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Did Clinton & Obama's use of private email, open a door to Chinese intelligence?
Twitter via Thread Reader App ^ | 7/15/2018 | REX @_ImperatorRex_

Posted on 07/17/2018 11:08:14 AM PDT by b4its2late

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To: b4its2late

I think multiple “state actors” got access to Hillary Clinton’s private email server—not only the Russians, Chinese, North Koreans and Iranians, but the British and Israeli intelligence services, too.


21 posted on 07/17/2018 12:06:09 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: b4its2late

Absolutely not.

WASHINGTON — The Chinese government systematically dismantled C.I.A. spying operations in the country starting in 2010, killing or imprisoning more than a dozen sources over two years and crippling intelligence gathering there for years afterward.

Current and former American officials described the intelligence breach as one of the worst in decades. It set off a scramble in Washington’s intelligence and law enforcement agencies to contain the fallout, but investigators were bitterly divided over the cause. Some were convinced that a mole within the C.I.A. had betrayed the United States. Others believed that the Chinese had hacked the covert system the C.I.A. used to communicate with its foreign sources. Years later, that debate remains unresolved.

But there was no disagreement about the damage. From the final weeks of 2010 through the end of 2012, according to former American officials, the Chinese killed at least a dozen of the C.I.A.’s sources. According to three of the officials, one was shot in front of his colleagues in the courtyard of a government building — a message to others who might have been working for the C.I.A.

Still others were put in jail. All told, the Chinese killed or imprisoned 18 to 20 of the C.I.A.’s sources in China, according to two former senior American officials, effectively unraveling a network that had taken years to build.

...Oh, and when was HRC’s tenure as SoS again?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spies-espionage.html


22 posted on 07/17/2018 12:32:35 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: GOPJ; Jane Long; TADSLOS; RitaOK; HarleyLady27; poconopundit; Grampa Dave; stephenjohnbanker; ...

cbsnews.com

March 16, 2015, 7:00 AM
Chinese company pledged $2 million to Clinton Foundation in 2013
By JULIANNA GOLDMAN CBS NEWS

A CBS News investigation has found that at least one foreign company with close ties to its government has been giving generously to the foundation run by Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton.

Since its founding, the Clinton Foundation has invested millions each year for work in fighting AIDS and empowering women, but its recent uptick in donations from foreign governments has been raising questions about the potential influence on Hillary Clinton, as she gets ready to run for president.

The foundation has raised at least $42 million from foreign governments - and according to an analysis by CBS News - at least $170 million from foreign entities and individuals.

One donor - Rilin Enterprises- pledged $2 million in 2013 to the Clinton Foundation’s endowment. The company is a privately-held Chinese construction and trade conglomerate and run by billionaire Wang Wenliang, who is also a delegate to the Chinese parliament. Public records show the firm has spent $1.4 million since 2012, lobbying Congress and the State Department. The firm owns a strategic port along the border with North Korea and was also one of the contractors that built the Chinese embassy in Washington.

That contract is a direct tie to the Chinese government, according to Jim Mann, who has written several books on China’s relationship with the U.S.

With “embassy construction, one of the most important tasks is making sure that there are no bugs there,” he said. “So you want to have the closest security and intelligence connections with and approval of the person or company that’s going to build your embassy.”

The Clinton Foundation largely stopped taking money from foreign governments when Hillary Clinton became secretary of state in 2009. It resumed the practice once she left in 2013, but never stopped taking money from foreign companies or individuals.

In a statement, the foundation said that should Hillary Clinton run for president “we will continue to ensure the Foundation’s policies and practices regarding support from international partners are appropriate, just as we did when she served as Secretary of State.”

But since the foundation never stopped taking money from foreign companies and individuals, even if the foundation were to return to the policies and practices in place while she was secretary, the launch of a Clinton presidential bid wouldn’t preclude an individual, like Wang - with direct ties to the government - from contributing money. Further complicating Clinton’s ties to her family foundation, is that when she was secretary of state, the foundation had a built-in infrastructure - in the State Department and the White House - to vet donations from foreign entities. That mechanism hasn’t traditionally existed within a presidential candidate’s campaign stricture.

The Rilin donation came at a time when the Clintons were aggressively raising money and when it was no secret she was readying a run for the White House. It underscores the types of questions the Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign will have to answer as they reevaluate their policies.

“If the point is you are not going to take money from foreign governments, then his construction company is as close to not just the Chinese government, but its Ministry of State Security as they could possibly be,” said Mann.

“Indirectly the Clinton Foundation has political influence, that’s why people give to it,” said Mann. “People give to the Clinton Foundation particularly because it is the Clintons and because they are prominent politicians in the United States.”

A Rilin spokesperson said Wang “was asked to join the NPC [National People’s Congress], a largely ceremonial body, as a delegate in 2013.”

Wang has given tens of millions of dollars to other organizations, including New York University, where he’s a member of its Board of Trustees. In a statement, the Rilin spokesperson said, “Mr. Wang has a long history of generous philanthropic giving to institutions of higher education and organizations that work on and promote global relations. The Clinton Foundation is one of the many organizations Mr. Wang has donated to.”

Rilin, however, has a history of complaints since 2001 regarding its treatment of embassy construction workers. Documents obtained by CBS News show Rilin was cited in 2011 and 2013 by officials in Jersey City, New Jersey for housing workers in unsafe, crowded and unsanitary conditions. The company settled the 2011 violations for $6,066 and says all the charges related to the 2013 inspection were dismissed.

Among the Clinton Foundation foreign donors, there are also a number that have come under fire from US agencies. Barclays Capital has given at least $1 million dollars to the foundation and last year, HSBC Holdings gave the foundation at least $500,000. Both British banks are under Justice Department investigations.

Asked about donations from foreign governments last week, Hillary Clinton defended the foundation’s work, saying “I think that to people who want to support the foundation, know full well what it is we stand for and what we’re working on.”

Campaign finance laws prohibit foreign interests from investing in U.S. elections to prevent foreigners from buying political influence at home, but those rules don’t apply to the Clinton Foundation. Bill Allison, senior policy analyst at the Sunlight Foundation, a campaign finance watchdog group, says the Clinton foundation is a unique non-profit that can’t be separated from the US political system.

“If there is foreign money coming into the Clinton Foundation, it will raise the question of - is the president going to be doing favors for a foreign business, a foreign government, a foreign individual? And you just cannot have that in the American system of government, where the president is supposed to represent the American people,” Allison said.

Clinton officials say that many major institutions - financial, media, industrial or otherwise - have been subject to investigation at some point. They said many of these organizations are capable of significant and positive impact and the investigations alone shouldn’t preclude them from contributing to improving lives.

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23 posted on 07/17/2018 12:35:29 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Liz

Of course, Hillary left an “open door” on her server, in return for
a 2 million dollar donation to her corrupt Clinton Foundation.


24 posted on 07/17/2018 12:39:05 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Trust Sessions" Yeah Right.)
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To: Liz

And Mr Bill sold MIRV andother missile tech to China in the 90s openly because we were paying China to launch our satellites then and they said they needed the tech to launch them better. That was the official reason. The unofficial reason was that Mr Bill got a lot of money in his private accounts for it.


25 posted on 07/17/2018 12:40:54 PM PDT by arthurus (|\/| |_ |/\| M L W I |-| |_| _|_<>)
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To: Liz

And Mr Bill sold MIRV andother missile tech to China in the 90s openly because we were paying China to launch our satellites then and they said they needed the tech to launch them better. That was the official reason. The unofficial reason was that Mr Bill got a lot of money in his private accounts for it.


26 posted on 07/17/2018 12:41:03 PM PDT by arthurus (|\/| |_ |/\| M L W I |-| |_| _|_<>)
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To: Liz

Ya know, there’s greed, and there’s clintonism. What are they gonna do with all that money they’ve grubbed up? Ya can’t take it with ya, ya know...


27 posted on 07/17/2018 12:44:35 PM PDT by W. (.44 Magnum. what)
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Chinese communist Ng Lap Seng circa 2016----shakes hands after donating to Bill Clinton's campaign.

28 posted on 07/17/2018 1:01:40 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: b4its2late

I want to know the story about what Putin said yesterday about the US INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY FUNNELLING $400 MILLION to HILLIARY’s CAMPAIGN!!!! WHAT is THAT all about??? COULD that be TRUE??


29 posted on 07/17/2018 1:03:13 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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Bill Allison, senior policy analyst at the Sunlight Foundation, a campaign finance watchdog group: “If there is foreign money coming into the Clinton Foundation, it will raise the question of - is the president going to be doing favors for a foreign business, a foreign government, a foreign individual? And you just cannot have that in the American system of government, where the president is supposed to represent the American people,” Allison said.

nypost.com

Then-NYAG Eric Schneiderman Let Clinton Foundation skip identifying foreign donors
By Bob Fredericks September 6, 2016 | 9:37pm

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman gave the Clinton Foundation a pass on identifying foreign donors in its charitable filings — making it impossible to know if it got any special favors while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, according to a report Tuesday.

Scripps News found that the foundation and its subsidiary, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, took in $225 million in government donations between 2010 and 2014. New York’s charity law clearly states: “Organizations that received a contribution or grant from a government agency during the reporting period shall include the name of each agency from which contributions were received and the amount of each contribution.” But both the foundation and the CHAI failed to do that, and Schneiderman, a member of Clinton’s “leadership council” in New York and a fierce critic of Donald Trump, did nothing about it.

On its website, the Clinton Foundation reveals its foreign donors, but using only broad ranges, such as $5 million to $10 million, without any time frames. The IRS doesn’t require such disclosures.In 2009, Clinton’s first year at the State Department, the foundation disclosed a lump sum of $122 million in foreign-government donations in its New York paperwork, posting the total amount on a form that requires all charities to “list each government contribution separately.”

Clinton spokesman Josh Schwerin said, “This is a ridiculous accusation. The Clinton Foundation goes above and beyond the disclosure requirements by listing every donor on their website and updating the list quarterly.” Schneiderman’s office said, “The Clinton Foundation’s disclosures regarding funding from foreign governments are in compliance with New York law.”

Other charities complied, including the George W. Bush foundation, which reported receiving $5 million from Saudi Arabia and $500,000 from Kuwait.

Hillary and the smirking Eric Schneiderman (right).
E/S was recently ousted from office after charges he spat at,
choked and slapped women he was intimate with.

30 posted on 07/17/2018 1:05:56 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: b4its2late

“Did Clinton & Obama’s use of private email, open a door to Chinese intelligence?”

Short answer: Yes.

Long answer: Oh, H3LL, Yes!


31 posted on 07/17/2018 1:06:00 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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Tracking the 2016 Presidential Money Race
December 9, 2016
By Bill Allison, Mira Rojanasakul, Brittany Harris and Cedric Sam

He didn’t win the money race, but Donald Trump will be the next president of the U.S. In the primaries and general election, he defied conventional wisdom, besting better financed candidates by dominating the air waves for free. Trump also put to use his own cash, as well as the assets and infrastructure of his businesses, in unprecedented fashion.

He donated $66 million of his own money, flew across the country in his private jet, and used his resorts to stage campaign events. At the same time, the billionaire was able to draw about $280 million from small donors giving $200 or less. Super-PACs, which can take contributions unlimited in size, were similarly skewed toward his opponent, Hillary Clinton. Ultimately, Trump won the presidency despite having raised less than any major party presidential nominee since John McCain in 2008, the last to accept federal funds to pay for his general election contest.

Clinton and her super-PACs raised a total of $1.2 billion, less than President Barack Obama raised in 2012. Her sophisticated fundraising operation included a small army of wealthy donors who wrote seven-figure checks, hundreds of bundlers who raised $100,000 or more from their own networks, and a small-dollar donor operation modeled on the one used by Obama in 2012.

She spent heavily on television advertising and her get-out-the-vote operation, but in the end, her fundraising edge wasn’t enough to overcome Trump’s ability to dominate headlines and the airwaves.

On Dec. 8, campaigns and super-PACs filed their post-election reports on fundraising and spending with the Federal Election Commission from Oct. 20 through Nov. 28. Here’s where they stood at the end of the race:

—snip—

REST HERE https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2016-presidential-campaign-fundraising/


32 posted on 07/17/2018 1:15:50 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: b4its2late

If the truth were really known, is there any government who doesn’t have Hillary’s emails? (even our own intelligence agencies).


33 posted on 07/17/2018 1:31:56 PM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: Liz
It seems to be common knowledge now that [her] server was set up to execute pay for info. There was also access given to others through email sharing. IE George Webb posted this today showing an email from hume to Hume with password and login instruction to her laptop and specific domains. Why would someone email instructions to oneself?

Day 20.1 Did Browder Run The Ziff Bros Hacking Team In Moscow? Video will load at the email point.

34 posted on 07/17/2018 1:37:26 PM PDT by GregNH (If you can't fight, please find a good place to hide!)
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To: GregNH
Should read "from Huma to Huma"
35 posted on 07/17/2018 1:38:36 PM PDT by GregNH (If you can't fight, please find a good place to hide!)
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To: b4its2late

Omg thank you for saying charted not chartered


36 posted on 07/17/2018 2:09:17 PM PDT by Rebelrage ("To crush your enemies -- See them driven, and to hear the lamentation of their women)
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To: dsc
“Did Clinton & Obama’s use of private email, open a door to Chinese intelligence?” Is a duck’s butt watertight?

I like your response better than the one I was going to post!

37 posted on 07/17/2018 2:24:28 PM PDT by libertylover (I'm not arguing with you; I'm just explaining why I'm right and you're wrong.)
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To: libertylover

Got it from a show called Letterkenny.

Warning: bad language.


38 posted on 07/17/2018 2:30:21 PM PDT by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: PGR88

Bttt!


39 posted on 07/17/2018 7:09:42 PM PDT by Pagey (8 years of MISERY, Thanks to Valerie Jarrett. Wretched human.)
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To: WKUHilltopper

There ya go.


40 posted on 07/17/2018 7:26:13 PM PDT by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the SEALs of Extortion 17 - and God Bless The United States of America.)
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