Posted on 08/04/2023 5:13:45 AM PDT by Red Badger
Wei allegedly began communicating with a Chinese intelligence officer in February 2022.
Two U.S. Navy servicemembers have been arrested for allegedly transmitting sensitive military information to the Chinese government.
Authorities detained Jinchao Wei, aka Patrick Wei, on Wednesday and charged him with "conspiracy to send national defense information to an intelligence officer working for the People’s Republic of China," according to a press release from the Department of Justice.
Wei allegedly began communicating with a Chinese intelligence officer in February 2022. That official tasked Wei with providing information related to U.S. Navy ships. At the time, Wei was stationed about the U.S.S. Essex. He allegedly provided the Chinese official with information on the weapons systems of the vessel and also disclosed the locations of other U.S. ships.
The DOJ further identified specific instances in which Wei passed sensitive information to the officer, for which he often received remuneration.
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California Randy Grossman termed the alleged handover of defense information an "ultimate act of betrayal" and vowed that "the United States will aggressively investigate and prosecute" comparable instances.
In a separate case, the DOJ charged Wenheng Zhao, aka Thomas Zhao, for receiving bribes in exchanging for sending information to a Chinese intelligence officer, who had masqueraded as a maritime economic researcher.
Zhao's passing of materials to the Chinese official began in August of 2021 and ran through at least May of this year.
One of the major exchanges involved Zhao's alleged handover of operations plans for a major U.S. military exercise in the Indo-Pacific region. The DOJ confirmed that Zhao provided specific locations and timings for the movement of naval forces in that incident.
U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Martin Estrada excoriated Zhao, saying that "[b]y sending this sensitive military information to an intelligence officer employed by a hostile foreign state, the defendant betrayed his sacred oath to protect our country and uphold the Constitution."
Zhao faces a maximum of 20 years in prison.
The cases do not appear to be connected.
Just part and parcel of diversity in a big country…
They’re everywhere. You can’t trust a single first or second generation Chinaman, not a single one.
The next 20 years of white men checking out is going to be brutal.
That would be the proper thing to do, which means of course Shitshow Joe won't do it.
Not directly related but back in ‘03 I got sent to Roosevelt Roads Naval Station in Puerto Rico to straighten out an issue with navy jet engine components.
In engaging the sailor maintainers in the shop I quickly realized several were PR natives and could speak very little English if any and they needed a bilingual sailor to translate.
Being it was in an aircraft maintenance environment that just didn’t sound safe to me.
Apparently the standards for being an “American” in the US Military is a bit loose to say the least.
Stuff happens.
IIRC, being an ‘American’ in the US military isn’t even required..................
Red Chinese “Americans”. ROTFLMAO. WAKE UP AMERICA! YOUR HOME IS ON FIRE AND IS BURNING TO THE GROUND! PUT DOWN YOUR SELFIE MACHINE AND DO SOMETHING!!!
Yeah, that’s my point.....something about that just seems fundamentally flawed. 🤔
Yes, they were probably CCP plants from the start. But it would have been racism is they had been denied security clearance. It is much better to endanger the entire country than to be accused of racism. Being accused of racism is worse than death to the brainwashed masses.
Simply following the lead of their CIC
Treason should require the death penalty
That’s crazy.
Why anyone ever cared about being called racist is beyond me.
“The stupid, it burns” will have dire consequences.
Unfortunately our constitution defines ‘treason’ as being in time of war....................
Just following the desires of puppet emperor Joe Xiden . . .
They most certainly are connected as they were both working for the CCP.
They want to be Spies just the Biden Family
Intresting. William Burns went to China and told Xi Jinping that the US is going to reconstruct our human spy network in China. What an idiot.
Between 2010 and 2012 the Chinese killed or imprisoned 20 Chinese people spying for the US.
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