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irisblue

(32,974 posts)
Wed Jan 17, 2018, 10:19 AM Jan 2018

With the arrest of the ex CIA agent will Pres Xi of China

Still be trumps' good friend?
From the NYT
January 16, 2018
WASHINGTON — A former C.I.A. officer suspected by investigators of helping China dismantle United States spying operations and identify informants has been arrested, the Justice Department said on Tuesday. The collapse of the spy network was one of the American government’s worst intelligence failures in recent years.

The arrest of the former officer, Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 53, capped an intense F.B.I. inquiry
that began around 2012, two years after the C.I.A. began losing its informants in China. Investigators confronted an enduring mystery: How did the names of so many C.I.A. sources, among the agency’s most dearly held secrets, end up in Chinese hands?..end snip

This is bad

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With the arrest of the ex CIA agent will Pres Xi of China (Original Post) irisblue Jan 2018 OP
Why did he return to the US? MissB Jan 2018 #1
Glad we got him but it's horrible that he killed so many of our friends. lagomorph777 Jan 2018 #2

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
2. Glad we got him but it's horrible that he killed so many of our friends.
Wed Jan 17, 2018, 10:41 AM
Jan 2018

Obviously, we won't be able to recover from this while Turd and his dog Rex are in charge, but we need to address it pronto after the impeachment.

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