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State Department Employee Arrested and Charged With Concealing Extensive Contacts With Foreign Agents


A federal complaint was unsealed today charging Candace Marie Claiborne, 60, of Washington, D.C., and an employee of the U.S. Department of State, with obstructing an official proceeding and making false statements to the FBI, both felony offenses, for allegedly concealing numerous contacts that she had over a period of years with foreign intelligence agents.

The charges were announced by Acting Assistant Attorney General Mary B. McCord for National Security, U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips of the District of Columbia and Assistant Director in Charge Andrew W. Vale of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.

“Candace Marie Claiborne is a U.S. State Department employee who possesses a Top Secret security clearance and allegedly failed to report her contacts with Chinese foreign intelligence agents who provided her with thousands of dollars of gifts and benefits,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General McCord. “Claiborne used her position and her access to sensitive diplomatic data for personal profit. Pursuing those who imperil our national security for personal gain will remain a key priority of the National Security Division.”

“Candace Claiborne is charged with obstructing an official proceeding and making false statements in connection with her alleged concealment and failure to report her improper connections to foreign contacts along with the tens of thousands of dollars in gifts and benefits they provided,” said U.S. Attorney Phillips. “As a State Department employee with a Top Secret clearance, she received training and briefing about the need for caution and transparency. This case demonstrates that U.S. government employees will be held accountable for failing to honor the trust placed in them when they take on such sensitive assignments”

“Candace Claiborne is accused of violating her oath of office as a State Department employee, who was entrusted with Top Secret information when she purposefully mislead federal investigators about her significant and repeated interactions with foreign contacts," said Assistant Director in Charge Vale. "The FBI will continue to investigate individuals who, though required by law, fail to report foreign contacts, which is a key indicator of potential insider threats posed by those in positions of public trust.”

The FBI arrested Claiborne on March 28. She made her first appearance this afternoon in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

According to the affidavit in support of the complaint and arrest warrant, which was unsealed today, Claiborne began working as an Office Management Specialist for the Department of State in 1999. She has served overseas at a number of posts, including embassies and consulates in Baghdad, Iraq, Khartoum, Sudan, and Beijing and Shanghai, China. As a condition of her employment, Claiborne maintains a Top Secret security clearance. Claiborne also is required to report any contacts with persons suspected of affiliation with a foreign intelligence agency.

Despite such a requirement, the affidavit alleges, Claiborne failed to report repeated contacts with two intelligence agents of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), even though these agents provided tens of thousands of dollars in gifts and benefits to Claiborne and her family over five years. According to the affidavit, the gifts and benefits included cash wired to Claiborne’s USAA account, an Apple iPhone and laptop computer, Chinese New Year’s gifts, meals, international travel and vacations, tuition at a Chinese fashion school, a fully furnished apartment, and a monthly stipend. Some of these gifts and benefits were provided directly to Claiborne, the affidavit alleges, while others were provided through a co-conspirator.

According to the affidavit, Claiborne noted in her journal that she could “Generate 20k in 1 year” working with one of the PRC agents, who, shortly after wiring $2,480 to Claiborne, tasked her with providing internal U.S. Government analyses on a U.S.-Sino Strategic Economic Dialogue that had just concluded.

Claiborne, who allegedly confided to a co-conspirator that the PRC agents were “spies,” willfully misled State Department background investigators and FBI investigators about her contacts with those agents, the affidavit states. After the State Department and FBI investigators contacted her, Claiborne also instructed her co-conspirators to delete evidence connecting her to the PRC agents, the affidavit alleges.

Charges contained in a criminal complaint are merely allegations, and every defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

The maximum penalty for a person convicted of obstructing an official proceeding is 20 years in prison. The maximum penalty for making false statements to the FBI is five years in prison. The maximum statutory sentence is prescribed by Congress and is provided here for informational purposes. If convicted of any offense, the sentencing of the defendant will be determined by the court based on the advisory Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

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Reply #1 - Apr 15th, 2017 at 9:46am
 
At her court appearance today, Claiborne pleaded not guilty before the Honorable Magistrate Judge Robin M. Meriweather. A preliminary hearing was set for April 18.

The FBI’s Washington Field Office is leading the investigation into this matter. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys John L. Hill and Thomas A. Gillice for the District of Columbia and Trial Attorney Julie Edelstein of the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section.

2017 03 29 Claiborne Complaint and Redacted Affidavit
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Reply #2 - May 13th, 2017 at 8:26am
 
Comey should now be investigated , convicted and serve gaol time ..

Comey blurred lined and had an identity crisis , thinking he was a federal judge saying Clinton " should not be prosecuted .. "



http://www.westernjournalism.com/former-fbi-assistant-directors-weigh-comeys-fir...

Former FBI Assistant Directors Weigh In On Comey’s Firing


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"Jim Comey danced with the devil ..."
By Andrew Kerr
on May 10, 2017 at 8:19am

Three former assistant directors of the FBI
joined Fox News Tuesday night to share their thoughts on President Donald Trump’s decision to fire James Comey.

All three thought Comey had it coming, and some were glad to see it happen.

Former FBI Assistant Directors James Kallstrom, Bill Gavin and Ron Hosko all thought Comey sealed his fate after his July 5 press conference in which he assumed the role of a prosecutor and recommended no charges against Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.

“I’m glad it happened,” Kallstrom said of Comey’s firing. “I think Jim Comey way back almost a year ago kind of forgot he was the FBI director.”

“Jim Comey danced with the devil, and later on down the road talked about this great investigation the FBI conducted,” he said.

“Of course, they had no subpoena power, they couldn’t compel any investigation or search warrants. They had to beg people to look at things. The interview of Hillary Clinton, in my view, was a sham.”

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Comey “threw the FBI under the bus, and the reputation of the FBI under the bus,” Kallstrom added. “That’s what I am very mad about and have been very mad about for a long time.”

Gavin said Comey’s firing was “something that had to happen.”

“Jim Comey is a bright guy, he’s an ethical guy, but the bottom line is when he made a prosecutive opinion in an investigative matter he made a mistake,” he added.

“We all make mistakes in life — this was a big one that was obvious to everyone.”

Hosko said Comey’s firing was “shocking” but he wasn’t surprised in the least bit.

“Certainly there are going to be some FBI who think [Comey] went too far back in July,” Hosko said. “I think, that is, reasonable minds can agree, the province of the prosecutor.”

He thought Comey was forced to “throw himself on a grenade” over former Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s airport tarmac meeting with former President Bill Clinton. Comey’s firing was the “price he had to pay,” Hosko said.
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Reply #3 - May 13th, 2017 at 8:27am
 
this is clear sedition from Keith Olbermann



Keith Olbermann Commits High Treason: Calls For Foreign Gov'ts To Overthrow U.S.
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TEAM CLINTON IS FREAKING OUT OVER TRUMP’S ACTION TO FIRE COMEY - IS HILLARY NEXT ON THE HITLIST?
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President Donald Trump On His Firing Of James Comey (Extended Exclusive) | NBC Nightly News


Published on May 11, 2017
In an NBC News exclusive interview, President Trump revealed to Lester Holt that he was preparing to fire FBI Director James Comey regardless of recommendations from the attorney general and deputy attorney general.
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Reply #6 - May 13th, 2017 at 11:41am
 
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What Comey Offered a Russian Hacker, 1625


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Reply #7 - May 13th, 2017 at 12:03pm
 
Drain the Swamp


You know if they drained the swamp Trump would be first down the drain.
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Reply #8 - May 13th, 2017 at 12:05pm
 
Embarrassedit_is_the_light wrote on May 13th, 2017 at 8:30am:


TEAM CLINTON IS FREAKING OUT OVER TRUMP’S ACTION TO FIRE COMEY - IS HILLARY NEXT ON THE HITLIST?


Yes it is typical fascist state behaviour, rig the police and security service and then send them after your opposition. Well picked up light.
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Reply #9 - May 13th, 2017 at 12:08pm
 
Dnarever wrote on May 13th, 2017 at 12:03pm:
Drain the Swamp


You know if they drained the swamp Trump would be first down the drain.


dont pander to this lunatic. Leave him alone in this stupid thread
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AUSSIE: "Speaking for myself, I could not care less about 298 human beings having their life snuffed out in a nano-second, or what impact that loss has on Members of their family, their parents..."
 
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Reply #10 - May 13th, 2017 at 2:30pm
 
yes move along if you prefer fake news ..

as the facts continue to be revealed without any outside comment from MSM zombies needed ..

we continue

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/11/yevgeny-nikulin-alleged-russian-...

Russian charged with breaching U.S. firms says FBI attempted to coerce confession over Clinton hack


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FILE - In this March 28, 2017, file photo, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gestures while speaking before the Professional Businesswomen of California in San Francisco. Clinton will speak at BookExpo, the industry’s annual national gathering on June 1,

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times - Thursday, May 11, 2017
A Russian man wanted by the Justice Department on charges connected to hacking U.S. companies now claims the FBI offered him immunity in exchange for accepting responsibility for cyberattacks targeting former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
Yevgeny Nikulin, the alleged hacker, laid the claim to Russian media Thursday in a letter sent from a Czech Republic prison cell amid an international extradition battle currently underway between Washington and Moscow.
FBI agents promised Mr. Nikulin money, American citizenship and a free apartment for taking the fall over hacking Mrs. Clinton’s campaign, he alleged in a letter published Thursday by Nastoyashchoe Vremya, a Russian-language website.
“[They told me:] you will have to confess to breaking into Clinton’s inbox for [President Trump] on behalf of [Russian President Vladimir Putin],” Mr. Nikulin wrote, as translated by The Moscow Times.
“He was offered to falsely testify that he was cooperating in the attack on the Democratic Party,” defense attorney Martin Sadilek said Thursday, the Associated Press reported.
The FBI declined to comment.
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Reply #11 - May 13th, 2017 at 3:05pm
 

Good work Donald!

Trump is learning the games that the Dems play and winning. Now he has the proof of their crimes thanks to Comey. Since after his sacking he had no time to wipe out the evidence on his computer.

  How prescient of Hillary when she said during the election to her staff "that bastard will see us all hang".

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I love the fact that President Trump doesn't have to answer to the Establishment's Elite, Washington D.C. Insiders, or the castrated MSM & disgraced Pollsters.

President Donald J. Trump works only for the American People.

They are his employers, & he is their employee, hired to do the job he's doing.  Wink



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Reply #13 - May 14th, 2017 at 11:46am
 


FBI Agents Furious Over Clinton Case, 1626
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Reply #14 - May 14th, 2017 at 2:50pm
 
Panther wrote on May 14th, 2017 at 9:19am:
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I love the fact that President Trump doesn't have to answer to the Establishment's Elite, Washington D.C. Insiders, or the castrated MSM & disgraced Pollsters.

President Donald J. Trump works only for the American People.

They are his employers, & he is their employee, hired to do the job he's doing.  Wink



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Love it - thanks Panther
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