[Daily Caller] A State Department official is accused of accepting tens of thousands of dollars in cash payments, vacations, an apartment, and Apple electronics from spies for the Chinese government and lying about it to the FBI, the federal government revealed on Wednesday. Here, please use our computer.
According to the Justice Department, Candace Marie Claiborne, a 60-year-old State Department employee, accepted gifts from Chinese agents for more than five years and, when finally caught, instructed co-conspirators to erase evidence of her alleged crimes. See Candace's personal journal and laptop for names and offices of co-conspirators.
"Claiborne failed to report repeated contacts with two intelligence agents of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), even though these agents provided tens of thousands of dollars in gifts and benefits to Claiborne and her family over five years," the Justice Department said in a statement.
According to a federal affidavit, Claiborne began working as an office management specialist at the State Department in 1999. She then took jobs overseas, including at embassies and consulates in Iraq, Sudan and China. She maintained a Top Secret security clearance, which required her to report any contacts with people believed to be affiliated with foreign intelligence agencies. But Claiborne failed to make those disclosures, according to the affidavit.
Chinese government agents wired cash to Clairborne’s bank account, bought her an Apple iPhone and laptop, provided Chinese New Year’s gifts, meals, vacations, tuition to a Chinese fashion school, a fully furnished apartment and a monthly stipend, the federal documents state. Yes, most recruited sources receive some sort of payment. Veteran sources receive monthly or quarterly stipends. Electronic deposit does appear a bit bold however.
Claiborne also appears to have believed that the agents funding her lifestyle were "spies." Yes, Candace, and so does everyone else.
The affidavit states that Claiborne wrote in a journal that she could "generate 20k in 1 year" through her affiliation with the Chinese agent. Shortly after, she was wired $2,480 and tasked with "providing internal U.S. Government analyses on a U.S.-Sino Strategic Economic Dialogue that had just concluded." Thoughtful of Claiborne to keep a journal of her espionage activities. Not very bright, but thoughtful nonetheless.
After being contacted by the State Department and FBI about her relationship with the spies, Claiborne instructed her co-conspirators "to delete evidence connecting her to the PRC agents."
Claiborne is listed in the State Department’s most recent telephone directory as an employee in the Office of Caucasus Affairs and Regional Conflicts.
"Candace Marie Claiborne is a U.S. State Department employee who possesses a Top Secret security clearance and allegedly failed to report her contacts with Chinese foreign intelligence agents who provided her with thousands of dollars of gifts and benefits," Acting Assistant Attorney General Mary McCord said in a statement announcing the unsealed indictment.
"Claiborne used her position and her access to sensitive diplomatic data for personal profit. Pursuing those who imperil our national security for personal gain will remain a key priority of the National Security Division."
Claiborne was arrested by the FBI on Wednesday and made her first appearance in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. A hearing was set for April 18. She faces up to 20 years in prison for obstructing an official proceeding. Difficult to believe actually. We all knew her here at the SDFCU (State Department Federal Credit Union.)
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
A new Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that American President Donald Trump has ordered his Department of Justice (DoJ) to begin arresting members of a massive spy ring infiltrated throughout the US government since the 1990’s by both former President Bill Clinton and his wife, and former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton—and that began, yesterday, with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arresting one of Hillary Clinton’s top Department of State (DoS) aides named Candace Claiborne for being a spy for Communist China. [Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]
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The Trump-Ruskie thing is just a lefty distraction. Maybe HRC, WJC, and BHO should be the ones being investigated for collusion and espionage connected with Russia (uranium deal) and China (giving them classified technology) and Iran (secret nuke deal and lots of taxpayer boodle)?
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operations (AMO) detected Monday a go-fast vessel containing 3545 pounds (1,608 kilograms) of cocaine, which was intercepted 60 nautical miles southeast of Dorado, Puerto Rico. A Glock 9mm pistol and 18 rounds of 9mm ammunition were also seized during the arrests.
[Daily News] Serial killer and former nurse's aide Donald Harvey succumbed to his injuries on Thursday, two days after he was badly beaten in an Ohio prison.
Harvey, who was 64, was serving 15 life sentences after agreeing to a plea deal in 1987 to avoid the death penalty. He would have been eligible for parole in his 90s, if he lived that long.
He is believed to have killed as many as 87 people during his 18-year murder spree. Harvey used cyanide, rat poison and arsenic to kill his victims. Some of the patients were suffocated when he let their oxygen tanks run out. He was finally caught after a medical examiner sniffed cyanide while performing an autopsy.
Harvey claimed he was trying to end his patients' suffering as he killed patients in Cincinnati and London, Kentucky but prosecutors disagreed.
"He killed because he liked to kill," former Ohio prosecutor Arthur Ney Jr. once said.
[NYP] President Trump will welcome his Chinese counterpart for a weekend at Mar-a-Lago next month, the White House and Chinese Foreign Ministry confirmed on Thursday.
"President Donald J. Trump will host President Xi Jinping of China at Mar-a-Lago April 6‐7, 2017," said the White House in a press release. "This will be the first meeting between President Trump and President Xi. The two leaders will discuss global, regional, and bilateral issues of mutual concern."
The president and First Lady Melania Trump will also host Xi and Madame Peng Liyuan at a dinner on the the first night of the visit.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang didn’t provide additional details.
North Korean leader that wants to strike the lower 48 states, Japan, and South Korean capital simultaineuosly to annex the entire peninsula and cripple retaliation.
[DAWN] The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... is unhappy Britannia is leaving, European Council President Donald Tusk told news hounds on Wednesday after receiving formal notification from London.
But the other 27 states are now more united and will protect their interests in "difficult negotiations' before Brexit in 2019, he added.
Concluding his brief remarks to the media in Brussels, the former Polish prime minister said he had little to add about Britannia but concluded: "We already miss you. Thank you and goodbye."
Brexit divorce papers
Prime Minister Theresa May filed formal Brexit divorce papers on Wednesday, pitching the United Kingdom into the unknown and triggering years of uncertain negotiations that will test the cohesion of the European Union.
Nine months after Britons voted to leave, May notified EU Council President Donald Tusk in a letter that the UK is quitting the bloc it joined in 1973.
The prime minister, an initial opponent of Brexit who won the top job in the political turmoil that followed the referendum vote, now has two years to settle the terms of the divorce before it comes into effect in late March 2019.
"The United Kingdom is leaving the European Union," May told politicians in the British parliament "This is an historic moment from which there can be no turning back."
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Hit 'em harder - stop sending the money to Brussels.
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EUROPEAN Union boss Jean-Claude Juncker this afternoon issued a jaw-dropping threat to the United States, saying he could campaign to break up the country in revenge for Donald Trump’s supportive comments about Brexit.
The EU is rapidly approaching Duchy of Fenwick territory but without the gravitas.
[Philadelphia Business Journal] New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie may finally get his name called by President Donald Trump, who is reportedly set to announce later this week the Garden State Republican as the head of a drug commission focused on combating opioid abuse. Big Pharma will not be pleased.
The appointment is one of a series of updates the Trump Administration will unveil as part of the White House Office of American Innovation, a new White House office that will be led by the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, according to the Washington Post.
Viewed internally as a SWAT team of strategic consultants, the office will be staffed by former business executives and is designed to infuse fresh thinking into Washington, float above the daily political grind and create a lasting legacy for a president still searching for signature achievements.
Christie has spent the last few weeks working with Kushner, the report said, although there is "reported tension between the two."
The New Jersey governor had served as an adviser to Trump in the weeks following his election win and ahead of his inauguration. Many expected Christie to get a high-ranking role, like U.S. Attorney General, after he was passed over for vice president. More recently, Christie reportedly turned down an offer to be Secretary of Labor after Andrew Puzder's nomination fell apart.
Further details of the appointment ‐ like what it would mean for Christie's last year as governor ‐ are unknown.
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a president still searching for signature achievements
Reversing his predecessor's phone'n'pen initiatives is as much a signature achievement as making them was for his predecessor. Beyond that, we shall see.
He is as close to an untouchable wise guy as you can get.
If the deal is sweet enough he will serve admirably as Trumps personal political body guard and enforcer against the left. Crisco will play right tackle on the offense and in the middle of the line on the defense.
Trump needs more help fending off Deep Swamp and at last he is putting together his political praetorium guard.
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Big Pharma will not be pleased. However, should Christie clamp down, Big Pharma has it covered, they have developed an expensive drug to cope with opiod addiction. It is called Naloxazone (Naloxone) and is an irreversible μ-opioid receptor antagonist.
[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: A man allegedly killed his 15-year-old daughter in the name of ’honour’ in a rural part of the capital on Tuesday, police said.
The suspect later confessed to the police and asked them to come to his home and arrest him, they said.
The incident took place in Golra.
The police quoted the victim’s mother as saying that her husband, a butcher, came home during the day and asked her to fetch medicine from a pharmacy.
When she turned, she said, her husband told her he had strangled their daughter.
She said that he told her he had informed the police about the ’honour’ killing, and that they should come to their home and arrest him.
The victim’s mother lodged a complaint with the police and a case was registered on charges of murder, they said.
The police added that the suspect had already confessed to the murder and was in police custody.
They said the suspect is from Mandi Bahauddin and moved to Islamabad with his family around four years ago.
The police claim that the victim befriended a young man who lived in their neighbourhood. When the suspect discovered the victim’s friend had visited her at home, he told her to sever ties with him and not to let him come to their house.
They said the victim’s friend then visited the house again, and as a result the suspect killed his daughter.
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Moved to P. 3: Non-WoT. While military sales and non-military aid do buy friendships -- Nicaragua and Rwanda are now happy to be friends of Israel -- no active mayhem between Israelis and bad guys is involved.
Military exports grew by $800 million in 2016, bringing in $6.5 billion, SIBAT, the military exports unit of the Defense Ministry, said on Wednesday.
SIBAT director Brig.-Gen (res.) Michel Ben-Baruch said the majority of the new contracts comes from increased defense budgets in European and North American countries, due to the increased focus on terrorism following dozens of attacks on the two continents by "lone wolves" and Islamic State supporters.
"The increase in the volume of new contracts signed expresses a global trend of pulling out of the recession, especially in Europe and North America, and increased defense budgets in the face of growing security challenges," read a statement by SIBAT.
These dozens of significant contracts allowed "the continued trend of strengthening Israel’s place in the global defense market," it continued. Used to be, they all wanted Jewish doctors
[FOX] Over a six-year period, Ivy League schools have received tens of billions in tax dollars, bringing in more money from taxpayers than from undergraduate student tuition. In fact, they received more federal cash than 16 state governments.
The stunning numbers are all part of a new report, first seen by Fox News, released Wednesday by Open the Books -- a non-profit group whose stated mission is to capture and post online all disclosed spending at every level of government.
The 43-page report shows the massive amount of money flowing into not-for-profit Ivy League schools, including payments and entitlements, costing taxpayers more than $41 billion from fiscal year 2010 to fiscal year 2015.
The spending is controversial because these eight schools -- Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University and Yale University -- have enormous resources at their fingertips, including endowment funds (money raised from donors) in 2015 exceeding $119 billion. Take that total and split it up among Ivy League undergrads and it comes out to $2 million each.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Daily Caller] A State Department official is accused of accepting tens of thousands of dollars in cash payments, vacations, an apartment, and Apple electronics from spies for the Chinese government and lying about it to the FBI, the federal government revealed on Wednesday.
[Daily News] Serial killer and former nurse's aide Donald Harvey succumbed to his injuries on Thursday, two days after he was badly beaten in an Ohio prison.
[DAWN] The 
[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: A man allegedly killed his 15-year-old daughter in the name of ’honour’ in a rural part of the capital on Tuesday, police said.
[FOX] Over a six-year period, Ivy League schools have received tens of billions in tax dollars, bringing in more money from taxpayers than from undergraduate student tuition. In fact, they received more federal cash than 16 state governments. 
