Posted on 01/09/2024 8:07:07 AM PST by texas booster
That fine is considerably lower than the $14,866 in at least 14 separate bribe payments China paid Zhao.
A slap on the wrist!.....................
“Zhao transmitted plans for a large-scale maritime training exercise in the Pacific theatre, operational orders and electrical diagrams and blueprints for a Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar system located in Okinawa, Japan.”
27 months for that? He should face a firing squad.
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Guess no CONgress critters need be concerned with similar violations?
I first saw this on gCaptain. Since we shouldn’t post from them I went to the DoJ press release.
Is there anything that the DoJ can’t screw up?
Caught red handed, they throw a kleenex at him.
But watch out for those eevvilll white nationalists that (are not) in the military.
Agreed 27 months is less time in jail than the Jan 6 protestors.
He should have been fined several times the amount of the bribe, and given 5 years minimum.
IMO.
Diversity is our strength ...
27 months? That’s it? Jan 6 political prisoners have been held longer than that without even getting a fair trial. This guy only gets 27 months for spying?
How long are the sentences of US spies who get caught by the Chinese for spying there? It seems to me the least we could do is reciprocate.
I believe that there are J6 victims that were held in "pre-trial" detention for longer than that.
This guy should be doing 30 to life and had all his assets confiscated.
he literally encysted his transmission of sensitive material, there can be no doubt of his intent.
He is guilty of treason, if we were at war with China it would warrant a firing squad!
They don’t want the sentence to be too long in the event it sets precedent for when Hunter and Joe are convicted.
Remind me.
How long did that sailor get that was taking pictures to send his family on the submarine he was serving on?
Guess he wasn’t Chinese?🤔
27 months? That wouldn’t even get a J6 hostage to their first hearing. I guess being a Chinese spy isn’t as serious.
Hillary Clinton should have sent him a dust cloth.
A Biden relative?
I’m gonna say you guys have all been taken in by hype.
The way it reads to me is he disclosed no classified information. They word it as sensitive, non-public. Then they lead with OpSec terminology about exercises. They also say he destroyed evidence (leading one to wonder if it ever existed).
There IS talk of wiring diagrams, but this might very well be a description of interconnections. In other words, I don’t see anything in this celebration of some lawyers activity seeking promotions to suggest any super duper technical magic secrets were disclosed to the Chinese.
It reads like they were lucky to get a conviction at all.
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Today’s sentencing demonstrates, yet again, the inability of China’s Intelligence Services to prevent the FBI and our vital partners from apprehending and prosecuting the spies China recruits.
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Why would anyone think Chinese intelligence can prevent the FBI from arresting people? What the hell is this sentence supposed to say?
I think the whole thing is some DOJ lawyers praising themselves.
> This guy should be doing 30 to life and had all his assets confiscated. <
Yes, indeed. 27 months is a joke…unless he gave up very significant information in return for a lighter sentence. So is this the result of a plea deal?
Wow, I never thought they’d slap charges on Eric Swalwell….oh wait.
A very light sentence. Was it because he was working for Traitor Joe and Hunter?
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