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Lately, there has been a rash of cases in which people in the military and intelligence community were caught spying for Communist China and handing over significant information to the enemy.
And then got slaps on the wrist.
A U.S. Navy service member was sentenced today to 27 months in prison and ordered to pay a $5,500 fine for transmitting sensitive U.S. military information to an intelligence officer from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in exchange for bribery payments.
According to court documents, Petty Officer Wenheng Zhao, 26, aka Thomas Zhao, of Monterey Park, California, pleaded guilty in October 2023 to one count of conspiring with the intelligence officer and one count of receiving a bribe.
27 months in prison and a fine smaller than the bribes he got from China.
But in the past, there had been arguments that plea deals had to be cut because the evidence wasn’t airtight. But what happens when the evidence is right there on video?
A former CIA officer and contract linguist for the FBI accused of spying for China for at least a decade pleaded guilty Friday in a federal courtroom in Honolulu.
Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 72, has been in custody since his arrest in August 2020. The U.S. Justice Department said in a court filing it amassed “a war chest of damning evidence” against him, including an hourlong video of Ma and an older relative — also a former CIA officer — providing classified information to intelligence officers with China’s Ministry of State Security in 2001.
The video shows Ma counting the $50,000 received from the Chinese agents for his service, prosecutors said.
During a sting operation, he accepted thousands of dollars in cash in exchange for past espionage activities, and he told an undercover FBI agent posing as a Chinese intelligence officer that he wanted to see the “motherland” succeed, prosecutors said.
The secrets he was accused of providing included information about CIA sources and assets, international operations, secure communication practices and operational tradecraft, charging documents said.
As part of an agreement with prosecutors, Ma pleaded guilty Friday to a count of conspiracy to gather or deliver national defense information to a foreign government. The deal calls for a 10-year sentence, but a judge will have the final say at Ma’s sentencing scheduled for Sept. 11. Without the deal, he faced life in prison.
So why was there a deal?
There couldn’t possibly be any more evidence against him. Everything is there on video. What exactly did prosecutors need from Ma that required them to make a deal with him, and potentially cut his sentence from life in prison to 10 years (and that’s if the judge doesn’t decide to give him a pass anyway) that required this deal?
This is the equivalent of taping a serial killer at work and then discussing why he loves killing people, and then cutting a plea deal for 10 years.
It makes no sense. And I have to wonder if the Biden administration’s people don’t have a hand in this.
It makes perfect sense. The Democrats love the CCP, and dream of having that kind of power in the U.S., and are working to bring CCP style management here. Suppression of speech, social credit scores, an all knowing, all seeing, all-encompassing state apparatus, state agenda and propaganda, speech codes disseminated through every corporate, medical and media entity. Does that sound familiar? How about “whole of government approach”. It’s no coincidence they developed the Kung Flu in China, praised China for how they handled it and then copied their response to said illness.
Why, you ask? 81 million votes, that’s why.
Put all fascist members of the filthy ANTI-DEMOCRATIC PARTY, in prison for life.
Watch out for any California CCP chink.
If he gets time, consider how much will that be reduced by time already served.
love ya book domestic enemies….very informative….
I’m sure it wouldn’t be because they (the CCP) controls President Biden. Surely he still does everything in the best interest of the American people, even though China owns him and his son Hunter. Right? Right??? The balloon was nothing. China buying up farmland is nothing. China buying up land surrounding military bases is nothing. China hacking AT&T in February was a warning shot to us. But surely Biden truly loves the country he scored 40 touchdowns for in that infamous Super Bowl game.
“It makes no sense. And I have to wonder if the Biden administration’s people don’t have a hand in this.”
Is this a rhetorical statement? Being threatened with death and death of Alexander Yuk Ching Ma’s family if Ma spills the beans on all the compromised treasonous Americans whether elected or not which, based on current discovery the Bidens always are on the top of the list as the bag men for the money launderers., Ma took the deal of 27 months and smaller fine to keep his mouth shut! Remember the Chinese so-called ‘weather balloon’ that ,mysteriously drifted over key areas of USA ran it’s mission then after a phone call to CCP who gave approval the crooked Joe Briben installed administration to shoot it down. After it was shot down fortune cookies spilled out telling us USA citizens “We’re being played and we’ve been had”
CCP bought a lot of the bad loans that resulted in the 2008 financial debacle and thus own a lot of real estate in USA
“Why is a CIA traitor caught on video getting a deal instead of life in prison?” Are you kidding? Why isn’t the traitor being executed?
Who cares …
… I was training Chinese spies in the 80s …
They were paid. i wasn’t.
If you’re not aware of the Bleep America Agenda, Bleep America first, Bleep America Last, Bleep All Americans, except when it suits the narrative or the cameras are on …
Where have you been?
Under a rock?
The real question here is … why was this guy punished at all? Who did he cross?
That’s the real story.
And let me hasten to add … I bet my teeth is his crime was forcing a Chi-com to pay.
He forgot the rules 1. Bleep Americans 2. When in doubt refer to rule No. 1.
He should have given his handlers whatever they wanted for free … and then billed his expense account for minor treason …
… he would have been fine.
Joe’s just trying to set a precedent of leniency for his upcoming trial.
But WHY was he allowed to continue to operate for 20 years after being recorded?? Unless they KNEW and were feeding him fake info that could damage the chicoms then it makes no sense! It’s pretty evident that the CIA needs to be RENAMED – that “intelligence” part seems to be misplaced!
What would be the RESULTS of this case in a CHINESE Court with the SPYING being done FOR the USA?? Mortar shell firing squad or just a quick, close “shave”??