WaPo's Robert Woodward reported in 1997 that DOJ "uncovered evidence that representatives of the People's Republic of China sought to direct contributions from foreign sources to the Democratic National Committee before the 1996 presidential campaign" washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politic…
And there's this from the New Yorker at that same time. Nora & Eugene Lum were the parents of Nickie Mali Lum Davis, recently in the news on a certain China matter. newyorker.com/magazine/1997/…
Woodward's 1997 WaPo report provides context to @lincolnproject: "The Chinese effort to win influence with the Clinton administration can be traced to 1993 .... During the Reagan and Bush administrations, the Chinese government felt comfortable dealing with Washington."
Woodward nailed the Bush-Beijing faction of the Republican Party back in 1997, and how the CCP needed to buy the Clintons: "During the 1992 presidential campaign, authorities in Beijing spoke openly about wanting Bush to win reelection because he was an 'old friend' of China."
Bob Woodward, 1997: "[Bill] Clinton had criticized the Bush administration during the campaign for 'coddling' Beijing and giving China most-favored-nation trade status after the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square."
Woodward: "After [Bill] Clinton defeated Bush [41], Chinese officials were uncertain about how to deal with the new administration, officials said, even though as president, Clinton essentially adopted the Bush policy toward Beijing...."
Woodward, 1997: "The Chinese Foreign Ministry has long urged the leadership in Beijing to increase its lobbying efforts in Washington, arguing that China has lagged behind Taiwan and Israel in trying to influence U.S. policy."
Woodward: "Some investigators suspected a Chinese connection to the current fund-raising scandal because several DNC contributors and major fund-raisers had ties to Beijing."
Woodward: "Another reason investigators suspected a Chinese connection was the role of John Huang, a former Commerce Department official and DNC fund-raiser....Huang was given a top-secret clearance at Commerce after what Republicans have called a lax background investigation..."
Woodward: "Huang retained his top-secret clearance after he left the Commerce Department to become a DNC vice chairman in December 1995.
...Huang was scheduled to attend 37 intelligence briefings, including briefings on China, and saw more than two dozen intelligence reports."
Huang pled guilty to "felony conspiracy" charges relating to campaign finance violations. He got off with a year of probation. cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/st…
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🧵In 2005, the bipartisan Commission on Election Reform, co-chaired by Jimmy Carter and James A. Baker III, expressed concerns about electronic voting systems.
2) Carter-Baker report, pp. 25-27: Voting machines lack transparency.
“Voting machines must … be transparent. They must allow for recounts and for audits, and thereby giver voters confidence in the accuracy of the vote tallies.”
“The accessibility and accuracy of DREs [direct recording electronic machines], however, are offset by a lack of transparency, which has raised concerns about security and verifiability. In most of the DREs used in 2004, voters could not check that their ballot was recorded correctly. Some DREs had no capacity for an independent recount.”
3) Carter-Baker report, p. 27 says there are no standards of transparency for voting machines (and, by implication, software):
"The standards for voting systems ... should assure ... transparency in all voting machines. Because these standards usually guide the decisions of voting machine manufacturers, the manufacturers should be encouraged to build machines in the future that are both accessible and transparent ….”
In a 62-page ruling, a federal magistrate judge agrees with @dominionvoting and sacks attorney Stefanie Lambert from defending @PatrickByrne from Dominion.
Case 1:21-cv-02131-CJN-MAU.
The judge is with the squeaky-clean US District Court for the District of Columbia.
What is in the emails being produced in discovery that Dominion wants to keep secret?
@dominionvoting @PatrickByrne Download the 62-page PDF of the court decision siding with Dominion to sack Patrick Byrne's attorney, Stefanie Lambert.
I have posted this on my Academia account in the public interest so that people may download it for free. I am not party to this case. academia.edu/122888005/DOMI…
What is in those Dominion emails that is so damning that the company is pulling out all the stops to prevent their disclosure?
Could it have to do with @Smartmatic? Could it be related to election fraud? Did someone at Dominion commit a crime? What do you have to say, @dominionvoting?
🧵 Breaking: @Smartmatic President and COO Roger Piñate has surrendered to US authorities in Miami to face federal grand jury charges of international corruption and bribery.
@smartmatic The @Smartmatic co-founder and executive put up $8.5 million in bail, but did not enter a plea of guilt or innocence, according to the Nuevo Herald, because he says he doesn't have a "permanent attorney."
@smartmatic Second @Smartmatic executive charged in the same international corruption and bribery crime: Jorge Miguel Vásquez, vice president of development.
He pled not guilty to international corruption and money laundering charges and was freed on $1 million bail.
🧵 Let's crowdsource some answers to these five questions, one at a time. I welcome @Smartmatic CEO @antoniomugica to help us out, for transparency's sake:
1) Did the Venezuelan engineers of the Delaware-incorporated Smartmatic, including Mugica and Roger Piñate, create the software to help Hugo Chavez cheat his way out of the 2004 recall referendum? (1/5)
@smartmatic @antoniomugica 2) The following year, in 2005, did Smartmatic buy Sequoia (which controlled 22 percent of the US electoral market) and if so, where did it get the cash? (2/5)
@smartmatic @antoniomugica 3) Was Sequoia, with its Smartmatic software developed for Hugo Chavez, sold to Dominion in or about 2010 and involved with the Philippine elections that year?
President of Smartmatic is among four indicted today by federal grand jury for bribery and fraud related to electronic voting systems.
DOJ names Roger Alejandro Piñate Martinez in the news release, but does not identify him as president of Smartmatic. justice.gov/opa/pr/four-me…
Smartmatic says its Presdident Piñate "played a critical role in planning and executing the world’s largest election using optical scanners (in the Philippines) and in Smartmatic winning the largest election contract in US history (in Los Angeles)." smartmatic.com/us/team-member…
Smartmatic President Piñate, indicted today for bribery and fraud, "co-founded Smartmatic with two partners. In the 20 years since he has been responsible for carrying out successful projects in the USA, Latin America, Europe and Asia," the company says. smartmatic.com/us/team-member…