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  • University that housed Biden center pressed to end FBI China spy probe after big Beijing donations

    01/12/2023 8:38:38 AM PST · by george76 · 18 replies
    Just the News. ^ | January 12, 2023 | John Solomon and Nick Givas
    University of Pennsylvania, which hosted the Penn Biden Center where classified documents were found in November, received $47.7 million from China in the three years when Biden was affiliated with it. ... The University of Pennsylvania, the Ivy League institution which collected tens of millions of dollars from China while paying Joe Biden and hosting his foreign policy think tank, successfully pressured the Biden Justice Department to end an FBI counterespionage program targeting Beijing's increasing influence within U.S. academia. Attorney General Merrick Garland shut down the FBI's so-called China initiative in February 2022 shortly after more than 160 members of...
  • China-linked Hackers May Have Stolen Data From Almost Every American: Report

    09/04/2025 9:07:21 AM PDT · by daniel1212 · 14 replies
    timesnownews ^ | Sep 4, 2025 | Arun Nair
    Chinese government-backed hackers have reportedly stolen information from critical infrastructure and government computer systems as part of a years-long campaign that includes the well-known Salt Typhoon activity. More than 80 countries were targeted and the Chinese hackers are learnt to have "stolen information from nearly every American", officials said, according to The New York Times. .. During the sweeping yearlong attack, China-backed Salt Typhoon group infiltrated major telecommunications companies and others, and stole data could allow Chinese intelligence services to exploit global communication networks to track targets including politicians, spies and activists, investigators said in a highly unusual joint statement...
  • Trump defends U-turn on Chinese student visas after Maga backlash

    09/01/2025 5:51:44 PM PDT · by Mariner · 84 replies
    BBC News via Yahoo ^ | Mon, September 1, 2025 at 7:28 AM PDT | Robin Levinson King - BBC News
    US President Donald Trump has defended his decision to issue 600,000 Chinese student visas, despite a backlash from some supporters.He told the Daily Caller on Sunday that it would be "insulting" to ban them, and said his move would benefit smaller universities.The president is reversing the hard line his administration has taken on this for months, as trade talks with China continue.Some of his allies in the Maga wing of Trump's Republican Party have expressed anger and confusion. "I just don't understand it for the life of me," said Fox News host Laura Ingraham. "Those are 600,000 spots that American...
  • Chinese Ph.D. Student Pleads No Contest to Smuggling Biological Materials into U.S.

    09/01/2025 5:27:11 AM PDT · by thegagline · 15 replies
    Legal Insurrection ^ | 08/31/2025 | Leslie Eastman
    In June, I reported that Chengxuan Han, a Chinese national and Ph.D. student at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in Wuhan, was charged with smuggling biological material into the United States and making false statements to federal authorities. Han was apprehended upon arrival at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on a J1 visa after a flight from China. Han has now pleaded no contest to the charges. *** On June 8, 2025, Han arrived at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport on a J1 visa. Customs and Border Protection officers conducted an inspection of Han, during which Han made false statements about...
  • DOJ alleges Russia funded US media company linked to right wing social media stars.

    09/06/2024 4:59:10 AM PDT · by hardspunned · 41 replies
    CNN ^ | 9/5/24 | Zachary Cohen, Donie O'Sullivan, Evan Perez, Sean Lyngaas and Majlie de Puy Kamp,
    The unnamed Tennessee-based company that the Justice Department alleges was being funded by Russian operatives working as part of a Kremlin-orchestrated influence operation targeting the 2024 US election is Tenet Media, which is linked to right-wing commentators with millions of subscribers on YouTube and other social media platforms, according to a US official briefed on the matter. The indictment unsealed in New York’s Southern District accused two employees of RT, the Kremlin’s media arm, of funneling nearly $10 million to an unidentified company, described only as “Company 1” in court documents. CNN has independently confirmed that “Company 1” is Tenet...
  • The FBI Paid For Russian Disinformation To Frame Trump—And 7 Other Takeaways From Durham’s Latest Court Filing

    09/14/2022 8:25:15 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 31 replies
    Federalist ^ | BY: MARGOT CLEVELAND SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
    Our federal government paid for Russian disinformation to frame the president of the United States for colluding with Russia. ============================================================ The FBI put a contributor to the Hillary Clinton campaign’s Donald Trump smear dossier on FBI payroll as a confidential human source after investigating Igor Danchenko for allegedly spying for the Russian government, revealed Special Counsel John Durham in a court filing unsealed by a Virginia federal court yesterday. The filing contains this bombshell and seven other significant details about the Democrat-led plot to use U.S. intelligence agencies to deny Americans the results of their choice for president in 2016....
  • Trump says US will accept 600,000 Chinese students as part of trade deal

    08/25/2025 3:22:47 PM PDT · by hcmama · 194 replies
    The Washington Times via MSN ^ | August 25, 2025 | Naomi Lim
    President Donald Trump announced the United States is prepared to accept up to 600,000 Chinese students as part of a trade deal his administration is trying to strike with China."We're going to allow, it's very important, 600,000 students," Trump told reporters Monday at the White House. "We're going to get along with China. But it's a different relationship that we have now with China."
  • British Government Seeks to Limit Disclosure in Litvinenko Case

    02/26/2013 4:33:57 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 8 replies
    New York Times ^ | February 26, 2013 | Alan Cowell
    The British government sought on Tuesday to limit the information it would disclose at a planned inquest into the death of Alexander V. Litvinenko, a former officer in the K.G.B. who succumbed to radiation poisoning in London more than six years ago. The coroner hearing the case said that it may now be postponed. “Due to the complexity of the investigation which necessarily precedes the hearings,” the coroner, Sir Robert Owen, said, “it may not be possible to adhere” to the planned May 1 start date for the hearings. The inquest would be the first — and probably the only...
  • Two more indicted in California in military secrets case - Chi Mak ,, Power Paragon

    06/07/2006 4:41:29 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 7 replies · 270+ views
    ap on Riverside Press Enterprise ^ | 6/7/06 | Jeremiah Marquez - ap
    LOS ANGELES Two family members were charged Wednesday in the federal case against a Chinese-American engineer accused of trying to send sensitive information about Navy warships to China. An indictment returned by a grand jury in Santa Ana charged Billy Mak, 26, and his mother, Fuk Heung Li, 48, with making false statements and acting as agents of a foreign government, namely China, without prior notification to the U.S. attorney general, said FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller. Billy Mak is the nephew of Chi Mak, who allegedly took computer disks from an Anaheim defense contractor where he was lead engineer on...
  • DOJ: US Navy sailor sold military secrets to China for $12,000

    08/23/2025 5:00:31 PM PDT · by artichokegrower · 28 replies
    KTVU ^ | August 23, 2025 | By Austin Williams
    Petty Officer Jinchao "Patrick" Wei, 25, was convicted of six federal charges including espionage. Prosecutors say he passed sensitive Navy ship information to a Chinese intelligence officer for $12,000. Wei is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 1 and faces a lengthy prison term.
  • Gabbard barred sharing intelligence on Russia-Ukraine negotiations with "Five Eyes" partners

    08/21/2025 7:27:31 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 34 replies
    CBS News ^ | August 21, 2025 | James LaPorta
    As Russia's war in Ukraine rages on despite high-level meetings to discuss a possible path to peace, CBS News has learned that Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, issued a directive weeks ago to the U.S. intelligence community ordering that all information regarding the Russia-Ukraine peace negotiations not be shared with U.S.-allied intelligence partners. The memo, dated July 20 and signed by Gabbard, directed agencies to not share information with the so-called Five Eyes, the post-World War II intelligence alliance comprising the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand, multiple U.S. intelligence officials told CBS News. They spoke under...
  • US Navy Sailor Convicted of Spying for China

    08/20/2025 9:24:37 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 49 replies
    BBC ^ | 8/21 | Regan Morris
    A US Navy sailor in California has been convicted of espionage for selling the force's secrets to a Chinese agent who recruited him through social media. Jinchao Wei, 25, was convicted of six charges, including espionage, conspiracy to commit espionage, and unlawful export of classified data about US Navy ships. "The defendant's actions represent an egregious betrayal of the trust placed in him as a member of the US military," US Attorney Adam Gordon said in a statement after the verdict was read. "By trading military secrets to the People's Republic of China for cash, he jeopardised not only the...
  • Julian Assange's treatment in prison putting his life at risk, UN rights expert warns

    11/07/2019 6:33:17 PM PST · by yesthatjallen · 19 replies
    APF ^ | 11 02 2019 | Staff
    The treatment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is facing the threat of extradition from Britain to the US on espionage charges, is putting his life "at risk", according to an independent UN rights expert. "Unless the UK urgently changes course and alleviates his inhumane situation, Mr Assange's continued exposure to arbitrariness and abuse may soon end up costing his life," the UN special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, Nils Melzer, said in a statement. Mr Melzer, who visited the 48-year-old Australian in a London prison on May 9, nearly a month after his arrest...
  • Breaking News: Julian Assange headed for U.S. territory before going to Australia!

    06/24/2024 9:11:47 PM PDT · by RandFan · 40 replies
    X ^ | June 25 | @MarioNawfal
    @MarioNawfal BREAKING: ASSANGE EN ROUTE TO BANGKOK, THEN NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS Julian Assange is reportedly aboard VistaJet Flight 199, currently flying over Afghanistan towards Bangkok. This flight is part of his multi-leg journey following his release from UK prison. -Assange's next stop is Bangkok -He will then fly to the Northern Mariana Islands to formally plead guilty -His final destination is reported as Australia This travel arrangement is part of the plea deal process, allowing Assange to make his court appearance in the U.S. territory before returning home.
  • BBC: JULIAN ASSANGE to plead guilty in deal with U.S.

    06/24/2024 4:43:15 PM PDT · by RandFan · 57 replies
    BBC ^ | June 24 | BBC
    Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty to US criminal charges as part of a deal that allows him to go free, according to court documents. Assange, 52, was charged with conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information. For years, the US has argued that the Wikileaks files - which disclosed information about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars - endangered lives. He has spent the last five years in a British prison, from where he has been fighting extradition to the US. According to CBS, the BBC's US partner, Assange will spend no time in US custody and will...
  • CIA’s Top Spy Steps Down

    01/23/2015 4:05:32 PM PST · by Enlightened1 · 8 replies
    The Daily Beast ^ | 01/23/15 | Shane Harris
    The secretive head of the agency’s National Clandestine Service is retiring amid reports of infighting over a reorganization of the intelligence service. The director of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service, the storied home of the agency’s most secretive intelligence operations, has announced that he plans to retire, The Daily Beast has learned. CIA spokesman Dean Boyd confirmed that the director announced his retirement “after a long and distinguished career at CIA. We thank him for this profound and lasting contributions to both CIA and to our nation’s security.”
  • John Durham Ignores Role of U.S., U.K., and Australian Intelligence Operatives in Setting the Stage for Crossfire Hurricane

    05/22/2023 7:43:23 AM PDT · by bitt · 23 replies
    gateway pundit ^ | 5/22/2022 | larry johnson
    Failed Prosecutor John Durham’s report on the Hillary Clinton campaign plot to convince the American electorate and U.S. allies that Donald Trump was a stooge of Russia totally ignores the role that intelligence operatives from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Israel played in helping set the stage to provide the FBI with the pretext of predication for launching its now discredited Crossfire Hurricane investigation of the Trump Campaign. Let me take you back to an article I wrote in May 2019. John Durham and his team failed to address any of the issues and leads I raised:...
  • EXCLUSIVE - Chinese spy threat to U.S. CONGRESS: Capitol Hill warned to be on high alert after suspected Beijing espionage plot was uncovered in British parliament

    09/17/2023 7:09:15 PM PDT · by Libloather · 41 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 9/17/23 | Kelly Laco, Wills Robinson
    Congress has been warned to be on high alert for Chinese spies after a suspected Beijing espionage plot was uncovered in British parliament. Earlier this week, a parliamentary researcher with links to MPs with classified information was arrested for 'spying for China.' The suspect is thought to be linked to numerous Conservative members of Parliament - including Security Minister Tom Tugendhat and Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Alicia Kearns. According to reports, several of the members with links to the suspected spy are 'privy to classified or highly sensitive information', however none have been accused of wrongdoing. The suspect, who was...
  • Anti-Trump ‘Resistance’ Leader’s Campaign Bankrolled By Dem Power Broker Tied To Chinese Intel Agency

    04/14/2025 6:41:20 AM PDT · by hardspunned · 26 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | 4/14/25 | PHILIP LENCZYCKI
    Boston Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu’s 2021 campaign received hundreds of thousands of dollars from a fundraiser who is listed by a Chinese intelligence agency as an official, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered. Gary Yu, the founder of Boston International Media Consulting, helped raise over $300,000 for Wu with the help of a Chinese civic association he leads. However, Yu — whose Chinese name is Yu Guoliang — is listed as an official by an agency of a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence and intelligence service called the United Front Work Department (UFWD), and also operates as a recruiter...
  • REPORT: Top German Newspaper Killed Major Corruption Story to Please Joe Biden

    05/13/2023 5:36:47 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 11 replies
    Red State ^ | 05/13/2023 | Bonchie
    The most circulated newspaper in Europe killed a major corruption story to please Joe Biden. A new report details how editors at Bild, the outlet in question, canned an extensive investigative piece on Albanian PM Edi Rama because he and the US president are friends and political allies.Per The Washington Examiner, Albania has become a narco-state over the last decade under Rama, and Bild was getting ready to expose him further.So, who is Rama? He’s the far-left leader of Albania’s Socialist Party. Accusations against him range from drug trafficking to money laundering, to extortion and vote buying.A few days ago,...