Chinese company hacked Clinton's server, got copy of every email in real-time
Washington, August 29, 2018
A Chinese state-owned company reportedly hacked former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email server, then inserted code that forwarded them a copy of virtually every email she sent or received after that -- a revelation President Trump is demanding be investigated.  
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Daily Caller reported that the firm operating in the D.C. area wrote code that was then embedded in the server and generated a “courtesy copy” for almost all her emails -- which was then forwarded to the Chinese company.
The code reportedly was discovered in 2015 by the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG), which then warned FBI officials of the intrusion.
A source briefed on the matter confirmed to Fox News the details of the Caller’s reporting, and said that the ICIG was so concerned by the revelation that officials drove over to the FBI to inform agents -- including anti-Trump agent Peter Strzok -- of the development after it was discovered via the emails' metadata.
The source told Fox News the hack was from a Chinese company, describing it as a front for Chinese intelligence.
A second source briefed on the matter told Fox News that officials outside of the FBI indicated code on the Clinton server suggested a foreign source was receiving copies of emails in real time.
The hacking report caught the attention late Tuesday of President Trump, who warned that the FBI and DOJ should act or “their credibility will be forever gone.”
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying responded to Trump’s tweet, saying: "This isn't the first time we've heard similar kinds of allegations.”
"China is a staunch defender of cybersecurity. We firmly oppose and crack down on any forms of internet attacks and the stealing of secrets," she said, according to Reuters.
The ICIG and the FBI declined to comment.
Clinton's office did not respond to a request for comment, but a spokesman told The Daily Caller, “The FBI spent thousands of hours investigating, and found no evidence of intrusion. That’s a fact.”
Fox News reported in March that Strzok was advised of an irregularity in the metadata of Clinton’s server that suggested a possible breach, but no follow-up action was taken.
 
Further, a May 2016 email from Strzok, obtained by Fox News earlier this year, said “we know foreign actors obtained access” to some Clinton emails, including at least one “secret” message “via compromises of the private email accounts” of Clinton staffers.
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, asked Strzok in a House Oversight Committee hearing in July whether he was briefed about an anomaly on Clinton’s emails found by ICIG officials.
“You were given that information, and you did nothing with it,” Gohmert told Strzok in July.
Strzok said he remembered meeting with the ICIG officials, but did not remember the contents of the meeting and that every allegation was forwarded to experts who looked at it carefully.
“If there was a lead, I gave it to the team,” Strzok said as part of a heated back-and-forth between the two. Strzok was fired this month after controversy surrounding anti-Trump texts he sent to FBI lawyer Lisa Page, with whom he was having an affair.
Reached by phone Tuesday, Gohmert told Fox News on Tuesday that the emails were obtained by a foreign country’s intelligence, but he declined to name the country in question. He said there was no sign that Strzok and the FBI had taken any action when informed by the ICIG, and no indication that they even informed Clinton.
He told Fox News he was surprised that his questioning about it in the Strzok hearing in July didn’t generate more media attention, but noted that the press seized on a comment he made shortly afterward when he asked Strzok, “How many times did you look into your wife’s eyes and lie about Lisa Page?”
“It’s critically important,” he said, when asked about the significance of the server revelation. “There are countries that would pay a tremendous amount of money to know what Clinton was saying, doing and thinking through her emails, what she’s doing, who she’s going to meet, what she thought about meetings, not necessarily classified but critically important and those emails were compromised and people like Strzok, when they were briefed, knew this would devastate her chances of being elected and they weren't about to do anything to hurt those chances.”
Then-FBI Director James Comey concluded the FBI’s investigation into Clintons emails in July 2016, saying that while Clinton had been “extremely careless” in her handling of classified information, he would not recommend charges to the DOJ.
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Thursday, November 28, 2019
Chinese company hacked Clinton's server, got copy of every email in real-time
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
US teenager's TikTok video on Uyghur 'concentration camps' in China's Xinjiang goes viral
US teenager's TikTok video on Uyghur 'concentration camps' in China's Xinjiang goes viral
Nov 24 2019
A US teenager whose TikTok video about the detention of Uyghur Muslims in China went viral says her account has now been blocked by the Chinese-owned social network.
Key points:
- The short clip was disguised as a make-up tutorial
- It has been watched more than 1.4 million times and "liked" nearly 500,000 times on TikTok
- She referred to China's mass detention as "another Holocaust"
Feroza Aziz managed to have the 40-second video spread across the platform by disguising it as a short make-up tutorial, before accusing China of setting up "concentration camps" and "throwing innocent Muslims in there".
The clip has been watched more than 1.4 million times and "liked" nearly 500,000 times on the app.
The 17-year-old posted on Twitter that TikTok has since blocked her account.
"I am blocked from posting on tik tok for a month. This won't silence me," she wrote.
This has been disputed by TikTok.
A spokesperson for the company said the user "would still be able to post to this account as it is an active account".
The spokesperson said TikTok had banned a previous account belonging to Ms Aziz "after she posted a video of Osama bin Laden, which is a violation of TikTok's ban on content that includes imagery related to terrorist organisations".
"Another account of hers — including the eyelash video in question — [was] not affected and the video continues to receive views," the spokesperson said in an email.
"TikTok does not moderate content due to political sensitivities."
In her most recent Instagram post, she addressed why she made the video and referred to China's mass detention as "another Holocaust".
"Hi guys, I made a video about the situation in China with how the government is capturing the Uyghur Muslims and placing them into concentration camps.
"Once you enter these camps, you're lucky if you get out. Innocent humans are being murdered, tortured, raped, receiving shock therapy, and so much more that I can't even describe.
"They are holding a genocide against Muslims and they're getting away with it.
"The UN failed to stop this genocide in the summer, we can't let that happen again. We can't be silent on another Holocaust that is bound to happen.
"Spreading awareness does wonders," Ms Aziz said.
"We got the UN to step in and help Sudan because we spread awareness, so we can do the same thing for China. "
Earlier this year the United States and more than 30 countries condemned what they called China's "horrific campaign of repression" against the Uyghur Muslim minority in the western region of Xinjiang.
Since 2017, more than 1 million members of the province's Muslim minorities have been rounded up, detained and subjected to a program of mass indoctrination in a network of "vocational training" camps spread over the region in China's far west.
China says the camps are aimed at stamping out extremism.
Arrested Liu Fundraiser’s Organizations Tied to Chinese Communist Party
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Arrested Liu Fundraiser’s Organizations Tied to Chinese Communist Party
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NEW YORK—The recently arrested fundraiser for City Comptroller John Liu serves in an executive position for two Chinatown organizations linked to Fujian Province, China, that have close ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). One of the organizations is also linked to organized crime.
The arrest on Nov. 16 of Pan Xinwu for illegally raising funds for New York City Comptroller John Liu’s election bid calls attention to Liu’s own financial dependence on the Fujianese groups since at least 2007, when they raised tens of thousands of dollars for his comptroller bid.
The group doing most of the heavy lifting during 2007 and 2008 was the Fukien Benevolent Association of America, commonly known simply as the Fukien American Association (FAA). Pan Xinwu is the executive vice chairman of that group, according to Chinese media reports.
On July 10, 2007, the FAA raised $36,000 for Liu, according to the pro-communist newspaper China Press. The following year on July 20 the same group raised at least $70,000, according to World Journal, another Chinese newspaper.
The day after the arrest, China Press explained that Pan Xinwu has helped raise money for John Liu in the Chinese community for “a long time,” and also has forged connections between the Liu campaign and the Chinese community.
He’s done the same for other campaigns, too, the piece says.
According to Chinese media, Pan is also the executive vice chairman of the United Fujianese American Association (UFAA), which has taken a low profile since earlier this year.
Both groups are strongly pro-Beijing.
The FAA was founded in 1942, before communist domination of the mainland. It later fell under Beijing’s sway. The group now notes on its website that the association “firm and unyielding, openly stands on the front line of the battle, and has become a crack force in Chinatown opposing independence and pushing unification.”
The last part refers to combating attempts by Taiwan to become an independent state, and instead promoting its assimilation into communist China.
The website notes that the association does battle with “anti-China forces,” protects the reputation of the homeland, and has received high acclaim from the Chinese regime.
The other group, the UFAA, was founded in New York state in 1990. Its website is no longer online, but there is a record of the site stored on Oct. 17, 2010, in the Internet Archive.
The About Us section indicates that it engages primarily in political activities supporting officials of and positions taken by the CCP. Highlights include dispatching 300 members to rally for Party chief Hu Jintao when he visited Harvard University in 2006, organizing an Olympic Torch activity in celebration of the Beijing Olympics in 2008, “resolutely opposing” President Obama’s meeting with the Dalai Lama in 2009, and “strongly criticizing” the Dalai Lama and his “splitter activities.”
On Taiwan, the UFAA also follows the Party line. The organization says it has “made an active contribution” to opposing Taiwanese independence. The activities page is dominated by pro-communist political exercises.
Liu has ties with yet another Fujianese group, called the Fujian Consolidated Benevolent Association USA (FCBA). Liu appears the most of any elected official standing with the head of that group, Chairman Yu, in the organization’s photo gallery.
The FCBA registered as a nonprofit only in August of 2009, according to state records, and appears to function more directly on behalf of the CCP than the others. For instance, when Hu Jintao visited New York City in 20011, the FCBA organized the welcome group that greeted him.
The Fujianese organizations Liu has been linked to are known as “Tongs,” and function as consolidated groups representing, or appearing to represent, overseas Chinese communities.
They are assiduously cultivated by Communist Party officials, and over the years have become channels for the regime to exert influence overseas. Zhong Guiren, chairman of the Returned Overseas Chinese Federation in the Dongcheng District of Beijing, detailed his work in this regard in a testimonial on the website of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office on Sept. 26, 2006.
He writes: “In the past, the leaders of the Chinese organizations and associations in New York City’s Chinatown were all pro-Taiwan; now they have tilted toward mainland China, and they have increasingly agreed to a peaceful reunification of China and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.”
The leading expert on Chinese gangs, author and Rutgers professor Ko-lin Chin, told The Epoch Times in an earlier interview “Once that organization, the Fukien American Association, became one of the leading [China]-supported organizations, they became the host of almost all these Chinese officials who are visiting New York.”
In the 1990s the president of the FAA was regularly referred to by media as the “commander-in-chief of illegal smuggling.”
The FAA is also affiliated with the Fuk Ching gang, according to a report from the National Institute for Justice (NIJ), a branch of the U.S. Department of Justice. The Fuk Ching gang is known for human trafficking, extortion, protection rackets, prostitution, and slavery of illegal immigrants, according to the NIJ.
Assassination Attempt of Journalist Uncovered: China
Monday, November 25, 2019
Uyghurs and their supporters decry Chinese ‘concentration camps,’ ‘genocide’ after Xinjiang documents leaked
Uyghurs and their supporters decry Chinese ‘concentration camps,’ ‘genocide’ after Xinjiang documents leaked
“The Chinese government’s cruel, bigoted treatment of Muslims and ethnic minorities is a horrifying human rights violation,” Warren wrote. “We must stand up to hatred and extremism around the world.”
The more than 400 pages of documents, leaked, according to the Times, by a member of the Chinese political establishment, included internal speeches by President Xi Jinping and other officials, information about the surveillance and control of the Uighur population and internal investigations on local officials.
The Times called the documents “one of the most significant leaks of government papers from inside China’s ruling Communist Party in decades” and a strong indication that turmoil within the ruling party is rising over the repression of the Muslim Uighurs.
The papers confirm reports that more than 1 million people have been detained in internment camps as the Chinese government seeks to strip Uighurs of their identity and indoctrinate them into being secular and loyal party supporters.
Xi still told party members in secret speeches that religious extremists should be treated with “absolutely no mercy,” the Times reported.
The documents included a script for officials to follow when explaining to students returning to the region why their parents had disappeared, the Times reported.
The World Uyghur Congress called China a “country with concentration camps” in a retweet.
“Leaks to the @NYTimes illustrate the cold, calculated nature of China’s policy of cultural genocide towards Uyghurs,” the organization retweeted.
Are we supposed to tolerate the @Olympics in a country with concentration camps?
The IOC has a BIG problem on its hands if so.
Leaks to the @NYTimes illustrate the cold, calculated nature of China's policy of cultural genocide towards Uyghurs.#NoRightsNoGames2022
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The Washington Post reported Sunday that few Uighurs are able to escape the widespread surveillance, and even fewer are able to make it to the United States. A Uighur family now living in Northern Virginia has caught the attention of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Scholars, activists and others tweeted their concerns and analysis of the leak.
One remarkable take-away from the secret Xinjiang Papers is how CCP authorities referred to the program with the word "concentration" 集中 from the very beginning. Chinese officials were indignant when foreign critics called these "concentration camps" but it's their own word!
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This is just a different form of GENOCIDE. The whole world should stand in solidarity with #Uyghur #Uyghurs Stop inhuman Chinese policies. twitter.com/nytimes/status…
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Whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered behind closed doors will be shouted from the housetops for all to hear.
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China is getting away with another Holocaust and @nytimes got hold of hundreds of leaked documents to prove it. This is an unknown genocide and we need to do everything we can to stop it in its tracks. nyti.ms/379s0ch?smid=n…
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It’s EXTREMELY rare for anything of substance to leak out of the Chinese regime, so this story is a big deal. It’s also very disturbing nytimes.com/interactive/20… via @NYTimes
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So far, we had glimpses of China’s “re-education” campaign against its Muslim population through word of mouth & scattered footage of the facilities & surveillance tech used.@nytimes has now obtained 403 pages of classified documents on what’s happening: nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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International news story of the weekend - broken by @nytimes based on leaked Chinese Govt papers: the inside story of the imprisonment of a million Uighur Muslims by China.
Will any of our politicians say a word in protest, or will they just keep taking China’s ‘hospitality’? twitter.com/nytimes/status…
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Whistleblowers of the world unite. And note the official who quietly released 1000s of #Uighur from the #Xinjiang camps. nytimes.com/interactive/20… via @NYTimes
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This is an incredible get by The New York Times, and a devastating look into the ruthless bureaucratic efficiency of the Uighur detention camps.
"Mr. Xi urged the party to emulate aspects of America’s “war on terror” after the Sept. 11 attacks." nyti.ms/379s0ch
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Very comprehensive piece by the @nytimes It’s release shows that discontent over the ‘training centers’ might be greater than previously thought but lays bare the rationale for their establishment. #HumanRights #Uighur nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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The @nytimes reporting on the Uighur internment camps in Xinjiang is truly chilling stuff.
But if you think this is just a China thing, remember that the US did something very similar to Native families and is still locking up kids at the border.nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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Laura Murphy, a professor of human rights and contemporary slavery at Sheffield Hallam University in England, invited those who work against slavery and trafficking to collaborate.
Other forms of forced labor include the necessarily coercive environments for police, camp guards and teachers who should no doubt be considered likely victim-perpetrators.
Coda did an excellent visual story on this a few months back.youtu.be/StJe2dIbCbc
Folks who are working on anti-slavery, anti-trafficking, and workers' rights need to be aware of/strategizing against this extraordinary but expansive program of forced labor that is accompanying the mass internment of over a million people. Want to collab?
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Rose Kulak, a human rights campaigner for Amnesty International Australia, said the papers confirmed speculation about what was happening to Uighurs in the Xinjiang region.
1/4: #TheXinjiangPapers reveal what we already know is happening in #Xinjiang province to #Uyghurs. @amnestyOz nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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