WTO: "China is bad because it won't comply with our anti-corruption rules and regulations."
Also, WTO: "Dafuq happened to all our people on the inside!!!"
the author is desperately carrying water for US empire yet still manages to paint the CIA as stupid and incompetent
yeah, was about to post that.
completely ignoring the actual subject of the article, the first half of the first paragraph OP quoted just reads as massive projection.
Literally threw so much money at advancing the careers of corrupt officials that not even their notoriously tightly-monitored media could cover it up or hide it. They threw so much money at it that they blew their own cover.
To uncover China's nefarious plot to...???
Wowee sure looks like the CIA can only operate when the chosen country lets them operate -- isn't this meant to the service of the best and brightest?
Its always fun seeing your country referenced as a political football between superpowers
Heat map Belt and Road and you’d see our activity happening. It’s where the targets are
On that note: the day before the Beirut blast, there was a change in Lebanon's Minister of Foreign Affairs - from Nassif Hitti to Charbel Wehbe.
Hitti was pro-IMF and wanted the government to take on their debts. The government repeatedly voted against it. Hitti resigned August 3rd and called Lebanon a "failed state."
The new guy, Wehbe, is very anti-imperialist.
He received some "Internal Hero of Venezuela" medal from Chavez, one of the country's highest honors.
He wants to re-establish diplomatic relations with Syria.
He supports Belt and Road, which was going to invest in Lebanese ports.
His first day in office, the Beirut Blast happened. I have been wondering for months if the CIA paid someone off to do that.
Sure, but you can intentionally "mismanage." I would imagine a lot of sabotage tactics could look like an accident.
Yeah, if you know what CIA operations look like, there are big red flags. But no smoking gun.
But to most people it sounds like conspiracy nonsense.
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OK but, seriously, :amerikkka:
Yep. The US government sees China as it's biggest threat to the imperial vicegrip it has on the world, and the B&R as the main thrust of that threat.
Before Xi’s purges, petty corruption within the agency was ubiquitous, former U.S. intelligence officials say, with China’s spies sometimes funneling money from operations into their own “nest eggs”; Chinese government-affiliated hackers operating under the protection of the Ministry of State Security would also sometimes moonlight as cybercriminals, passing a cut of their work to their bosses at the intelligence agency.
Under Xi’s crackdown, these activities became increasingly untenable.
:xi-lib-tears:
:xi-clap:
:party-sicko: China used stolen data to expose CIA operatives in Africa and Europe:party-sicko:
It couldn't have been more on the nose even if they were dead center in a Fort Meade server room.
U.S. officials believed that Chinese intelligence was giving their agents “instructions on how to pass a polygraph.”
Woah, buddy.
That kinda makes me question things, because officials know those are bullshit. They don't use them.
they still use them!
https://news.clearancejobs.com/2020/08/25/how-to-prepare-for-a-security-clearance-polygraph-examination/
https://www.military.com/veteran-jobs/security-clearance-jobs/passing-polygraph.htmlThat's wild. They don't work. You can't use them as evidence in any US court.
they don't have value as evidence in the sense that they are beatable, but they still have some value as a fear and compliance tool for personnel. US govt doesn't expect them to be foolproof but by regularly polygraphing agents you can raise the difficulty level for other govts to turn your people.
You clearly haven't been keeping up with your streaming stories.
They plug into a macbook now, much sexier.
I recall the beginning of Xi's anti-corruption campaign and Anglo media absolutely screeching about how Xi was just using it as an excuse to purge his enemies.
Turns out that his "enemies" also happened to be CIA agents.
I mean when was the last time the US said "oh yeah those journalists you arrested, our bad those were actually spies this time"?
My (25M) subordinate clauses (23F, 26F, 22M, 28M, 28M) have unionized
Wow 😡 starting to change my idea on China🇨🇳😡. Exposing our brave men🕴️ and women 🧑💻overseas🌊. That's pretty based😤.
