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1. Wait, what?.... 
2. This sentence: ..."in early 2014, agents of a Chinese intelligence service targeted Hansen for recruitment"...
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4. Why would the U.S. government want a plea? Why agree to a plea? The evidence gathered within the almost four-year-long year sting operation is irrefutable....
scribd.com/doc/402019783
scribd.com/doc/402019783
5. Back to the DOJ quote: ...." in early 2014, agents of a Chinese intelligence service targeted Hansen for recruitment"...
7. ..."China-linked hackers appear to have gained access to sensitive background information submitted by U.S. intelligence and military personnel for security clearances that could potentially expose them to blackmail, the Associated Press reported on Friday."...
8. ..."data on nearly all of the millions of U.S. security-clearance holders, including the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency and military special operations personnel, were potentially exposed in the attack on the Office of Personnel Management."
9. ..." it was “a different set of OPM systems and data” to that of the hack disclosed last week and did involve background data and security clearances."...
10. ..."the records of up to 4 million people had been compromised, making it one of the biggest known attacks on U.S. federal networks."...
11. ..."a form authorities believed to have been accessed in the breach involving the intelligence and military personnel, Standard Form 86, required applicants to fill out deeply personal information about mental illnesses, drug & alcohol use, past arrests and bankruptcies"...
12. ..."contacts and relatives, potentially exposing any foreign relatives of U.S. intelligence employees to coercion"...
13. ..."U.S. government officials and cyber analysts say Chinese hackers are using high-tech tactics to build massive databases that could be used for traditional espionage, such as recruiting spies, or gaining access to secure data on other networks"...
14. "official said the stolen information would enable an intelligence service to chart out ... U.S. gov. employees and build pictures of individuals and their families, potentially enabling them to figure out ways to target or blackmail people for espionage purposes"..
15. Two hacks of OPM (back in 2013) giving Chinese hackers information on U.S. Intelligence, Military, contractors and families therein; everyone with any level of security clearance; enabling "blackmail or coercion".
reuters.com/article/us-cyb…
reuters.com/article/us-cyb…
16. And now back to the Ron Hansen pleading: ..." in early 2014, agents of a Chinese intelligence service targeted Hansen for recruitment and he began meeting with them regularly in China."...
justice.gov/opa/pr/former-…
justice.gov/opa/pr/former-…
17. I'm not much of a conspiracy-minded person.... but the coincidences here deserve much more digging. Was Ron Rockwell Hansen a blackmail victim as an outcome of the Chinese OPM hack?
18. How many more intelligence officials, or people within the larger intelligence community writ large, could potentially be compromised?
19. Anyone in media feel like asking that specific question to the DOJ directly?
And maybe ask them if that's the reason *they* preferred a plea agreement over an uncomfortable public trial?
How much more risk is "out there"?
And maybe ask them if that's the reason *they* preferred a plea agreement over an uncomfortable public trial?
How much more risk is "out there"?
20. /END
