Another Chinese national arrested for spying
The Department of Justice on August 25th arrested a Chinese national as he was trying to leave the country with classified military computer software.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection stopped Hu Haizhou, a researcher from the University of Virginia’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering [who] also work[ed] for a Chinese military-linked university too, before he could board a flight to Qingdao, China, from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on Tuesday, said an FBI special agent in an 11-page affidavit filed on Friday in federal court in Virginia.
According to the agent, Matthew Rader, CBP investigators questioned Hu and searched his electronic devices, which revealed UVA-research-related files stored on his laptop, including “bio-inspired research simulation software code” developed by “Professor 1.” Bio-inspired research relates to studying the complexities of flying and swimming creatures in nature and applying that to manned flight or submersibles — often with military applications.
Hu “did not have lawful, authorized access to this material, and he admitted that Professor 1 would not want him to have it and would be upset to learn that HU possessed it,” the FBI said. The professor, who runs the multiuniversity Flow Simulations Group, has been developing this code over the last 17 years and is sponsored by the U.S. government’s National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research. The FBI special agent said that probable cause existed to charge Hu federally with fraud-related illicit computer intrusions and the theft of trade secrets.
More here.
These stories are beginning to sound repetitious, as they keep happening on almost a weekly basis. It appears that until the Trump administration the swamp in Washington had absolutely no interest for decades in protecting this nation from spying and the theft of military secrets from China or from anyone else.
Seems par for the course. At best our so-called elites are incredibly incompetent. At worst they have shown themselves to be traitors, with their loyalties aligned more with foreign powers than with the United States.
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The Department of Justice on August 25th arrested a Chinese national as he was trying to leave the country with classified military computer software.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection stopped Hu Haizhou, a researcher from the University of Virginia’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering [who] also work[ed] for a Chinese military-linked university too, before he could board a flight to Qingdao, China, from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on Tuesday, said an FBI special agent in an 11-page affidavit filed on Friday in federal court in Virginia.
According to the agent, Matthew Rader, CBP investigators questioned Hu and searched his electronic devices, which revealed UVA-research-related files stored on his laptop, including “bio-inspired research simulation software code” developed by “Professor 1.” Bio-inspired research relates to studying the complexities of flying and swimming creatures in nature and applying that to manned flight or submersibles — often with military applications.
Hu “did not have lawful, authorized access to this material, and he admitted that Professor 1 would not want him to have it and would be upset to learn that HU possessed it,” the FBI said. The professor, who runs the multiuniversity Flow Simulations Group, has been developing this code over the last 17 years and is sponsored by the U.S. government’s National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research. The FBI special agent said that probable cause existed to charge Hu federally with fraud-related illicit computer intrusions and the theft of trade secrets.
More here.
These stories are beginning to sound repetitious, as they keep happening on almost a weekly basis. It appears that until the Trump administration the swamp in Washington had absolutely no interest for decades in protecting this nation from spying and the theft of military secrets from China or from anyone else.
Seems par for the course. At best our so-called elites are incredibly incompetent. At worst they have shown themselves to be traitors, with their loyalties aligned more with foreign powers than with the United States.
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In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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The swamp is being drained. DC is in a panic.
Another case:
Friday, August 28, 2020
“Chinese National Charged with Destroying Hard Drive During FBI Investigation into the Possible Transfer of Sensitive Software to China
A Chinese national and researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles has been arrested on federal charges of destroying evidence to obstruct an FBI investigation after he was observed throwing a damaged hard drive into a dumpster outside his apartment, the Justice Department announced today.
Guan Lei, 29, of Alhambra, was arrested pursuant to a one-count criminal complaint unsealed this afternoon during his initial appearance in United States District Court.
According to the complaint, Guan is being investigated for possibly transferring sensitive U.S. software or technical data to China’s National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) and falsely denying his association with the Chinese military – the People’s Liberation Army – in connection with his 2018 visa application and in interviews with federal law enforcement.”
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chinese-national-charged-destroying-hard-drive-during-fbi-investigation-possible-transfer
And an entirely different front of President Trump’s war against the swamp:
Thursday, August 27, 2020
U.S. Marshals recover 25 missing Ohio children in 20 days
https://www.fox46.com/news/national-news/u-s-marshals-recover-25-missing-ohio-children-in-20-days/
Friday, August 28, 2020
4 people arrested in Florida as part of major sex trafficking bust in Georgia
https://weartv.com/news/local/4-men-arrested-in-florida-as-part-of-major-sex-trafficking-bust-in-georgia
Friday, August 28, 2020
Nearly 40 missing children rescued during Georgia sex trafficking bust
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/more-than-dozen-children-rescued-georgia-sex-trafficking-bust/OHEHJUSWWRBQRHQMBQPGQPORAI/
Only stupid brilliant researchers are getting cought. Most of them will take the laptops to an embassy or will meet their handlers handing over the information.
China has been given such freedom to our information that they’ve gotten extremely sloppy, like they don’t care if they get cought… They have a get out of jail free card from the Clintons and the Obamas administration.
If they can’t steal it, they can always get Joe Biden and his son to buy 51% of the corporation and “own” the sensitive military technology and hardware.
(It’s OK, many of the congressman do it… And Joe has done it before) sarcasm, it’s not ok.
Former congressman and staffers now working for the communist party.
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/issue-chinese-malign-influence-both-trump-and-biden-are-right-167861
James,
I also was thinking about posting the trafficking. Past years.
2,200 kids since 2003, 2019;
https://abcnews.go.com/US/100-sex-trafficking-victims-rescued-us-amid-busts/story?id=64845453
2018;
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/authorities-find-123-missing-children-in-just-one-day-during-a-michigan-sex-trafficking-operation/ar-BBOaeIp?fbclid=IwAR1ygYw23jr4ew9_zJVxpBYQskqvKwpo_52UNa4j8jNoD8u0Ge9W64DftSE
Yep Max, when I say things like Trump is fighting Evil and that this is a spiritual battle I’m not being melodramatic.
This is just the tip of the iceberg of the horrors of the swamp that are going to be exposed.