EMBASSY IN BEIJING ) -— http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/state-department-employee-accused-of-aiding-chinese-spies.html
Hmm..A thread from 2017. Just curious what made you resuscitate a 2 year old thread?
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