Garland Shuts Down Cointel After Xi Secures Power Base

Vox Day believes that Hu Jintao’s public disgracing together with Xi securing his leadership apparently for life, is prompting a GAE abandonment of its effort to switch flags from D.C. to Beijing. As proof, the Chinese markets… unquestionably where the banksters would apply their leverage… are suffering a sudden collapse.

I’ve found confirmation on the criminal justice side.

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26 October 2022

Ignore all the rhetoric and the neo-liberal economic assumptions and focus on what the various parties mentioned are doing. What’s actually taking place is that The Empire That Never Ended, which intended to transfer its global center of power from Washington DC to Beijing, has finally abandoned its attempts to do so.

Xi Xinping was seen as an impediment, not an implacable obstacle, but the confirmation of his continuing power in the CPC and his ongoing anti-corruption campaign means that the imperial plans for China have failed.

And as part of that abandonment…

Garland announces arrest of Chinese spies who stole confidential information

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By Adam Schrader, 24 October 2022

China has been spying on us?! Gasp, nooo! I’m shocked!

Pro-tip, FBI: look for the ETHNIC CHINESE NATIONALS WITH CHINESE PASSPORTS AND CHINA-DWELLING FAMILY MEMBERS who want to work in our academic, tech and military sectors. China is a hostile nation, yes? Then why have we been letting them in? Looking at YOU, FBI!

Strike that. Looking at YOU, universities charging out-of-state tuitions for probable Chinese student spies!

Oct. 24 (UPI) — U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Monday the arrest and indictment of Chinese spies accused of stealing confidential information and harassing Chinese victims living in the United States to return to China.

“Over the past week, the Justice Department has taken several actions to disrupt criminal activity by individuals working on behalf of the government of the People’s Republic of China,” Garland said.

Hmm. Has anything interesting happened in China over the past week?

Garland said that earlier Monday that a complaint was unsealed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging two Chinese intelligence officers with attempting to obstruct, influence and impede a criminal prosecution of a telecommunications company based in China.

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“The defendants believed they had recruited the U.S. employee as an asset, but in fact, the individual they recruited was a double agent working on behalf of the FBI,” Garland said.

Those defendants, identified as Dong He and Zheng Wang, allegedly paid a bribe of $41,000 in Bitcoin to the double agent to obtain non-public information, including files from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District.

Garland said that the Chinese spies had sought confidential information on witnesses, trial evidence and potential new charges to be brought against the company.

“The double agent provided the defendants with documents that appeared to present some of the information they sought. In fact, the documents were prepared by the U.S. government for this investigation and did not reveal actual meetings, communications or strategies,” Garland said.

“This was an egregious attempt by PRC intelligence officers to shield a PRC-based company from accountability and to undermine the integrity of our judicial system.”

And the FBI knew about it since at least 2019, just like me. Everybody has known for years that Chinese intelligence has had a free hand in American affairs thanks to our inexplicably cooperative government. Paging Eric Swalwell…

I’m not angry at the FBI for not grabbing the Chink spies earlier. Domestic counterintelligence against foreign threats is something they’re supposed to do. Feeding disinfo to such an organized intelligence operation is more valuable than a couple arrests. Hence the sealed indictments.

It WAS a counterintelligence operation, yes? Because the FBI surely wouldn’t take a Chinese bribe to look the other way, set up a sealed indictment as an insurance policy and trigger it now to prevent Xi blackmailing them. Nah. Even though Chinese intelligence has managed to steal a LOT of tech over the years from the FBI’s home turf.

Anyway, now they’re burning the operation and shutting it down. That’s only a good idea if they expect Huawei to not be operating in USA for much longer.

I *am* angry, however, that a multi-year cointel operation resulted in only two perps nabbed:

Dong He and Zheng Wang were each charged with attempting to obstruct a criminal prosecution.

He also was charged with money laundering for the Bitcoin bribe and faces up to 40 years in prison if convicted.

That’s the best they had after four years? And the Bitcoin charge won’t even stick. I have questions that will never be answered.

An indictment also was unsealed Monday in New Jersey charging four individuals including three Chinese intelligence officers working with the Ministry of State Security with conspiring to act in the United States as illegal agents on behalf of a foreign government.

Two anti-China busts on Monday. Hmm.

Those defendants were identified as Wang Lin, 59; Bi Hongwei, age unknown; Dong Ting, aka Chelsea Dong, 40; and Wang Qiang, 55.

The spies allegedly used an affiliation with the purported Institute for International Studies at the Ocean University of China as their cover.

I see the Confucius Institutes are still here, just rebranded. They were brazen PRC intel operations publicly placed in American colleges and permitted to operate until August 2020. They were not the only such organizations.

“The indictment alleges that between 2008 and 2018, the defendants used the cover of a purported academic institute to target, coopt and direct individuals in the United States to further the PRC’s intelligence mission,” Garland said.

Garland said that those directives included attempts to procure equipment and technology from the United States and ship them to China, as well as attempts to stop protests in the United States he said “would have been embarrassing to the Chinese government.”

An eleven-year cointel operation, burned. And resulting in so few arrests that I must wonder what was REALLY going on.

Separately, the Justice Department charged seven people in New York for working on behalf of China “in a multi-year campaign of threats and harassment” to force a U.S. resident to return to China.

Two of those defendants were arrested last Thursday and identified as Quanzhong An, 55, and Guangyang An, 34.

The other defendants — who remain at large — are Tian Peng, Chenghua Chen, Chunde Ming, Xuexin Hou and Weidong Yuan.

The lack of sealed indictments and failure to collar most of the accused, indicates that this was a rushed decision.

Garland said that those activities were part of a Chinese initiative called Operation Foxhunt to locate and bring back to China alleged fugitives who fled to foreign countries, including the United States.

The victim was identified as John Doe in the court documents.

Yep, rushed. There are surely plenty of dissidents who would happily press charges. If China is already trying to kidnap them back then they have nothing to lose and publicity might even be a deterrent.

Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said Monday that the cases take place “against a backdrop of malign activity” by China that includes espionage, harassment and obstruction of the U.S. justice system.

And kicking out the pro-GAE Hu Jintao.

Monaco added that the cases “make clear that Chinese agents will not hesitate to break the law and violate international norms in the process.”

Phone call for you, Mizz Monaco. Nordstream on Line Two.

It’s impossible to know which way the intelligence was flowing in these operations. What is known, however, is that two longstanding and potentially useful operations are being shut down immediately after Xi’s appointment-for-life along with a hastily executed mass arrest to embellish the headline. God knows it needed help:

In total, 13 people were charged in three separate cases in the harassment and espionage schemes, the Justice Department said.

That’ll put the fear of Uncle Sam in Pooh Bear for sure. “After fourteen years of investigation, we’ve unmasked all thirteen of your spies & agents in America! And eight of them have already been caught!”

In closing, let me give a shout-out to True the Vote for doing what the FBI in all these secret-squirrel cointel operations didn’t do: uncover that Konnech Election Company founder Eugene Yu allegedly tried to run American elections from servers in China. While stealing the identities of poll workers.

THAT is how completely China has undermined the United States government. Now that USA is severing economic links with China (and China is severing economic links with USA, incidentally), I look forward to witnessing, for the first time in my life, mass arrests of spies and traitors against my country.

Hmm, Mr. Swalwell has not answered his page.