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Five years after graft scandal, China's Chongqing says still dealing with aftermath
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BEIJING (REUTERS) - Five years after the charismatic and high-profile former Communist Party boss of the Chinese metropolis of Chongqing was jailed for life for graft, the city has yet to fully root out his "evil legacy", its top official said on Tuesday (March 6).
Bo Xilai, once seen as a contender for top leadership in the world's second-largest economy, was jailed in 2013 for bribery, corruption and abuse of power in a dramatic scandal kicked off by his wife's murder of a British businessman.
Scandal has followed the city, with another party boss, Sun Zhengcai, put under investigation for his own graft problems last year and charged with bribery last month. He had once also been considered a contender for a national leadership position.
President Xi Jinping, who has overseen a sweeping war on corruption since coming to power in late 2012, then parachuted in a close ally of his to take over Chongqing, Chen Min'er. Located in south-western China, Chongqing is one of China's most important cities.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the annual meeting of China's parliament, Chen said the cases of Bo and Sun were more than just ordinary corruption - more important was their political corruption.
Investigating these two men had removed "major political hidden dangers for the party", Chen said.
"They both are the source of the pollution of the political ecology, and they massively harmed Chongqing's officials," he added.
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"Everyone has heard that the evil legacy of Bo Xilai's thinking has yet to be purged, so we must purge it together with the pernicious influence of Sun Zhengcai," Chen said.
People must rally round the authority of the party's central leadership with Xi at its core and ensure that politically Chongqing moves and thinks as one with the party to ensure all its policies are fully put into practice in the city, he added.
"Under the correct leadership of the party centre, and under the care, concern and guidance of the general secretary, today's Chongqing is united as one in going forward, and tomorrow's Chongqing will be even better," Chen said, referring to Xi's formal title as head of the party.
The river that DID run red: Residents of Chinese city left baffled after Yangtze turns scarlet Sept 2012
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Clinton Turned Away High-Level Chinese Defector to Assist Beijing Leaders
Intelligence windfall on Chinese leadership lost after police defector betrayed
Details of the mishandling of the Wang defection have been kept secret by the Obama administration, and Clinton’s version of events were contradicted by U.S. officials and the official Chinese account. Instead of gaining long-term access to a valuable defector with inside knowledge of Chinese strategy and policies, Clinton contacted the Chinese government in Beijing and allowed security officials to take Wang into custody outside the U.S. consulate some 30 hours after he entered the property in a daring bid to flee China for the United States.
Weeks later he was charged with "defection" and other crimes, and in September 2012 he was sentenced to 15 years in prison—a lighter sentence than normal based on information he disclosed about his boss, regional Party chief Bo Xilai, the rising senior Communist leader who was later imprisoned for corruption.
Clinton, the State Department, and the Obama administration in general have regarded such operational secrecy as a nuisance and impediment to their work. Under President Obama, the administration suffered unprecedented leaks of intelligence and foreign policy information, notably from Wikileaks, which disclosed more than 250,000 State Department cables. Clinton also compromised secrets by using a private email server that the FBI believes likely was compromised by foreign spy services that intercepted data from her insecure email system.
Recently disclosed emails from Clinton’s private server reveal the Wang Lijun defection was discussed in communications with aides, raising the possibility that the Chinese could have learned of her internal discussions of the case if they had obtained access to the email server.
"The FBI did find that hostile foreign actors successfully gained access to the personal email accounts of individuals with whom Clinton was in regular contact and, in doing so, obtained emails sent to or received by Clinton on her personal account," an FBI report states.
Had the defection remained secret, intelligence agencies could have conducted a clandestine "exfiltration" operation to spirit Wang out of the country, current and former intelligence officials said.
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DOJ/FBI must provide Congress w/original doc stating exactly why Trump-Russia was opened. While SC investigates POTUS for winning elex w/o evidence of crime to win elex, there's a ton of evidence of misconduct re FISA abuse, how/why Clinton probe ended & Trump-Russia probe began.