State Department Employee Arrested and Charged With Concealing Extensive Contacts With Foreign Agents

[Bigun]

State Department Employee Arrested and Charged With Concealing Extensive  Agents

A federal complaint was unsealed today charging Candace Marie Claiborne, 60, of Washington, D.C., and an employee of the U.S. Department of State, with obstructing an official proceeding and making false statements to the FBI, both felony offenses, for allegedly concealing numerous contacts that she had over a period of years with foreign intelligence agents.
 
The charges were announced by Acting Assistant Attorney General Mary B. McCord for National Security, U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips of the District of Columbia and Assistant Director in Charge Andrew W. Vale of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
 
“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,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General McCord. “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.”

More at link!  https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/state-department-employee-arrested-and-charged-concealing-extensive-contacts-foreign-agents

[Bigun]

@Smokin Joe

1 down XXXXXXXXX to go!

[EC]

@Smokin Joe

1 down XXXXXXXXX to go!

Or the sacrificial lamb?

[dfwgator]

Hang the bitch!

[skeeter]

Candace Marie Claiborne is to the Clinton administration what Hiroo Onoda was to the Imperial Japanese army. Still in there grifting twenty years later.

[Frank Cannon]

@Smokin Joe

1 down XXXXXXXXX to go!

About sums it up.

[Bigun]

Candace Marie Claiborne is to the Clinton administration what Hiroo Onoda was to the Imperial Japanese army. Still in there grifting twenty years later.

[skeeter]

Seriously, Trump needs to get going on housecleaning.

[Bigun]

Or the sacrificial lamb?

@EC

Perhaps! I've had a hard day and was looking for good news!  ANY good news! 

[Bigun]

Seriously, Trump needs to get going on housecleaning.

@skeeter

I think Tillerson has done a fair amount of housecleaning there already and no they are down to the dirty job of rooting them out one by one!

[anubias]

Good news for a change.  Hope they get them all.

[EC]

@EC

Perhaps! I've had a hard day and was looking for good news!  ANY good news!

It's still good news - you know she's going to roll over on others to save her own ass.

[catfish1957]

Candace Marie Claiborne is to the Clinton administration what Hiroo Onoda was to the Imperial Japanese army. Still in there grifting twenty years later.

Wouldn't it be a hoot if she sung, and implicated the Clintons/Clinton Foundation?

[Smokin Joe]

@Smokin Joe

1 down XXXXXXXXX to go!

Well, now, a chink in the armor, so to speak. I doubt she acted completely alone. Keep the investigation going.

[Smokin Joe]

Wouldn't it be a hoot if she sung, and implicated the Clintons/Clinton Foundation?

One can hope... Loral deals come to mind, for starters.

[Smokin Joe]

It's still good news - you know she's going to roll over on others to save her own ass.

Only thing is she's getting up there in years (not that 60 is "old"), and might have a sudden medical problem. We don't know how deep the tendrils reach.

[Bigun]

It's still good news - you know she's going to roll over on others to save her own ass.

@EC

Certainly hope so!  Wouldn't be the first time something was rolled up in that fashion!

[EC]

Going to add something slightly unpopular.

I hope the investigators DON'T try to work up the ladder with her. Nailing Clinton - finally - would be lovely, don't get me wrong. But right now, clearing out the entrenched lower level types is WAY more important. She's more likely to clam up on higher-ups, and more likely to spill everything she's got on underlings.

[Bigun]

Going to add something slightly unpopular.

I hope the investigators DON'T try to work up the ladder with her. Nailing Clinton - finally - would be lovely, don't get me wrong. But right now, clearing out the entrenched lower level types is WAY more important. She's more likely to clam up on higher-ups, and more likely to spill everything she's got on underlings.

 

[Suppressed]

State Department Employee Arrested and Charged With Concealing Extensive  Agents

Point of clarification: this isn't a new one.  This is the one from back in March.

[Bigun]

Point of clarification: this isn't a new one.  This is the one from back in March.

It's about a month old but very few are aware of it due to our "news" media deep sixing it!

[Bigun]

More on this story here:  http://canadafreepress.com/article/hillary-aide-charged-with-violations-of-espionage-act-and-conspiracy-with-h

[Smokin Joe]

Going to add something slightly unpopular.

I hope the investigators DON'T try to work up the ladder with her. Nailing Clinton - finally - would be lovely, don't get me wrong. But right now, clearing out the entrenched lower level types is WAY more important. She's more likely to clam up on higher-ups, and more likely to spill everything she's got on underlings.

If you aree going to drain the swamp, you have to get the rootlets out of the plumbing.

[mountaineer]

Going to add something slightly unpopular.

I hope the investigators DON'T try to work up the ladder with her. Nailing Clinton - finally - would be lovely, don't get me wrong. But right now, clearing out the entrenched lower level types is WAY more important. She's more likely to clam up on higher-ups, and more likely to spill everything she's got on underlings.

Agreed. And the State department is just a start. They're everywhere.

[XenaLee]

Seriously, Trump needs to get going on housecleaning.

I hate to pose this distinct possibility to you.... but....

I don't think he's going to do any housecleaning.  Nice dream, though.