Today’s Washington Post is reporting that according to a private security company report, the People’s Republic of China (Chicom) continued to “… penetrate the networks of U.S. companies to steal their secrets despite a pledge by China’s president that they would not do so …”.

According to the Crowd Strike timeline, in the 24 days since Chicom President Xi Jinping promised US President Barack Obama that the Chicoms would cease trying to hack into US computer networks to steal secrets, there have been numerous attempts on nine days to hack into US technology sector networks and numerous attempts on two days to hack into US pharmaceutical sector networks.  And those are just the efforts that have been detected.

According to this report in The Hill today, the Chicom government-sponsored group Deep Panda has been responsible for these most recent hacks.  The Hill article also states, “Deep Panda has also been tied to cyberattacks on U.S. foreign policy think tanks and individuals who are experts on the Middle East.”

So if a Chicom government-supported hacking group is going after US foreign policy think tanks and individuals who are experts on the Middle East, OpenCdA wonders if that same group might not have been put some effort in hacking the private email server of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton which was found to contain sensitive national security information?  Gee, ya think?

We hope our series of posts has made the picture clearer.

On Thursday, September 24, 2015,  ABC News reported that, “The FBI has arrested a politically prominent Chinese millionaire [Ng Lap Seng], the alleged secret source of foreign money in a campaign finance scandal during the Clinton administration, on charges he lied about why he brought more than $4.5 million in cash into the United States over the last two years.”

Our August 13, 2015, OpenCdA post entitled The Clinton Family Trie (Huang , Hsia, and Riady, Too) reminded readers of the connection between the Clintons and  Yah Lin “Charlie” Trie, a major fundraiser and long-time close friend of the President, who accepted a plea agreement in return for telling how he had routed illegal donations from the PRC to the Clinton Presidential Campaign.  The ABC news story makes the connection between Trie and Ng.

Here is a link to the the federal criminal complaint.

OpenCdA wonders …

Will President Barack Obama pull a Gerald Ford and pardon Hillary Clinton for all violations of specific federal criminal laws involving the almost-certain compromise of classified information in connection with her establishing and using her private email server while she was Secretary of State?

If he does, will her quid pro quo be little more than to quietly accept disqualification from seeking or holding any office under the United States regardless of whether that office is elected or appointed?  Will she also agree to have her security clearance revoked with prejudice and agree to never seek its reinstatement, reissuance, or renewal? (more…)

As exemplified by the lede from this Wall Street Journal article on August 19, much of the national skews media have focused their questions on how much damage disclosures about the presumed compromise of Hillary Clinton’s private email server will do to her campaign for President in November 2016.

It’s a reasonable question that goes directly to the question of Clinton’s suitability to have access to national security information, a requirement to be President of the United States, but even that is one which should be further down on the list of more important questions.

In our opinion, the question that should be number one is, “Presuming that all of the emails processed through Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server are now in the hands of technically competent foreign intelligence services, how much damage has been done to the national security of the United States?”

Determinations of any criminal, professional, or political liability assignable to Clinton and others entrusted to properly protect national security and other sensitive information all hinge on a full and complete answer to that question. (more…)