Posted on 03/20/2020 10:15:48 AM PDT by Liz
Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s Ties To China Go Way Deeper Than an office spy. As media, intelligence agency, and political scrutiny of foreign meddling is seemingly at its apex, a story with big national security implications involving a high-ranking senator with access to America’s most sensitive intelligence information has been hiding in plain sight.
The story involves China and the senior U.S. senator from California, and former chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Democrat Dianne Feinstein. It was buried eight paragraphs into a recent Politico exposé on foreign efforts to infiltrate Silicon Valley, as a passing example of political espionage:
Former intelligence officials…[said] Chinese intelligence once recruited a staff member at a California office of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, and the source reported back to China about local politics. (A spokesperson for Feinstein said the office doesn’t comment on personnel matters or investigations, but noted that no Feinstein staffer in California has ever had a security clearance.)
Later comes additional detail:
According to four former intelligence officials, in the 2000s, a staffer in Senator Dianne Feinstein’s San Francisco field office was reporting back to the MSS [China’s Ministry of State Security, its intelligence and security apparatus]. While this person, who was a liaison to the local Chinese community, was fired, charges were never filed against him. (One former official reasoned this was because the staffer was providing political intelligence and not classified information—making prosecution far more difficult.) The suspected informant was ‘run’ by officials based at China’s San Francisco Consulate, said another former intelligence official. The spy’s handler ‘probably got an award back in China’ for his work, noted this former official, dryly.
This anecdote provides significantly more questions than answers. For starters: Who was the spy? For how long was the spy under surveillance? What information about “local politics” was the spy passing back to China? Just how close was the spy to the senator? Did law enforcement officials sweep vehicles and other areas for listening devices? Was there an investigation into whether others in the senator’s circle may have been coordinating with Beijing?
Did the senator expose herself to potential blackmail, or the public to danger through leakage of sensitive, highly classified information? Is firing really the proper punishment for providing political intelligence to a foreign power?ein
The Details Right Now Are Few and Blurry
We now know only the most basic of additional details about what occurred in Feinstein’s office. Five years ago, the FBI approached the senator to apprise her that a San Francisco-based staffer was being investigated under suspicion of spying for China. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Feinstein’s hometown paper, this staffer, who had worked with Feinstein for almost 20 years, drove her around in San Francisco and “served as gofer in her San Francisco office and as a liaison to the Asian American community, even attending Chinese Consulate functions for the senator.”
An unnamed source added that a Chinese MSS official first approached the staffer during a visit to Asia several years prior. Given his proximity to Feinstein, we have no idea what information he could have gleaned in her employ. We do have a presumed identity. The Daily Caller discovered that a Feinstein staffer named Russell Lowe, listed on the senator’s payroll as an “office director” as of 2013 before he was let go, matches the description of the Chinese asset.
It appears Lowe continues to operate freely in the United States. A year after he was removed from Feinstein’s staff, Lowe spoke at a conference on Chinese investment in California. In October 2017 he visited a South Korean publication’s office with former Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA), indicating he still had access to political figures.
Lowe presently serves as secretary general of the Education for Social Justice Foundation, which seeks to “educate the public on unresolved historical conflicts, human rights, and crimes against humanity.” The Chinese government likely views its present focus favorably: Japanese abuses during the World War II era via its “comfort women” system whereby 200,000 girls from 13 or more Asian countries were forced into sexual slavery. Lowe discusses the nonprofit’s work here.
It took a tweet from President Trump implying hypocrisy, given Feinstein’s role investigating “Russian collusion” as a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, while a Chinese spy had infiltrated her own office, to force the senator to address the issue.
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DI FI HIRED that Chinese Driver just SO he could get info to the Chinese govt. with NO PAPER TRAIL!!!.....just like Hiliary’s UNSECURED SERVER.....open to the WORLD for all to read and then they paid the Clinton Crime Family Slush Fund huge amounts of money for the info!
Meanwhile at the super secret underground lair of the DOH-j———crickets.
......and her cooperation gave her hubby entree to huge deals.......
......makes Hunter Biden’s China deal look like a lemonade stand.
Was that a PRE-PAYMENT or POST Payment???
Hunter served on the board of Chinese private equity company BHR Partners, organizing a meet-and-greet between Joe Biden and BHR CEO Jonathan Li on Dec. 4, 2013, according to the New Yorker.
The official govt database disclosed details about Hunter Biden's time in China. Hunter visited China on at least two other occasions, once each before and after the December 2013 meeting.
Official records show that Hunter Biden stayed in China for 1-2 weeks in June 2013 and March 2014, costing taxpayers nearly $13,000 in SS details alone.
Our elites have effectively short sold the American economy and invested all in on the Chinese economy.
For the political and financial elite to do well and win, ordinary Americans have to do poorly and lose.
It's just as simple as that.
America and Americans have been sold out via graft and corruption.
And I am a total free trade type of guy who has always felt that, despite our many flaws, Americans can kick ass to take on the world and win given even a nearly level playing field.
No way can we compete in a world where the Vice Presidents moronic and incompetent loser son is handed billions of dollars by the Chinese military in exchange for his Vice President father selling out our country to Communist China
Not by a damn sight can we beat those odds.
It was a new investment fund of which Hunter had NO EXPERIENCE!! The Chinese Govt. didn’t give 1 1/2 BILLION to GOLDMAN SACHS!!!!
NEED TO KNOW
<><> Did Di use her access to valuable US security data improperly?
<><> Hubby Richard Blum made billions in China deals in past years.
<><> Is hubby cutting new deals w/ the Chi/Coms?
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Sen DiFi and her hubby know a thing or two about putting themselves ahead of the citizens interests......
using her privileged Govt status and influence to steer business and profits to enrich themselves.
Back in Sept 2014, Senate intel head Di/Fi was whining about the CIA looking through her computers
and taking documents. Clearly, the CIA had plenty on her.
INCONVENIENT FACTOIDS:
<><>Feinstein once headed the Senate Intel Committee;
<><> Her hubby Richard Blum made billion as the lawyer for Chinese interests and from tax-funded govt contracts;
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LIFE CAN BE BEAUTIFUL IN THE FEDERAL SECTOR ---
Di/Fi and husband profit for 15 years from federal funds
NY Post | 1/19/15 | Richard Johnson / FR Posted by Libloather
Page Six reported on the lucrative deal Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s husband has to sell 56 post office buildings barely scratched the surface of her conflicts of interest. The California Democrat’s financier husband, Richard C. Blum, is estimated to be a billionaire from his shrewd investments in companies that profit from federal policies.
“For at least 15 years, Feinstein has appeared to support government contracts that push federal funds toward companies co-owned or governed by her powerful, billionaire husband, Richard C. Blum,” Breitbart News reported. (Excerpt) Read more at pagesix.com ...
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ITEM--Sen Feinstein's and her husband, Richard Blum, became billionaires representing China's interests.
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THERE'S GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS---Sponsored by Senator Diane Feinstein, the Desert Wilderness Protection Act and its companion bill known as the California Desert Protection Act created three new national parks and seventy- four new wilderness areas in the desert of California that total 8 million acres (an area the size of Maryland).
This closes acreage to development, forces out private owners within the protected area and closes mines and ranches. It also expands the Death Valley and Joshua Tree national monuments and upgrades them to national parks.
It seems that the real motivation for passage of this bill lies with the special interest groups that would benefit monetarily. Through a complex series of land exchanges, Catellus Corporation (Owned by none other than Richard Blum DiFI Hubby), a subsidiary of Santa Fe Pacific, will receive land that contains some of the richest gold deposits in the world.
Heh.......the password was VP.
SHADES of the CRIMINAL CLINTONS IN HAITI!!
They can’t be allowed to escape when the SHTF.
....lol......same scam......
Very first time I read anything about the CIA taking some of her info!! And NOTHING HAPPENED TO HER!!!
That was Obama’s CIA.......O was getting a cut of di/fi hubby’s China deals. ......
CIA was just making sure O was getting it all.
Meanwhile, Trump’s hotels are losing a ton of money.
Pres Clinton lobbied at WH gala by donor Bernard L. Schwartz, CEO of Space & Communications Ltd., of New York.......
...............Clinton collected donations ........then shipped US missile tech to China.
JOHNNY CHUNG: "Gotta put coins in---ka-ching---to make Clintons do something."
DNC — Demonic National Socialists - USA for sale.
Dianne knows everything except that her driver was a spy.
Lol...........too much Chinese food?.......numbed her brain.
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