"The Chinese government killed or imprisoned 18 to 20 CIA operatives in China from 2010 to 2012."
"At the same time a Chinese-owned company operating in the Washington, D.C., area hacked Hillary Clinton’s private server throughout her term as secretary of state.
"The Chinese government was obtaining Hillary Clinton’s emails in real time.
Business Insider reported:
China killed or imprisoned 18 to 20 CIA sources from 2010 to 2012, hobbling U.S. spying operations in a massive intelligence breach whose origin has not been identified, the New York Times reported on Saturday.Investigators remain divided over whether there was a spy within the Central Intelligence Agency who betrayed the sources or whether the Chinese hacked the CIA’s covert communications system, the newspaper reported, citing current and former U.S. officials.The Chinese killed at least a dozen people providing information to the CIA from 2010 through 2012, dismantling a network that was years in the making, the newspaper reported.One was shot and killed in front of a government building in China, three officials told the Times, saying that was designed as a message to others about working with Washington.The breach was considered particularly damaging, with the number of assets lost rivaling those in the Soviet Union and Russia who perished after information passed to Moscow by spies Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen, the report said. Ames was active as a spy in the 1980s and Hanssen from 1979 to 2001.The CIA declined to comment when asked about the Times report on Saturday.
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From the UK Daily Mail: New report claims Chinese embedded spyware to automatically forward every email to and from her secret serverFrom NBC: Clinton Emails Held Indirect References to Undercover CIA Officers
. . . "Twenty-two of the emails were fully withheld from public release last week on the grounds that the information in them is “Top Secret,” meaning its disclosure now would cause “exceptionally grave damage to the national security.” But intelligence officials and congressional officials who oversee them are divided over whether that is actually the case."Nonetheless, the issue promises to dog Clinton’s presidential campaign. Since the messages are classified, people with the clearances to see them are free to characterize them as they wish. Republicans tend to see them as highly problematic for Clinton, while Democrats see the opposite. The FBI is investigating the security of Clinton’s email arrangement, and the FBI would also have jurisdiction to investigate the mishandling of classified information." . . .