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http://bit.ly/2IMhRtc This seems like a pretty big development, although I’m sure it won’t elicit much mention outside of Fox News and conservative sources. New texts between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page have emerged and they show something very troubling. Text messages between former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page indicate they discussed using briefings to the Trump team after the 2016 election to identify people they could “develop for potential relationships,” track lines of questioning and “assess” changes in “demeanor” – language one GOP lawmaker called “more evidence” of irregular conduct in the original Russia probe. The (trigger warning) spying that went on during the 2016 campaign involving the Trump campaign is already bad enough. But to now learn that the scheme was set to continue after the election, even after Trump became President, is pretty incredible. By what authority does the FBI or any executive bureaucracy have the power to secretly surveil a President base...

http://bit.ly/2IKvF7q Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Finance Committee, and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, have new information, including Strzok-Page text messages, they believe would be helpful to Attorney General William Barr as he investigates alleged spying on the Trump campaign. "We bring to your attention information that may assist your review," the two senators wrote to Barr on Thursday, April 25. The new information includes newly scrutinized text messages exchanged in November 2016 by FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page. First, in the course of our oversight work we have reviewed certain text messages that may show potential attempts by the FBI to conduct surveillance of President-elect Trump's transition team. In text messages exchanged between former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and former FBI Attorney Lisa Page, the two discussed the possibility of developing "potential relationships...

http://bit.ly/2Pyrwnv There’s been a lot of words written about this whole affair, but very little clarity has been achieved. I hope to provide some clarity with this post, where I put together information I’ve found on the internet to demonstrate that the DNC hack (if there even was a hack) was not the source of the Wikileaks DNC dump. First, we need to look at the timeline. “Late April, 2016” – DNC IT staff notice unusual network activity and notify Executives. Within 24 hours Crowdstrike, a security firm that investigates and remediates hacks, is called in and installs software to detect the source of the leaks. June 12, 2016 – Julian Assange announces that Wikileaks is planning to release leaks of Hillary’s emails. June 14, 2016 – The Washington Post breaks the story that the DNC was hacked. They claimed that the hackers “stole opposition research on Trump”. June 15, 2016 – Crowdstrike released their report on the hack. They claim that “two separate Russian intelligence-affiliated ...

http://bit.ly/2IWNIGR To this day, the DNC servers have not been forensically inspected by the FBI so we have no proof the servers were even hacked, and if hacked, by whom? Hillary’s fake Russia dossier and Crowdstrike’s report blaming Russia for hacking the DNC server is what the Special Counsel witch hunt hinges on. It’s all fake. The crime scene, the DNC servers, have yet to even be examined. James Comey admitted in a June 2017 testimony that the FBI failed to examine the DNC servers and relied on a 3rd party contracted by the DNC [Crowdstrike] confirming the Russians hacked the server. It appears Robert Mueller has also relied on Crowdstrike’s analysis the Russians hacked the DNC server because his spox declined to comment. Robert Mueller knows the Crowdstrike analyst who ran the forensics on the DNC server, in fact, the analyst worked for Mueller when he was the Director of the FBI; Mueller personally promoted him. “The Crowdstrike analyst who ran the forensics on the DNC servers ...

https://yhoo.it/2PymvLH China poses the most serious intelligence threat to the United States and is seeking to "steal its way up the economic ladder" at US expense, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Friday. Wray, speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in Washington, said China poses a "multi-layered" threat to US interests. "Economic espionage dominates our counter-intelligence program today," the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation said. "More than ever, adversaries target our nation's assets, our information and ideas, our innovation, our research and development, our technology. "And no country poses a broader, more severe intelligence collection threat than China," Wray said. "China has pioneered a societal approach to stealing innovation in any way it can from a wide array of businesses, universities and organizations," he said. "They're doing it through Chinese intelligence services, through...

https://yhoo.it/2DwoETl “We are looking at a more intelligence-led, investigative approach to leaking,” Sir Mark Sedwill, the cabinet secretary, told MPs last December after a torrent of Brexit-related leaks from cabinet meetings. He continued: “Rather than simply treating it incident by incident. I hope we will have a chilling effect … A more intelligence-led assessment approach to identifying patterns, timings, etc, to enable us to have a better chance of identifying the prolific culprits.” Sedwill told the Public Administration Select Committee he was “deeply concerned” by these leaks, saying they undermined the vital principles of collective responsibility: candour, confidentiality and commitment. Surprisingly, he revealed that Theresa May had never asked him to launch a leak inquiry, though said he had done so on his own account. Sedwill’s new approach has not exactly proved a roaring success. He is in the thick of it after this week’s spectacular leak of the National Security Cou...

https://yhoo.it/2W99vyE Iranian Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi boasted last week, without details, that his department had uncovered nearly 300 “CIA agents” and other Western spies around the world in an ongoing mole hunt, as well as disrupted violent terror cells and anti-revolutionary groups, according to reporting from Iranian media outlets. Alavi, a midranking conservative cleric, was appointed to his role in Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security in 2013 following the swearing in of President Hassan Rouhani. His remarks, likely intended to boost the role of the Intelligence Ministry within Iran, came on the heels of increasing U.S. pressure on the Islamic regime, including the State Department’s recent designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), an arm of the Iranian government, as a terrorist group, as well as recent additional sanctions. He told observers during Friday prayers that his ministry had discovered agents working for both the CIA and Britis...

http://bit.ly/2GJ0vLu Li Rui, a former aide to Chairman Mao, took notes. In his diaries, he documented the inner workings of the ruling Communist Party, including everything from what he witnessed during the Cultural Revolution to Mao’s swear words. The diaries are being held by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, but a lawsuit filed in China is now seeking to prevent them from seeing the light of day. Li, who died at the age of 101 in February, was a personal secretary to Mao Zedong and later a critic of the Chinese leadership, a rarity among China’s political elite. Li started keeping a diary in 1935, when he was an 18-year-old Communist activist, and only stopped in the spring of 2018, when he was hospitalized. His daughter, Li Nanyang, has given the diaries to the Hoover Institution, a public policy think tank. But according to the daughter, her stepmother and Li’s second wife Zhang Yuzhen has filed a lawsuit against her at Beijing’s Xicheng district court, demanding tha...

http://bit.ly/2ILwGMq Russian media sources have confirmed a major fire is ongoing at Krasnoyarsk’s Machine-Building Plant (also commonly known as "Krasmash") in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, after stunning images and video began appearing on social media Friday. The Krasmash plant is known for producing some of the most advanced missiles in Russia's ballistic arsenal. The fire is reported to have first engulfed the roof of the sprawling facility, but is as yet of unknown origin. State media sources have cited local emergency authorities to say the fire is ranked at a "category four" — representing the highest emergency response and difficulty for extinguishing a fire. Firefighters told Sputnik the blaze has "reached 5,000 square meters (54,000 square feet), and a section of the roof has collapsed. Video footage showed thick black smoke coming from the blaze which appears multiple blocks in width hovering over the city. Russian emergency authori...

http://bit.ly/2ZBu2OI The father of two of the suspected Easter suicide bombers was arrested Thursday on suspicion of aiding his sons, Sri Lanka's prime minister said, as businesses and religious leaders worried about a new attack four days after blasts killed more than 350 people. Across Colombo and in Negombo, the seaside city north of the capital where a bombing killed 110 people, residents and office workers stayed indoors and closed up shops, leaving both cities unusually quiet. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told The Associated Press that there were still suspects at large and they may have explosives. Police, meanwhile, issued a public appeal for three women and one man suspected of involvement in the Islamic State group-claimed attack. Former navy chief Jayanath Colombage, now a counterterrorism expert, said it was unclear whether the father or his home, where an explosion Sunday killed three police officers, had been under surveillance ahead of the attacks. Wickremesi...

http://bit.ly/2W1YQG2 Drones are in the skies of Chula Vista and helping police investigate complaints, according to video released Wednesday by the Chula Vista Police Department. Two drivers were arrested in February after a drone was launched to Park Way following the report of a driver trying to run down a motorcyclist. In the video, a vehicle appears to turn toward the motorcyclist, coming close to hitting the bike. Soon after, a Chula Vista police officer arrives to the scene and begins to investigate the complaint. MAP: Save $$$ at San Diego's Cheapest Gas Stations The drones, equipped with cameras, have been used in more than 400 incidents in the first five months of the program, according to CVPD. They attribute 59 arrests to the new tool. The technology assists police officers and the Chula Vista Fire Department in “critical incidents” like searching for missing persons, traffic collisions or wildfires. In the incident captured on video in February, the vehicle driver was ...

https://cnn.it/2XSDATV The mayor of a Texas city near the US-Mexico border was arrested and charged Thursday with "orchestrating an organized illegal voting scheme" to win his 2017 election, the state's attorney general said. Edinburg Mayor Richard Molina and his wife are alleged to have had numerous voters change their addresses to places they didn't live, including Molina's apartment complex, so they could cast their ballot for him, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Thursday. Molina's party affiliation was not immediately clear. Edinburg's mayoral election is non-partisan. Molina faces one count of engaging in organized election fraud and two counts of illegal voting. Molina's wife, Dalia, was also arrested and charged with one count of illegal voting. The Molinas' alleged illegal voting scheme also enlisted paid campaign workers, Paxton said in a news release. Eighteen individuals have been arrested since last year in connection to the sche...

https://abcn.ws/2vlEMCL The son of a Guatemalan presidential candidate facing drugs and weapons charges in the U.S. said Thursday his father is innocent and is asking lawmakers in the Central American country for an investigation. Mario Alejandro Estrada Ruano is head of government for the Jalapa department of Guatemala and the son of Mario Estrada Orellana, who was arrested April 17 in Miami. He said in a statement that the family has doubts about the accusations against the elder Estrada, who allegedly has ties to Mexico's Sinaloa cartel. Estrada is also accused of illicit electoral financing, plotting to kill political rivals and offering to help drug traffickers. Watch Now Rush from Mexico to US as Trump threatens to close border One-on-one with El Paso Mayor Dee Margo on possible border closure Guatemala's former top prosecutor and presidential candidate Thelma Aldana said in an interview published Thursday by the newspaper Prensa Libre that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Admin...

http://bit.ly/2VmvuoQ Rod Rosenstein won’t stick around much longer at the Department of Justice, but the deputy Attorney General will make his departure memorable. At a dinner hosted by the Armenian Bar Association, Rosenstein took aim at critics, the media, and especially Russia, whose aims at destabilizing the US remain vastly underappreciated, he warned. However, when describing his last two years at the center of the Russiagate maelstrom, Rosenstein took veiled shots at the Obama administration, James Comey, and Congress for their roles in stoking those fires: SEE ALSO: Biden on “The View”: I don’t think I treated Anita Hill badly At my confirmation hearing in March 2017, a Republican Senator asked me to make a commitment. He said: “You’re going to be in charge of this [Russia] investigation. I want you to look me in the eye and tell me that you’ll do it right, that you’ll take it to its conclusion and you’ll report [your results] to the American people.” I did pledge to do it rig...

https://n.pr/2L3B2As A secretive group of scientists who advise the U.S. government on everything from spy satellites to nuclear weapons is scrambling to find a sponsor after the Defense Department abruptly ended its contract late last month. The group, known as the Jasons, will run out of money at the end of April. The Pentagon says that the group's advice is no longer needed, but independent experts say it has never been more relevant and worry the department is throwing away a valuable resource. Russell Hemley, the head of the Jasons, says that other government agencies still want advice and that the Jasons are determined to give it. Late Thursday, it appeared that another government agency might be willing to take on the group. The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration posted a solicitation saying it intends to take over the contract for the group. That could happen in a matter of months, and it is unclear how the Mitre Corp., which manages the Jas...

https://yhoo.it/2viWffg After failing to show up to court, R. Kelly lost a civil lawsuit by default earlier this week against a woman who alleges the R&B singer sexually abused her as a teenager. In the lawsuit, which was filed in February, the alleged victim, who is identified in court documents as H.W., claimed that in 1998, when she was 16, Kelly began sexually abusing her, according to the Chicago Tribune. She is now 36. The woman is one of the four alleged victims Kelly was charged with abusing in February, for which the singer faces 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. On Tuesday, a Chicago judge issued a default judgment in the case, as neither Kelly nor his lawyers filed an answer to the suit, or made an appearance in court. The woman’s lawyer, Jeffrey Deutschman, tells PEOPLE that Kelly was served with the lawsuit while in custody at the Cook County jail in March after failing to pay $161,000 in back child support. Deutschman and his client will appear in court a...

http://bit.ly/2W6SKEy The Department of Justice has been dismissing child pornography cases in order to not reveal information about the software programs used as the basis for the charges. An array of cases suggest serious problems with the tech tools used by federal authorities. But the private entities who developed these tools won't submit them for independent inspection or hand over hardly any information about how they work, their error rates, or other critical information. As a result, potentially innocent people are being smeared as pedophiles and prosecuted as child porn collectors, while potentially guilty people are going free so these companies can protect "trade secrets." The situation suggests some of the many problems that can arise around public-private partnerships in catching criminals and the secretive digital surveillance software that it entails (software that's being employed for far more than catching child predators). With the child pornography...

http://bit.ly/2vkeCAs ussian security services have launched a series of raids against the homes and meeting places of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the country’s far-eastern Siberian region, detaining several devotees. The actions are the latest in a nationwide crackdown against the Christian denomination, which was added to Russia’s registry of extremist organizations in 2017. According to The Moscow Times, Federal Security Service (FSB) officers targeted at least 15 homes in the southern Siberian city of Novosibirsk, the Primorye region on the country’s Pacific coast and the central Krasnoyarsk region at the end of last week. The Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia organization said five worshipers were detained, two of which remain in pre-trial detention. Religious materials, including Bibles, were also seized during the searches, the group said. A statement released by the Krasnoyarsk region’s Investigative Committee explained it had petitioned for the arrest of an unnamed 28-year-old leader o...

http://bit.ly/2UVbSJ9 Head of a directorate of the Federal Security Service - Colonel Kirill Cherkalin - has been detained on suspicion of bribe taking on a large scale, reports TASS with reference to the Public Relations Centre of the Federal Security Service. “Head of a directorate of the Federal Security Service - Colonel Kirill Vladimirovich Cherkalin has been detained within a case into bribe taking on a large scale,” the Federal Security Service reported. They noted that 2 other ex-employees of the same directorate - Frolov Dmitry Alekseevich and Vasiliev Andrey Valerievich - had been also detained. They had earlier been fired due to compromising circumstances. Truba pod Neglinnoy (Pipe under Neglinnaya street) Telegram channel reported that Kirill Cherkalin had been the head of the 2nd department of the ‘K’ directorate of the Federal Security Service that supervised the Central Bank and banks. According to the channel, the detention is is tied to a case into an ex-owner of Yugra...

http://bit.ly/2ZhZgds Rear Adm. Daniel MacDonnell, the 11th deputy chief of the Central Security Service (CSS) at the National Security Agency (NSA), visited the Center for Information Warfare Training (CIWT) and Information Warfare Training Command (IWTC) Corry Station to review information warfare (IW) training initiatives and discuss current and future training for the military services’ rapidly changing IW missions, capabilities and roles, April 16. This was MacDonnell’s first visit to CIWT since taking the helm of CSS in September 2018. In his role at CSS, MacDonnell oversees the function of the military cryptology system; coordinates and develops policy and guidance on the signals intelligence and cybersecurity missions of NSA/CSS to ensure military integration; manages and cultivates the partnerships between NSA/CSS and the service cryptologic elements; provides timely and accurate cryptologic support, knowledge, and assistance to the military cryptologic community; and ensures ...

http://bit.ly/2GBEeyZ The National Security Agency announced the U.S. Air Force Academy is the winner of the 2019 NSA Cyber Exercise — a three-day competition that tests cyber warrior skills. More than 100 women and men from the U.S. Military Academy, U.S. Naval Academy, U.S. Air Force Academy, and the U.S. Coast Guard participated in the exercise, held Apr. 15-17 at the Air Force Academy. “The women and men who participated in this year’s event represent the best and the brightest of the next generation of cyber warriors,” said Gen. Paul M. Nakasone, commander, U.S. Cyber Command, and director National Security Agency/chief, Central Security Service, in a news release issued Apr. 19 by the NSA. “We commend them for their dedication to service in protecting the nation from ever-evolving cyber threats.” ROTC students from Texas A&M University, the University of North Georgia, and Norwich University also participated in NSA’s NCX as non-competing teams. During the exercise, cadets an...

https://dailym.ai/2Pwiojg Last year GCHQ revealed it was preventing ten cyber attacks every week The spy agency will prevent credit card and bank account fraud Information can be given to banks in real time due to 24-hour monitoring By MATT OLIVER CITY CORRESPONDENT FOR THE DAILY MAIL PUBLISHED: 19:47 EDT, 23 April 2019 | UPDATED: 19:56 EDT, 23 April 2019 e-mail 6 shares 9 View comments GCHQ is to start sharing intelligence with British banks in an attempt to tackle fraud and cyber attacks. The move is part of plans for the spy agency to work more closely with businesses, its director Jeremy Fleming will say today. It is understood this could range from GCHQ helping prevent credit card and bank account fraud to alerting banks if they become targets of computer hackers. This information can be given to banks in real time thanks to the agency’s 24-hour monitoring of online activity. +2 The move is part of plans for the spy agency to work more closely with businesses, its director Jeremy ...

https://cbsn.ws/2IStT3h Rapid technological shifts have had a profound impact on the traditional capabilities — and competitive advantages — of the U.S. intelligence and defense communities, according to Chris Darby, the president and CEO of In-Q-Tel (IQT). Created in 1999, IQT functions as a strategic investment arm of the CIA and broader national security community. Listen to this episode on Stitcher Technology "underpins society today in a way it never has before," Darby said. "I think if you look at everything from projection of power to pre-deployment of capability, it's about technology. It's about your nation's technology and the way it is deployed around the world. And we're seeing adversaries leverage that, I think, quite successfully." In a recent interview, Darby, who took the helm at IQT in 2006, told "Intelligence Matters" host and CBS News senior national security contributor Michael Morell that a "democratization" o...

http://bit.ly/2IExO4m British intelligence agencies strongly denied accusations from President Donald Trump Tuesday that they helped the Obama administration spy on the Trump campaign in 2016. Trump posted a tweet early Tuesday, quoting a One America News Network report that the British intelligence agency GCHQ wiretapped Trump Tower in New York City. The report's source was former CIA agent Larry Johnson, who is a frequent contributor to Russian state media. OANN is a pro-Trump pay TV channel based in California. The GCHQ quickly responded. RELATED Trump to make official state visit to Britain in June "As we have previously stated, the allegations that GCHQ was asked to conduct 'wire tapping' against the then-president-elect are nonsense," a British intelligence representative told Newsweek. "They are utterly ridiculous and should be ignored." Johnson was the source for the claim going as far back as 2017, first reported by Fox News. He also accused the...

https://bbc.in/2XA9Iv8 Sri Lanka has admitted a "major intelligence lapse" before the Easter Sunday bomb attacks which killed 359 people and wounded more than 500. An Indian intelligence warning from the beginning of the month about planned attacks was not properly shared by the authorities, parliament heard. President Maithripala Sirisena has moved to sack the defence secretary and inspector general of police. Eight of the nine attackers have been identified as Sri Lankan citizens. What led to Sri Lanka's Easter carnage? What we know so far Who were the victims? The government is investigating whether the Islamic State (IS) group was involved in the attacks which targeted churches and high-end hotels. It has emerged that one of the attackers once studied in the UK and Australia before returning to Sri Lanka. How did the authorities get it wrong? "We have to take responsibility because unfortunately if the sharing of the intelligence information had been given to the...

https://yhoo.it/2DAhNbF Donald Trump has repeated unverified claims that Britain’s intelligence agencies spied on his 2016 presidential campaign, a day after Buckingham Palace confirmed he would make a three-day state visit to the UK in June. Trump was tweeting in response to former CIA analyst, Larry Johnson, who told the conservative One America News network, he believed the earlier claims that had first emerged in 2017 to be true. “It is now just a question of time before the truth comes out, and when it does, it will be a beauty,” Trump tweeted. Trump’s tweet prompted another rebuke from the UK’s intelligence, cyber and security agency, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). “The allegations that GCHQ was asked to conduct ‘wire tapping’ against the then President Elect are nonsense. They are utterly ridiculous and should be ignored,” a GCHQ spokesperson told Reuters news agency. In 2017, Sean Spicer, who was White House press secretary at the time, repeated allegations ...

http://bit.ly/2vlMCw6 Stunning new details about the scale of the sexual abuse scandal are rocking the Boy Scouts of America. New court documents suggest about 3,000 additional volunteers and former leaders were involved in abuse over the course of 72 years. The testimony shows more than 7,800 former Boy Scout leaders were removed from the organization for “reasonable allegations of child sexual abuse.” “When we got this information, we had to sound the alarm,” said Jeff Anderson, an attorney who represents sexual abuse survivors, who shared the information. That information, exposed as testimony in an unrelated case, is part of the organization’s private database of banned volunteers. Records also identify more than 12,000 alleged child victims in that same period. It’s unknown how many other potential victims and abusers have gone unreported. “There is and has been a large scale, wholesale coverup by the Boy Scouts of America,” Anderson said. The findings are part of testimony from D...

http://bit.ly/2UzYgxH The reactors aboard the Akademik Lomonosov, Russia’s floating nuclear power plant, have been brought to 100 percent capacity and is ready to be commissioned, Rosatom, the state nuclear corporation, announced on Wednesday. According to a release from Andrei Petrov, the general director of the Rosenergoatom nuclear utility, which will run the Akademik Lomonosov, the plant’s two KLT-40 reactors were brought to full power on March 31. This process, said Petrov, “confirmed the operational stability of the main and auxiliary equipment of the plant, as well as the automatic process control systems”. The announcement marks the end of ten months worth of tests on the nuclear barge, which were carried out at Atomflot, the Murmansk-based headquarters of Russia’s nuclear icebreaker fleet. The news is bound to spark fresh concern about the controversial notion of floating two nuclear reactors on a 144 meter-long hull and attaching the whole apparatus to a land-based grid with ...

https://pge.sx/2VZs6gB “Smallville” TV actress and accused Nxivm slave master Allison Mack may take the stand against the alleged sex-cult’s leader, his lawyer acknowledged Monday. Lawyers for both sides of the case were vetting potential jurors for the upcoming trial of Nxivm chief Keith Raniere when the development surfaced. A potential juror, identified only as “No. 16,” had been telling the court that he’d read media reports about the case, including “some writings about the actress. “At least, what happened to the individual,” the prospective juror said of Mack, who pleaded guilty earlier this month to charges of racketeering and racketeering conspiracy charges, including extortion and forced labor. “It’s not like I’m in the dark,” he said. Raniere’s lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, said the man should be tossed from the case, given his knowledge of other defendants such as Mack. “I think that person might testify,” Agnifilo said of the 36-year-old actress. Mack’s lawyers did not immediatel...

https://nyp.st/2GEavG1 Yet another woman who was allegedly raped as a child by the leader of the accused sex cult Nxivm could take the stand at his upcoming trial, according to new court documents. Prosecutors said they want to call the woman, identified in court papers only as “Jane Doe X,” to testify to prove Nxivm leader Keith Raniere had a habit of preying on young girls. Raniere, 58, is already facing charges of sexual exploitation of a child for the alleged rape of then-15-year-old Jane Doe 2. The filing claims Raniere had “repeated sexual intercourse” with Doe X when she was just 12 and 13 years old. “The defendant’s abuse of Jane Doe X and Jane Doe 2 occurred when both victims were around the same age, and Jane Doe X and Jane Doe 2 both had parents who trusted the defendant and left them unsupervised to be tutored or mentored by the defendant and cared for by women in the defendant’s ‘inner circle,'” the court papers read. “Evidence of the defendant’s sexual involvement wit...

http://bit.ly/2vlMTiU Candace Marie Claiborne, a former employee of the U.S. Department of State, pleaded guilty today to a charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States, by lying to law enforcement and background investigators, and hiding her extensive contacts with, and gifts from, agents of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), in exchange for providing them with internal documents from the U.S. State Department. The announcement was made by Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu of the District of Columbia, Assistant Director in Charge Nancy McNamara of the FBI’s Washington Field Office and Deputy Assistant Secretary Ricardo Colón, Domestic Operations, U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service. The plea took place before the Honorable Randolph D. Moss of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. “Candace Marie Claiborne traded her integrity and non-public information of the United States government i...