Well, so the MSM's managed to cause another panic for fun and profit, as the COVID-19 virus has reached US shores. A goodly percentage of the American populace is trying to squeeze their obese frames into their closets filled with stockpiles of Perrier and Lysol, while another percentage is picking the others' pockets and laughing in their sleeves. And while events nationwide are being cancelled, the Whacko Left braved the crowds and turned out for Super Tuesday. It's noteworthy that the American reaction has been the subject of considerable ridicule in China, where the political leadership has actually been doing something besides political posturing.
Politics aside, I think that a good way to stop plagues is by getting rid of swamp rats. In the Trump Administration, they've been doing a great job of stopping real epidemics of corruption and stupidity fostered by decades of the Deep State. Here's a batch of success stories drown out by the media hype.
Since we just mentioned China: it seems that the University of Tennessee has become the latest Academic institution whose commitment to diversity has come back to bite them. It seems that Professor Anming Hu, of UT's most sensitive research departments was caught by the FBI this week taking funding from NASA for technology projects which he developed and then sold to industries in China.
“Hu allegedly committed fraud by hiding his relationship with a Chinese university while receiving funding from NASA,” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers. “This is just the latest case involving professors or researchers concealing their affiliations with China from their American employers and the U.S. government. We will not tolerate it. The indictment alleges that beginning in 2016, Hu engaged in a scheme to defraud the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) by concealing his affiliation with Beijing University of Technology (BJUT), a university in China. Federal law prohibits NASA from using appropriated funds on projects in collaboration with China or Chinese universities. As alleged in the indictment, Hu’s false representations and omissions to UTK about his affiliation with BJUT caused UTK to falsely certify to NASA that UTK was in compliance with this federal law."
Like the previous cases referred to by Agent Demers, Hu hid his corrupt activities from the University Administration. His fate is what happens to corrupt academics when the guys at the top don't get a piece of the action.
Not all American Federal agents are as professional as Demers. DEA Agent Jose Irizarry of San Juan, Puerto Rico was arrested by his own agency after getting caught stealing federal funds intended for undercover sting operations.
"The indictment alleges that while working as an agent for the DEA in Miami and Cartagena, Colombia, Irizarry engaged in an illegal scheme to divert drug proceeds from undercover money laundering investigations into bank accounts controlled by himself and Gomez, their family members, and their criminal associates. To carry out the plot, Irizarry and his criminal associates are alleged to have opened a bank account with a stolen identity and then utilized the account to secretly send and receive drug proceeds from active DEA investigations."
This dirtbag actually had the gall to declare Bankruptcy while all of this was going on. While posing to the Court as indigent, Irizarry bought a home, a new car, and "multiple luxury items." Good riddance to another real Swamp Rat.
Henry Frese until recently had a top-level security position with the Defense Intelligence Agency. Now he's got a maximum security cell in the Federal Pen. Frese demonstrated that not all traitors sell out to foreign countries. He was selling out to our own Corporate Media.
Lest anybody think that Frese was a whistleblower; the information he sold was on foreign countries' weapons capabilities. These were published in unnamed media sources as 'exclusives'. By doing so, of course, the countries in question were alerted to our knowledge of their systems and to the fact that CIA/DIA operatives were among them.
And it gets worse: "According to court documents, Frese and Journalist 1 lived together at the same residential address from January 2018 to November 2018. Throughout 2018 and 2019, Frese and Journalist 1 “followed” each other on Twitter, and on at least two occasions Frese re-Tweeted Journalist 1’s Tweets announcing the publications of articles containing NDI classified at the Top Secret level.
"In or about April of 2018, Journalist 1 introduced Frese to a second journalist (Journalist 2). Subsequently, Frese began texting and speaking with Journalist 2 by telephone. Between mid-2018 and late September 2019, Frese orally transmitted NDI classified at the Top Secret level to Journalist 1 on 12 separate occasions, and orally transmitted NDI classified at the Secret level to Journalist 1 on at least four occasions. Frese knew the information was classified at the Secret and Top Secret levels because the intelligence products from which he had learned the classified information had visible classification markings as to the classification level of the information, and the intelligence products accessed by Frese were stored on secure, classified government information systems."
For obvious reasons, this story didn't make headlines in the MSM. I wish that the FBI had exposed these two 'journalists' too; but no matter. It's just a further example of the kinds of scum who comprise the American Media these days.
I have to admit that swamp-draining is a lot more productive than worrying over pandemics that may never come; or dough-head Democrats who are never going to get elected. Trump's getting the job done, but it's a big swamp.
