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#24398024 at 2026-03-18 21:56:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #29747: Wut Iz Reel? Edition

>>24398002
2/3
"But she doesn't stay in crypto," the ex-official said. "She is trying to get to the heights of the military-space innovation community. The husband's totally oblivious."

"Showing up, marrying a target, having kids with a target - and conducting a lifelong collection operation, it's very uncomfortable to think about but it's so prevalent," he continued. "If I wanted to be out of the shadows, I'd write a book on it."

The theft of trade secrets is estimated to cost the American taxpayer up to $600 billion a year, with China identified as the principal source of this loss, according to the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property.

In 2023 Klaus Pflugbeil, a resident of Ningbo, China, tried to sell intellectual property he had stolen from Tesla to undercover agents at a Las Vegas trade conference for $15 million. He was sentenced to 24 months in prison last December; his alleged accomplice, Yilong Shao, who also lived in Ningbo, remains on the run. (Shao has not publicly commented on the case.)

The men, both former employees of a Canadian manufacturing company that was acquired by Tesla in 2019, were said to have used the stolen trade secrets to build a rival business in China. Pflugbeil told Shao that he had "a lot of original documents" related to Tesla's battery technology and sought out more "original drawings" of the trade secrets, prosecutors said.

The assistant attorney-general for national security, Matthew Olsen, said in a statement in December: "In stealing trade secrets from an American electric-vehicle manufacturer to use in his own China-based company, Pflugbeil's actions stood to benefit the PRC [People's Republic of China] in a critical industry with national security implications."

Meanwhile the US government has warned startups against entering international "pitch competitions" where founders pitch their business ideas to Chinese investors. Winners can receive cash awards, subsidies and investment - on the condition that they bring their IP to China and set up an operation in the country.

Some of the competitions ask startups to share their business strategies, intellectual property and even personal data and photos before participating, US officials said in a warning issued last month.

"Part of it is a counterintelligence risk. They're looking at how they can exploit you later," the senior US counterintelligence official said.

"And part of it is they may simply take your idea, exploit it and patent it, stealing your financial future."

Academics and younger innovators eager to develop their ideas andestablish a lucrative business are especially susceptible to exploitation, the official added. One contest that has officials concerned is the ninth annual China (Shenzhen) Innovation and Entrepreneurship International Competition, held this month in several cities across the world including Boston, London and Tokyo.

Winners are expected to form a business in China in order to receive cash awards and investment.

https://archive.is/JfRTP

#18979144 at 2023-06-09 20:35:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23301: Slippery Slope Of Indictments Edition

>>18979142
"Following that meeting, Mr. D'Antuono described how Justice Department counterintelligence official George Toscas - who also reportedly worked on the 'Crossfire Hurricane and Clinton email investigations' told him that FBI agents were ready to execute the warrant," the letter states. "Mr. D'Antuono pushed back on the Department for trying to unilaterally allocate FBI resources."

The last misstep in the raid, D'Antuono testified, was the FBI's decision to "exclude President
Trump's attorney from the search, a move with which Mr. D'Antuono disagreed."

Once again, D'Antuono reiterated his belief that the FBI "should have worked with the attorney to get consent to search the residence prior to seeking a warrant for the search" because "there was a good likelihood that [they] could have gotten consent."

Jordan concluded the letter by noting that the DOJ is stonewalling his requests for information about the FBI's foray into Trump's Florida home.

"In light of this testimony and the Department's failure to respond to our previous oversight requests, we write to renew and supplement our request for documents necessary for our oversight," Jordan wrote.

By June 16 at 5 p.m., the House Judiciary Committee wants all of the information, documents, and communications between the DOJ and FBI before the raid. Jordan specifically requested relevant documents from several members of the DOJ and FBI, including Paul Abbate, Matthew Olsen, Bratt, Toscas, and the interviewee.

To verify D'Antuono's claims about consent, the committee asked that "all documents and communications between or among Washington Field Office agents and employees and the U.S. Secret Service about a potential search of President Trump's residence" also be turned over.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/06/09/fbi-official-in-charge-of-mar-a-lago-raid-said-feds-breached-protocol-in-repeat-russia-collusion-hoax-fashion/

#18735617 at 2023-04-22 17:32:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22988: Midday Comfefe Edition

Minnesota home to clandestine Chinese 'police station'.

The Star Tribune published a series of reports in 2020 on theUniversity of Minnesota's close connections to China.According to the reports, more than 3,000 Chinese students were enrolled at the university at the time along with more than 230 professors and 400 visiting faculty.

The reports said university leaders and staff had made more than 700 trips to China over the prior three years to recruit students, "pursue research collaborations, nurture relationships with alumni and sign partnership deals with Chinese universities."

A timeline published with the reports said former university president Eric Kaler visited China eight times during his tenure.

The Department of Justice announced charges this week against two men who allegedly opened and operated an "illegal overseas police station" in lower Manhattan on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The purpose of this operation was to "monitor and intimidate dissidents and those critical" of the Chinese government, Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen explained in a Monday news release.

https://alphanews.org/report-minnesota-home-to-clandestine-chinese-police-station/

#18614036 at 2023-03-31 14:28:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22834: The First Arrest Will Shock the World Edition

>>18613847 LB
Hey crooked Joe, why you signaling AAG Matthew Olsen & Jay Bratt DOJ NSD in a tweet?
Seems like you would use a "normal" line of communication if the plan to read someone on DT in 6 days was legitimate & legal. If 'cutting the cord' in 6 was a lawful action by NSD, you wouldn't be involved.
Ain't that right TR 260, ferrarya & yp68?

#18440290 at 2023-03-03 20:40:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22609: EBake

Emails Reveal Hunter Biden Coached Joe's Office on How to Answer Burisma Questions

The Biden Crime Family is once again back in the news and the DOJ continues to sit on their hands.

The New York Post exclusively revealed that Joe Biden's ne'er-do-well son Hunter coached Joe's then-press secretary Kendra Barkoff over how to respond to questions about the board of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas company.

These exchanges between Hunter and Barkoff form the basis of the complaint Hunter defied federal law by not registering as a foreign agent.

This also proves once again that Joe always knew about his son's activities with Burisma.

The New York Post reported:

Then-second son Hunter Biden coached then-Vice President Joe Biden's press secretary on how to respond to media questions about him joining the board of Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings, emails reviewed by The Post show.

The May 13, 2014, exchanges between Hunter and Kendra Barkoff, which have not been previously reported, form the basis of a complaint sent to the Justice Department on Friday alleging that the Biden scion, now 53, violated federal law by failing to register as a foreign agent.

"In advising the Office of the Vice President how to respond to press inquiries about his appointment, Hunter Biden 'represent[ed] the interests of [a] foreign principal before any agency or official of the Government of the United States,'" America First Legal Foundation general counsel Gene Hamilton wrote to the assistant attorney general for national security, Matthew Olsen, quoting the relevant statute.

Burisma announced Hunter Biden's appointment to its board of directors on May 12, 2014. The following day, according to the complaint, Barkoff sent Hunter an email saying: "Thanks for talking to me. [L]et me know who I should refer folks to."

"What exactly are they asking?" Hunter responded. "For the time being I'd just refer them to my office. FYI I joined the board of Burisma Holdings Ltd. (Burisma.com) an independent/private natural gas producer in Ukraine along with the former president of Poland. I think the press release is on their website."

Barkoff then forwarded Hunter an email from Max Seddon, then a foreign correspondent at BuzzFeed News.

"Russian state media is loving this press release, supposedly from a Cypriot-held Ukrainian natural gas company, claiming that the Vice President's son has joined its board of directors," Seddon wrote, addressing then-National Security Council spokesperson Laura Lucas Magnuson, who had forwarded it to Barkoff.

"The news seems rather odd on its face and, if true, would present a fairly glaring conflict of interest given the VP's role on Ukraine policy - particularly since the company is controlled by Nikolai Zlochevsky, who was energy minister and deputy NSC chief under [former pro-Moscow Ukrainian President Viktor] Yanukovych," the reporter added. "Is this true? What exactly is going on here?"

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/just-in-emails-reveal-hunter-biden-coached-joes-office-on-how-to-answer-burisma-questions/

#18300983 at 2023-02-07 16:02:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22428: Tuesday Morning Melania Edition

>>18300954
>"Make no mistake. We will be relentless in defending our country from China," saidMatt Olsen, the assistant attorney general in charge of the national security division. But he said "a new approach is needed to tackle the most severe threats from a range of hostile nation-states."


July 09, 2014
Statement by the President on the Resignation of Matt Olsen

Most Americans may not know Matt Olsen's name, but every American is safer because of his service. As Director of the National Counterterrorism Center for the past three years, Matt and the dedicated professionals he has led at the NCTC have been absolutely critical to our success in disrupting terrorist cells, thwarting attacks and protecting the American people from evolving threats at home and abroad. I've relied on Matt's wise judgment and counsel, and I am especially grateful for his work to ensure that our counterterrorism efforts remain consistent with the rule of law and our values as a nation. As he concludes 24 years of federal service, I thank Matt for a distinguished career that has left our nation more secure and even better prepared to meet the threats of our time.

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/07/09/statement-president-resignation-matt-Olsen


Obama Official Matthew Olsen, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Says Benghazi Killings was a terrorist attack


The gig is up for the Obama spin machine and this Obama foreign policy debacle ...

Finally after eight days of denial and insulting the intelligence of Americans and spinning the truth of what happened, an Obama official admits that the attacks on the Benghazi consulate and the murder of Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans was the results of a terrorist attack. Even the Obama spin machine could not cover this travesty up. After shamelessly stating that the attacks were a result of an anti-Mohammad video trailer of a movie no one has seen, the lie is over. Four dead and an American Ambassador to Libya murdered, sodomized and dragged through the streets on the 11th anniversary of 9-11. This Administration is going to have a hard time explaining to total and complete security failure.

The Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was in fact "a terrorist attack" and the U.S. government has indications that members of al Qaeda were directly involved, a top Obama administration official said Wednesday morning.

"I would say yes, they were killed in the course of a terrorist attack on our embassy," Matt Olsen, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said Wednesday at a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, in response to questioning from Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-CT) about the attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

As for who was responsible, Olsen said it appears there were attackers from a number of different militant groups that operate in and around Benghazi, and said there are already signs of al Qaeda involvement.

"We are looking at indications that individuals involved in the attack may have had connections to al Qaeda or al Qaeda's affiliates; in particular, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb," he said.

However, after previously spinning the obvious that the Benghazi attacks were terror related, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney declined to say that security was adequate at the Libyan consulate in Benghazi. Carney was rather silent on blaming the video for the attacks. The gig is up and this foreign policy fiasco will have major ramifications. No wonder Sec, of State Hillary Clinton was no where to be found on the Sunday talk shows this past weekend.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney today declined to say that security was adequate at the Libyan consulate in Benghazi during that the assault that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya last week on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, saying the matter is being studied.

Asked by Ed Henry of Fox News is there was sufficient security at the consulate, Carney replied, "I am simply saying that this is a matter under investigation."

Carney added, however, that there were steps "taken both seen and unseen in advance in preparation for times like 9/11."

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2012/09/19/obama-official-Matthew-Olsen-director-of-the-national-counterterrorism-center-says-benghazi-killings-was-a-terrorist-attack/

#18274614 at 2023-02-03 04:20:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22394: Clown Balloon Slide In Full Effect Edition

>>18274606(me)

2/2

Even closer to the Biden family is Jennings' chief deputy, Alexander Mackler, who served as Joe Biden's press secretary in his final months as a US senator, managed Beau's successful re-election campaign for state attorney general in 2010, and served as the elder Biden's deputy counsel during his time as Barack Obama's vice president.

Mackler's name also appears frequently in Hunter Biden's laptop.

"I just finished a hellacious couple months in court," Mackler wrote Hunter on Oct. 16, 2018 in a message with the subject line "Hey".

"Now that I have a chance to breathe, was wondering how life is on your end," Mackler went on. "Last you told me you were out in LA. Gimme a call sometime we can catch up. Love you brother."
In Mackler's last message to Hunter, from Feb. 3, 2019, he wished his friend a happy birthday and added, "Lost track of time down here. Hope you're ok. Call sometime."

Jennings' office didn't respond to The Post on Thursday when asked if she would recuse herself from any potential investigation given her personal and professional ties to the Bidens.

Meanwhile, another letter from Lowell was addressed to the Justice Department's top national security official, Matthew Olsen - who held several sensitive legal positions in the Obama-Biden administration, including general counsel of the National Security Agency and director of the National Counterterrorism Center before leaving government in 2014.

==While in the private sector, Olsen was a fellow at two left-leaning think tanks - the Center for a New American Security and the Center for American Progress - and wrote a number of op-eds critical of Trump and his administration.
One of those op-eds, published during the 2016 election campaign by Time, bore the provocative title: "Why ISIS Supports Donald Trump."==
When Biden nominated Olsen to head the DOJ's National Security Division in May 2021, many Republican senators saw him as damaged goods.
"Although I appreciate Mr. Olsen's prior public service, he no longer has the credibility necessary to fill this important role given the partisan nature of his post-government writings," Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said at the time. "Institutions are only as good as the American public's confidence in them, and Mr. Olsen would further undermine public confidence in America's national security institutions."
Olsen was ultimately confirmed on a near party-line vote of 53-45.
A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment Thursday when asked if Olsen would play a role in any possible Hunter laptop probe.
Hunter Biden's lawyer has appealed for a criminal "investigation" into those who exposed his laptop from two people with a long friendly history with the Bidens:
Kathy Jennings, Delaware Attorney General
?Named state prosecutor in Delaware DOJ in 2011 by Beau Biden, Hunter's late brother.
Endorsed Biden for president the day he announced, writing on Facebook: "I've known Joe, Jill, and the Biden family for most of my life. Joe is one of the kindest and most genuine people I've ever known . . . I'm choosing Joe because nobody understands more what it means to heal, and right now that's what America needs."
Chief Deputy AG Alexander Mackler was Biden's deputy counsel while VP, managed Beau's AG campaign in 2010, and was Biden's press secretary while a senator.
Matthew Olsen, assistant AG for National Security
?Held a number of positions in Obama-Biden administration, including NSA general counsel and director of National Counterterrorism Center before leaving government in 2014.
?Wrote article in Time magazine in 2016 headlined: "Why ISIS supports Donald Trump."
Nominated by Biden as national security AAG in May 2021, confirmed on party-line vote, with Sen. Marco Rubio saying Olsen "no longer has the credibility necessary to fill this important role given the partisan nature of his post-government writings."

Sauce: https://nypost.com/2023/02/02/hunter-biden-begs-friends-dad-joes-employees-to-get-him-off-the-hook/

#18122196 at 2023-01-11 09:28:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22216: Moar to “MAGA” than meets the eye Edition

Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
REWIND: AG Garland cited Trump's entry into race & his boss Biden's plan to run again as reasons for naming special counsel to investigate Trump. He's now got a more direct conflict probing Biden for same thing, yet he's not naming special counsel for him?
https://twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1613041631380344832



Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Delivers Remarks on the Appointment of a Special Counsel
Washington, DC ~ Friday, November 18, 2022
Good afternoon.

I am here today to announce the appointment of a Special Counsel in connection with two ongoing criminal investigations that have received significant public attention.

The first, as described in court filings in the District of Columbia, is the investigation into whether any person or entity unlawfully interfered with the transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election or the certification of the Electoral College vote held on or about January 6, 2021.

The second is the ongoing investigation involving classified documents and other presidential records, as well as the possible obstruction of that investigation, referenced and described in court filings in a pending matter in the Southern District of Florida.

I am joined today by Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves, and Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division Kenneth Polite. Assistant Attorney General for National Security Matthew Olsen could not be here. He is currently in Germany, representing the Department at the G7 home affairs and security ministerial.

U.S. Attorney Graves has been ably leading the investigations into the events leading up to and on January 6. He and dozens of assistant U.S. Attorneys and other prosecutors have taken on the monumental task of conducting over 900 prosecutions in defense of our democratic institutions.

Criminal Division prosecutors under the able leadership of Assistant Attorney General Polite have played a significant role in those prosecutions.

Assistant Attorney General Olsen has been ably leading the team responsible for investigating the matter involving classified documents and other presidential records, as well as the possible obstruction of that investigation.

All of the career prosecutors assigned to these matters are conducting their work in the best traditions of the Department of Justice.

I also want to recognize the efforts of the many FBI agents and other law enforcement personnel who are assigned to these matters. They are working courageously and steadfastly, and are serving our nation honorably. I am grateful to them. We all are.

The Department of Justice has long recognized that in certain extraordinary cases, it is in the public interest to appoint a special prosecutor to independently manage an investigation and prosecution.

Based on recent developments, including the former President's announcement that he is a candidate for President in the next election, and the sitting President's stated intention to be a candidate as well, I have concluded that it is in the public interest to appoint a Special Counsel.

Such an appointment underscores the Department's commitment to both independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters. It also allows prosecutors and agents to continue their work expeditiously, and to make decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law.

#18065130 at 2023-01-03 11:55:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22141: Damar Hamlin Edition

AAG 24L Matthew Olsen NSD, "pound HCK78 H1, o2 &10, t12, K14 of 19".
(A+A+G)-(2-4)&M+6+5 = iax.

#17504613 at 2022-09-06 12:57:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21457: Podesta Is Back On The Menu Edition

Report: FBI 'Point Man' Buried Intel from Biden Family Business Whistleblower Bobulinski
Wendell Huseb?5 Sep 2022
Former FBI Hunter Biden "point man" Timothy Thibault reportedly buried information from Tony Bobulinski about the Biden family business scheme with a now-bankrupt CCP-linked energy company. The deal included ten percent "held by H for the big guy," who Bobulinski says is President Joe Biden.

Bobulinski, who personally met with Joe Biden in 2017 for an hour to discuss "the Bidens' family business plans with the Chinese,"reportedly gave the FBI three cell phones with encrypted messagesbetween him and the business partners, the New York Post reported Sunday. Bobulinski also handed over to the bureau "emails and financial documents detailing the Biden family's corrupt influence-peddling operation in foreign countries during Joe's vice presidency."

Bobulinski's interview with the FBI reportedly included meeting two high-ranking agents, who turned him over toyounger agents, William Novak and Garrett Churchill. Those agents reportedly videotaped the interview with Bobulinski and gave a receipt for the digital data Bobulinski provided.

A 2017 email from Hunter Biden's laptop revealed a business deal between Bobulinski, the Biden family, and high-ranking members of the Chinese Communist Party would include ten percent "held by H for the big guy?" Bobulinski has confirmed "the reference to 'the big guy' in the much-publicized May 13, 2017 e-mail was in fact a reference to Joe Biden."

After the interview, "Bobulinski and his lawyer were given Thibault's cellphone number and told that he would be their 'point man' at the FBI thereafter," the Post reported. "That night, Bobulinski's lawyer phoned Thibault, who said he would soon advise on next steps and whether Bobulinski should do a follow-up interview."

Yet Bobulinski and his lawyer never heard from Thibault, the report revealed. It should be noted Bobulinski was reportedly never invited to testify before the Delaware grand jury probing Hunter.

The assistant attorney general for the DOJ's National Security Division, Matthew Olsen, has since confirmed to Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) in a congressional hearing the bureau is investigating Hunter. According to a CNN report in July, Trump-appointed United States prosecutor David Weiss is deliberating whether Hunter and associates "violated money laundering, campaign finance, tax and foreign lobbying laws, as well as whether Hunter Biden broke federal firearm and other regulations." (They got the material in 2019, whats taking so long?)

Though Joe Biden and his staff have claimed seven times the president has had no part in the family business, he has been involved in at least 17 instances. Fifty-eight percent of voters believe that Joe Biden has played a role in his family's business. Sixty percent say Hunter Biden has sold "influence and access" to the president.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/09/05/report-fbi-point-man-buried-intel-biden-family-business-whistleblower-bobulinski/

#16934390 at 2022-07-29 18:55:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21233: Dubs Confirm Chy-na A Go To Shoot Her Down Edition

Bill Barr: Hunter Biden Investigation Warrants a Special Counsel After FBI Whistleblowers' Revelations

Former Attorney General Bill Barr said on Thursday that President Joe Biden's top law enforcement officer should appoint a special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation, following revelations by whistleblowers within the FBI that top brass were working to discredit allegations against the first son.

Trump-appointed U.S. prosecutor David Weiss is investigating Hunter and associates for tax violations and lying to law enforcement about illegally purchasing a firearm, CNN reported. Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice's (DOJ) National Security Division, Matthew Olsen, on Thursday confirmed to Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) in a congressional hearing the agency is investigating Hunter Biden.

The case has been largely under wraps until Monday, when Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) revealed "highly credible" allegations of efforts within the FBI and the Justice Department to downplay or dismiss negative information about Hunter Biden. Bill Barr believes the credible allegations are enough for Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel.

"[I]ntervening events, especially recent reports about FBI whistleblowers and the possible reach of the investigation, warrant adding the protections of special counsel status to assure that key decisions are made independently without political 'favor,'" Barr told the Federalist.

Garland has previously refused to say whether a special counsel should be placed over the investigation to maintain a just probe. But Garland promised not to interfere with the probe. "He is supervising the investigation and I'm not at liberty to talk about internal Justice Department deliberations, but he is in charge of that investigation," Garland said of Weiss.

A special counsel would provide a degree of separation between Biden's administration and the probe. Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley has said a special counsel should be appointed by Garland to study the Biden family business. Turley noted Joe Biden has denied any wrongdoing by Hunter and may have influenced the ongoing investigation.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/29/bill-barr-hunter-biden-investigation-warrants-special-counsel-after-fbi-whistleblowers-revelations/

Barr go to fucking Hell today, you blocked it, you knew all the crimes of the Bidan's, and the corruption in the DOJ and FBI, I can't wait until the uncover what you fucking did. Once again, Barr go to fucking hell!

#16930092 at 2022-07-29 03:11:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21229: Schlong Covid BTFO Monkey Pox~ Night Shit Edition

Senior DOJ Official Confirms Hunter Biden Investigation: 'I'm Not Going to Talk About Any Ongoing Investigation'

Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice's (DOJ) National Security Division, Matthew Olsen, on Thursday confirmed to Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) in a congressional hearing the agency is investigating Hunter Biden.

"I'm not going to talk about any ongoing investigation," Olsen replied three separate times to Gaetz's line of questioning. "Again, we don't talk about ongoing investigations in settings such as this," Olsen reiterated.

https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2022/07/28/senior-doj-official-confirms-hunter-biden-investigation-im-not-going-to-talk-about-any-ongoing-investigation/

#16665028 at 2022-07-07 18:55:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21041: Bot Spammer Back Edition

US charges two Homeland Security workers in Chinese spying scheme

A grand jury returned an indictment charging the two men and three others with crimes committed while acting as alleged Chinese agents, the department said in a statement.

US prosecutors charged two men tied to the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as part of what federal law enforcement officials have called a "transnational repression scheme" on behalf of the Chinese government to spy on and harass dissidents living in the United States.

The two charged were Craig Miller, who has worked as a DHS deportation officer for 15 years in Minnesota, and Derrick Taylor, a retired DHS law enforcement agent now working as a private investigator in California, the US Department of Justice said on Thursday.

On Wednesday, a grand jury returned an indictment charging the two men and three others with crimes committed while acting as alleged Chinese agents, the department said in a statement.

"We will defend the rights of people in the United States to engage in free speech and political expression," said Assistant Attorney General for National Security Matthew Olsen.

"These individuals aided agents of a foreign government in seeking to suppress dissenting voices who have taken refuge here," he added.

"These individuals aided agents of a foreign government in seeking to suppress dissenting voices who have taken refuge here."
Matthew Olsen

Of the three other individuals, two were previously arrested as part of an earlier related complaint in March: Fan "Frank" Liu and Matthew Ziburis.

The third individual, Qiang "Jason" Sun, remains at large, prosecutors for the Eastern District of New York said.

Miller and Taylor were arrested in June, they said.
The charges

The charges include obstruction of justice for allegedly destroying evidence after FBI agents asked about use of a law enforcement database with information on US-based Chinese dissidents.

The Chinese embassy in Washington did not respond to a request for comment.

https://www.jpost.com/international/article-711480

#15966574 at 2022-03-28 23:41:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20192: Ebake To Victory Edition

Biden DOJ Kills Trump-Era Program To Catch Chinese Spies

Republican Senators led by Marco Rubio (FL) have penned an angry letter to Biden AG Merrick Garland over the DOJ's decision to end a program to thwart Chinese spies.
https://www.scribd.com/document/566986994/6889A095A8E066C135607A202217E6C7-03-24-22-rubio-lee-et-al-to-doj-re-china-initiative#download&from_embed

The letter asks why the 2018 Trump administration 'China Initiative' - which was designed to identify and prosecute people hacking, stealing trade secrets, and conducting economic espionage for China within the US, according to Just the News.

"On Feb. 23, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it was effectively ending the China Initiative and implementing a new 'Strategy for Countering Nation-State Threats,' which will subsume the China Initiative's work in addition to efforts related to countries such as Russia, Iran, and North Korea," reads the Thursday letter.

In a speech announcing the termination of the China Initiative, Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen of the Justice Department's National Security Division said that while China "stands apart" as a "brazen" espionage threat, a "broader approach" is needed to confront threats from a "variety" of countries. Olsen called this effort a "strategy for countering nation-state threats."

Republican senators expressed concern that the new approach is ill-defined and therefore may not be effective at specifically combating nefarious activities conducted by the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP). -JtN

"In light of the continuing national security threat posed by the CCP, and the lack of clarity surrounding DOJ's new 'Strategy for Countering Nation-State Threats,' we write seeking clarity with respect to the changes in DOJ's approach," reads the letter. "Specifically, its enforcement efforts to counter espionage and other illicit activities conducted by the CCP."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-doj-kills-trump-era-program-catch-chinese-spies

#15748454 at 2022-02-28 23:39:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19913: Patriots Fight World Wide Edition

One America News Network
?DOJ Ends Trump-Era China Initiative Program To Fight Espionage

httpFILE - Matthew G. Olsen, of Maryland, nominee to be an Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice, attends a Senate Judiciary Hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 14, 2021. The Justice Department is ending its China Initiative. The move announced Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022, by Assistant Attorney General Olsen amounts to a rebranding of a Trump-era program that was created to crack down on economic espionage by Beijing but that critics said had unfairly scrutinized Chinese professors on the basis of their ethnicity. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, File)

OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 11:05 AM PT - Friday, February 25, 2022
Joe Biden's Justice Department ended a Trump-era program that countered Chinese espionage against the United States. This week, the DOJ said the 45th president's China Initiative was not broad enough and claimed it created a climate of fear among Asian Americans.

The China program, launched by Donald Trump's administration in 2018, was established to prevent China's theft of U.S. trade secrets, hacking and undue influence on U.S. education as well as politics.

However, Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen seems more concerned it depicts the department as racist instead of keeping the focus on combating threats from the Chinese Communist Party.

"But by grouping cases under the China Initiative rubric, we helped give rise to a harmful perception that the Department of Justice applies a lower standard to its investigation and prosecution of criminal conduct related to that country," Olsen explained. "Or that we in some way view people with racial, ethnic or familial ties to China differently."

The decision comes in response to a request by far-left activists who say the China initiative was "unfairly targeting Chinese culture and heritage." However, some national security experts are worried the pullback could threaten the ability for the U.S. government to counter some of the Chinese government's activities in the states.

s://www.oann.com/doj-ends-trump-era-china-initiative-program-to-fight-espionage/

#15702723 at 2022-02-23 22:46:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19855: Patriots' Bread Edition

faqueeeeeee

Makes sense. DOJ's Matthew Olsen was with the soft-on-China think tank, Foreign Policy for America, before joining the administration.

>Justice Department shutters China Initiative, launches broader strategy to counter nation-state threats

https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1496613968584089611
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1496612858884460558

#15443704 at 2022-01-23 17:58:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19534: Freedom Convoy Edition

As DoJ Forms 'Domestic Terror Unit', US Army Begins Guerilla Training to Battle American 'Freedom Fighters'

Last week, citing an "elevated threat of violent extremism," the United States Justice Department announced that it is establishing a specialized unit focused on domestic terrorism. Pulling on the heart strings of those ignorant enough to think that January 6, 2021 was "as bad as Pearl Harbor and 9/11," - instances in which thousands of people suffered horrifying deaths - the department's top national security officer stoked fear over America's new number one threat... itself.

"We have seen a growing threat from those who are motivated by racial animus, as well as those who ascribe to extremist anti-government and anti-authority ideologies," Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen said.

Using language made famous in the W era of post 9/11 warmongering speeches, Jill Sanborn, the executive assistant director in charge of the FBI, said these lone extremists or small cells are seeking to carry out violence against unsuspecting Americans. Only this time, those extremists are not the people in caves on the other side of the world, they are your neighbor, the coach of your son's little league team, your local doctor, and anyone else the government paints with the extremely broad brush of terroristic tendencies.

"This includes both homegrown violent extremists inspired primarily by foreign terrorist organizations as well as domestic violent extremism," Sanborn said.

Obviously violence against innocents is unacceptable, immoral, and unjustified. And, those who seek to carry out this violence are enemies to a free society. However, when the state begins to view its own citizens as "the enemy," history shows us that nothing good follows.

Nevertheless, it has begun.

This month, the US Army will begin training for this very scenario and the American people are the new enemy.

From The Charlotte Observer, "Realistic guerrilla war exercises to be fought across rural NC counties, Army warns":

A "realistic" guerrilla war will be fought across two dozen North Carolina counties this month, with young soldiers battling seasoned "freedom fighters," according to the U.S. Army.

The two-week "unconventional warfare exercise" will be staged Jan. 22-Feb. 4 on privately owned land. And it will be realistic enough to include the sounds of gunfire (blanks) and flares, the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School said in a news release.

Exact times, locations and exercise specifics are not provided.

However, advance publicity is intended to make sure civilians - including law enforcement officers - don't mistake the fighting for terrorism or criminal activity, which has happened in the past.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/as-doj-forms-domestic-terror-unit-us-army-begins-guerilla-training-to-battle-american-freedom-fighters/

#15359650 at 2022-01-12 21:49:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General: #19428: What Is TRUTH to RINOs? Edition

Is the DOJ Readying Biden's Brownshirts to Deal With His Political Opposition?

After targeting parents who object to a radical social justice curriculum at local school meetings, the Department of Justice has thrown all caution to the wind. With much fanfare, the DOJ announced it will be establishing a unit focused on "domestic terrorism." To justify turning the full force of the government against its own citizens, Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen told the Senate Judiciary Committee, "We have seen a growing threat from those who are motivated by racial animus, as well as those who ascribe to extremist anti-government and anti-authority ideologies."

That description sounds like the summer of 2020 to most Americans. After all, there is no definition of domestic terrorism. The only legal definition of terrorism is the one for international terrorism. It describes activities that are violent or dangerous to human life and that are intended to intimidate or coerce civilians or influence the policy of a government. The months-long Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots that killed at least two dozen people, injured thousands of law enforcement officers, and caused approximately $2 billion in covered damage seem to fit it.

Those riots tried to destroy the federal court in Portland, threatened to kill Mayor Ted Wheeler, forcing him to move, and took over a section of the city of Seattle. The mobs burned businesses and police precincts to the ground, and at its most threatening, breached the police line on the White House lawn forcing President Trump to go to a secure area at the behest of the Secret Service. The chaos led directly to an increase in violent crime nationwide. The self-described aims of these groups were political, from defunding the police to inserting an equity agenda into every area of government.

Of course, these are not the domestic terrorists that concern the DOJ. At least for now, the far-left rioters support the Biden regime. Their national temper tantrum seemed to end as soon as it appeared Joe Biden won the election. That is a coincidence very few commentators point out. Instead, the DOJ and the administration point to Jan. 6, when a few hundred Americans entered the Capitol to object to the certification of the 2020 election. Law enforcement quashed the riot in a few hours, and Mitch McConnell convened the Senate to certify the election.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/stacey-lennox/2022/01/12/is-the-doj-readying-bidens-brownshirts-to-deal-with-his-political-opposition-n1548842

#15351054 at 2022-01-11 17:46:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19417: Continued Lies from the Stand. Perjury. Among Others.... Edition

Justice Department Creating Specialized Unit Focused on Domestic Terrorism Due to Growing Threat of 'Anti-Authority' Ideologies

The Justice Department is creating a unit focused on domestic terrorism.

Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday on the threat of domestic terrorism.

Olsen said he created a specialized unit focused on domestic terrorism due to a growing threat of 'anti-authority' ideologies.

Of course Olsen isn't talking about BLM or Antifa.

"We have seen a growing threat from those who are motivated by racial animus, as well as those who ascribe to extremist anti-government and anti-authority ideologies," Olsen said.

Watch Tuesday's hearing here:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/justice-department-creating-specialized-unit-focused-domestic-terrorism-due-growing-threat-anti-authority-ideologies/

#15163849 at 2021-12-09 15:03:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19183: E-Bake Evergrande Default Edition

U.S. Navy seized missiles, petroleum products from Iranian military

The U.S. Navy seized 171 surface-to-air missiles, eight anti-tank missiles and 1.1 million barrels of petroleum products worth $261 million from two Iranian ships in the Arabian Sea in three separate instances since 2019, the Department of Justice said in a press release on Tuesday.

The Navy seized the weapons in November 2019 and August 2020 during what is called routine operations in the sea. The arms shipments were headed to Iran-backed militants fighting in war-torn Yemen, and were organized by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which the U.S. deems a terrorist organization, according to the DOJ.

Wednesday's announcement followed the U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. issuing a final order of forfeiture for the arms shipments on Nov. 15, the DOJ wrote.

The petroleum was officially foreited in October 2021, after American officials won approval from a Washington, D.C., court to sell the fuel taken from four Iranian ships the year prior. The U.S. proved the Iranian military would have profited from the sale of the petroleum to militias in Yemen.

"The actions of the United States in these two cases strike a resounding blow to the Government of Iran and to the criminal networks supporting Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps," said Matthew Olsen, the assistant attorney general with the Justice Department's National Security Division.

Matthew Graves, U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., also applauded the Navy sailors for the seizure of valuable arms and fuel from an enemy country.

"These two cases demonstrate that not only can we disrupt the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' ability to finance its operations through petroleum sales, but we can also thwart its ability to use the proceeds of such sales to arm its terrorist proxies and export terrorism abroad," Graves said in the press release.

The U.S. and Iran have escalated tensions in the Middle East following the assassination of top general Qasem Soleimani in January 2020. Tehran struck an American military base in retaliation for his death that month, and the country has also been blamed for an October drone strike on a U.S. base in Syria and the seizure of a tanker in the Arabian Sea.

The U.S. is in the midst of indirect talks with Iran over potentially restarting a 2015 nuclear deal that limited Iranian nuclear development in return for the lifting of economic sanctions.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-navy-seized-missiles-petroleum-015014665.html

#11510710 at 2020-11-07 01:22:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14697: Never Give Up Edition

>>11510599
Staple Street Capital was started inside the Carlyle Group. http://staplestreetcapital.com/Team
The co-founders of Staple Street Capital, Stephen D. Owens and Hootan Yaghoobzadeh, are veterans of The Carlyle Group and Cerberus Capital Management, respectively, and first worked together in Carlyle's US Buyout Group starting in 1998. Our team has completed over 100 transactions involving complicated corporate carve outs, operational turnarounds, management led buyouts, public-to-privates, restructurings, refinancings and/or recapitalizations.

They bought Dominion
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dominion-voting-systems-acquired-by-its-management-team-and-staple-street-capital-300681752.html
Deepstate Private Spy Network
bout a year ago, I wangled a media invitation to a "leadership dinner" in northern ?Virginia sponsored by the Intelligence and National Security Alliance. INSA is a powerful but ?little-known coalition established in 2005 by companies working for the National Security Agency. In recent years, it has become the premier organization for the men and women who run the massive cyberintelligence-industrial complex that encircles Washington, DC.

The keynote speaker was Matthew Olsen, who was then the director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). He used his talk to bolster the morale of his colleagues, which had recently been stung by the public backlash against the NSA's massive surveillance programs, the extent of which was still com-ing to light in the steady release of Edward Snowden's huge trove of documents. "NSA is a national treasure," Olsen declared. "Our national security depends on NSA's continued capacity to collect this kind of information." There was loud, sustained applause.

One of those clapping was a former Navy SEAL named Melchior Baltazar, the CEO of an up-and-coming company called SDL Government. Its niche, an eager young flack explained, is providing software that military agencies can use to translate hundreds of thousands of Twitter and Facebook postings into English and then search them rapidly for potential clues to terrorist plots or cybercrime.

It sounded like the ideal tool for the NSA. Just a few months earlier, Snowden had leaked documents revealing a secret program called PRISM, which gave the NSA direct access to the servers of tech firms, including Facebook and Google. He had also revealed that the NSA and its British counterpart, the GCHQ, had special units focused on cracking encryption codes for social media globally.

SDL's software is perfectly designed for such a task. It might be useful, say, for a team of SEALs on a covert operation trying to make sure their cover wasn't blown by somebody on social media-something that almost happened when an alert Twitter user in Pakistan picked up early signs of the secret US raid on Osama bin Laden's compound. And, of course, we don't know the extent to which the NSA could deploy it.
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-private-contractors-have-created-shadow-nsa/
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Much more in link.
DOMINION IS A CLOWN OP

#10563155 at 2020-09-08 05:55:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13517: Can't Sleep? We Can Help Edition

Jan. 29, 2014 -
'''DIA Director Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn fielded questions on cybersecurity and unauthorized disclosures during testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in today's annual Worldwide Threat Assessment.

Flynn joined Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director James Comey and Director of the National Counterterorrism Center Matthew Olsen.

In their opening statements, SSCI Chairman Dianne Feinstein and Vice Chairman Saxby Chambliss both expressed their appreciation for the men and women serving in the IC for their dedication and service, a sentiment shared by every senator who spoke. The panel fielded questions about Syria, terrorist threats (including any aimed at the upcoming Winter Olympics in Sochi), cybersecurity and resource constraints on the IC.

This is the first of three scheduled hearings where Flynn will testify in open session on emerging threats. He is scheduled to appear before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Feb. 4 and before the Senate Armed Services Committee Feb. 11.'''

https://www.dia.mil/News/Articles/Article-View/article/566936/dia-director-joins-ic-leaders-for-worldwide-threat-assessment-on-capitol-hill/

#2192294 at 2018-07-17 23:26:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2764: Dark to Light Edition

Four members of Trump's Homeland Security council step down to protest 'morally repugnant' family separation

The Trump administration's immigration policies and the "morally repugnant" practice of separating children from accompanying adults has prompted four people on the Homeland Security advisory council to step down, a new report said.

Former Clinton-era Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig, former Democratic congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, former DHS deputy attorney counsel in the Obama administration David Martin, and former Obama-era Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Matthew Olsen wrote in a letter Monday to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen that they were resigning.

They said the agency did not confer with the advisory council prior to executing a zero tolerance policy to prosecute all illegal immigrants, which led to the separation children from the adults who crossed with them into the U.S. "Were we consulted, we would have observed that routinely taking children from migrant parents was morally repugnant, counter-productive and ill-considered," they wrote, according to the Washington Post. "We cannot tolerate association with the immigration policies of this administration, nor the illusion that we are consulted on these matters."

Last month, Trump signed an executive order to prevent the splitting up of apprehended immigrant families. The government must reunite separated children between the ages of 5 and 17 with their families later this month, under a court order. Martin and Holtzman sent additional letters to Nielsen in which they condemned other aspects of the administration's immigration policies. This included the administration's attempt to secure a border wall. "These actions have fueled polarization, alienated state and local governments, and moved us much further from a sustainable, effective, and strategically sensible immigration enforcement program," Martin wrote. Holtzman also claimed that Trump's presidency has turned DHS "into an agency that is making war on immigrants and refugees."

The Homeland Security secretary selects advisory council members to fill two-year terms. The members meet periodically and participate in research and recommendations for the agency.

https:// www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/four-members-of-trumps-homeland-security-council-step-down-to-protest-morally-repugnant-family-separation

#2041026 at 2018-07-05 15:05:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2575: Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Edition Was In

>>2040985
Throwing darts. Worth a dig on Matthew Olsen? Former National Counterterrorism Director of Barry. Now involved with the wanna takedown Trump organization National Security Action as their General Counsel chief legal adviser.