>Where's McCabe???
Andrew McCabe at Duke: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
American Grand Strategy, sponsored in part by the Duke Department of Political Science, presented a conversation with Andrew McCabe and Peter Feaver. Andrew McCabe a Duke alumn '90, served as Deputy Director of the FBI from February 2016 until January 2018. He spoke with Peter Feaver, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy.
>Andrew McCabe at Duke: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
Duke University Department of Political Science
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How China’s ‘Dr. Charles’ peddles claims of access to U.S. power
BEIJING — “Dr. Charles” pitches himself as a conduit to American power. His social media pages and the website of his organization — audaciously called the United Nations Chinese Friendship Association — are a who’s who of Florida Republicans and glitzy Mar-a-Lago dinners.
He boasts about meeting Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, and President Trump’s elder sister Elizabeth in the banquet hall of Mar-a-Lago, “at the invitation” of the Republican National Committee. He’s taken photos at Mar-a-Lago with women in glittery evening gowns or selfies with Trump in the background, giving a speech at his Florida club.
In other brag-book-style photos, he’s posing, in a red silk Chinese-style jacket, in front of “Trump Pence victory” signs at Republican events.
But “Dr. Charles” appears to be neither a doctor nor a Charles. And his organization, with a self-styled imprimatur of the United Nations, similarly appears to be a commercial influence-peddling operation looking for a veneer of respectability.
“Dr. Charles,” whose real name is Li Weitian, according to bank records, has become a central figure in the Chinese effort to get close to Trump and influential Republicans.
He goes to the president’s Florida country club so regularly that Yujing Zhang — the Chinese woman arrested at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday — told Secret Service agents that she was there to meet “her Chinese friend Charles.”
In an encounter with a receptionist, Zhang also mentioned a group with a similar name to the United Nations Chinese Friendship Association.
“Charles” proclaims himself to be the secretary general of the group, which was legally registered in Delaware on June 15, 2011, according to a statement posted on Business Wire in 2012.
The same statement said that at the end of November that year, “Charles” met with You Lantian, who was deputy director of the United Front Work Department. This department is an influential unit of the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee, responsible for coordinating these kinds of influence operations.
A photo of “Charles” and You appeared on the front page of the association’s website, which the Miami Herald reported was taken down after the paper ran a story about “Charles,” whom the paper identified as going by Charles Lee.
Since establishing the association, he appears to have devoted himself to collecting photos with influential people in the United States, often opportunistic selfies when the “celebrity” isn’t even aware of being photographed.
On QQ, a Chinese social media app, he posted photos of himself with U.N. Secretary General António Guterres, and his predecessor, Ban Ki-moon.
There’s also a photo that appears to be of “Dr. Charles” posing with Trump against a blue background. Trump is giving his trademark thumbs up and Charles is decked out in a gray Mao jacket, but it’s not clear if the photo is genuine.
His QQ profile page shows “Charles,” arms crossed, on the cover of a magazine called “People of the Century.”
“Charles, who began the UNCFA,” says the magazine cover, which he posted on QQ on March 6. It is not clear if the magazine cover is genuine.
Just last month, he posted an ad for a tour of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where he claimed former president Barack Obama would be speaking. “You can participate in a meeting with Obama and other celebrities, take photos with them,” he said, listing the tour dates as June 18 to 25.
Obama’s office said he had no plans to speak at West Point in June.
Earlier, “Charles” had offered a trip to Omaha in May to “shake hands and take photos” with billionaire investor Warren Buffett.
In August, he paid to have his face beamed onto the Nasdaq billboard in Times Square — and then submitted an article about it to a Chinese publication called “People of China Weekly,” an imitation website made to look like it’s part of the People’s Daily, the main newspaper of the Communist Party of China.
Clare Bronfman secretly (and illegally) had access to Edgar Bronfman Sr's computer for years. This may have exposed the very dirty dealings he had when working to secure Holocaust Reparations from the Swiss Banks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_D'Amato
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_D'Amato
While he was in office, he was chair of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, and was a member of the Senate Finance Committee. As a member of the former, he became a leading critic of the Clinton administration regarding the Whitewater scandal, and during 1995 and 1996, he chaired the hearings-heavy Senate Special Whitewater Committee. As a member of the latter, he championed the cause of Holocaust survivors trying to recover relatives' funds from accounts in Swiss banks.
>Max Boot