[Newsbot]

Title: Tory MP apologizes for 'flirtatious' e-mails to Chinese reporter
Category: Political
Posted By: Curtman
Date: 2011-09-10 07:29:21
Canadian

[Curtman]

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A senior Harper government MP with foreign affairs duties has apologized for sending �flirtatious� e-mails to a journalist with China�s state-controlled news agency, a revelation that�s embarrassed Canada�s ruling Conservatives.

Bob Dechert, Conservative MP for Missisauga-Erindale, scrambled Friday to explain amorous e-mails he�d sent in 2010 to Shi Rong, a Toronto correspondent with Xinhua News Agency.

Mr. Dechert is parliamentary secretary to Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird.

Xinhua is the official press service for the People�s Republic of China and Western counterintelligence organizations have likened it to an intelligence agency.

Wow, and people said The Liberal Party was too friendly with China.

[Brenda]

Slow news day?

[Gunnair]

Brenda Brenda:

Slow news day?

Very slow but watch the partisan hacks go crazy.

[Curtman]

Brenda Brenda:

Slow news day?

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Mr. Dechert is parliamentary secretary to Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird.
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“You are so beautiful. I really like the picture of you by the water with your cheeks puffed. That look is so cute, I love it when you do that. Now, I miss you even more.”
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“Dearest Rong,” the note began. “How is your day? Did your interviews at Royal Bank go well? Did you get enough information for your articles?”
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Canadian Security Intelligence Service head Richard Fadden suggested during a TV interview in June, 2010, that two provincial cabinet ministers and a number of other government officials and employees were under the control of foreign countries as part of espionage schemes.

You don't think its newsworthy?

[Macguyver]

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Xinhua is the official press service for the People’s Republic of China and Western counterintelligence organizations have likened it to an intelligence agency.

Slow News?? Is this guy retarded??

Go talk to CSIS you'll learn the first thing they teach you is if you’re a diplomat or politician or a business man is that (even if you’re an ugly stupid fuck like Dechert) young foreign women will somehow be mysteriously attracted to you.

The CSIS guys are probably shitting their pants. This is elementary. What the fuck was he thinking??

This guy risks the security of our country for a little poon...god that makes me so frustrated. I guarantee he was briefed by CSIS and told to be aware of these intelligence risks. All of a sudden he’s a rock star and he thinks it is because he’s George Clooney that all these young women want to be his friend. How stupid can you be?

[Unsound]

This is the second fairly major security breach by this government. Not a pattern I like to see.

[Gunnair]

Macguyver Macguyver:

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Xinhua is the official press service for the People’s Republic of China and Western counterintelligence organizations have likened it to an intelligence agency.

Slow News?? Is this guy retarded??

Go talk to CSIS you'll learn the first thing they teach you is if you’re a diplomat or politician or a business man is that (even if you’re an ugly stupid fuck like Dechert) young foreign women will somehow be mysteriously attracted to you.

The CSIS guys are probably shitting their pants. This is elementary. What the fuck was he thinking??

This guy risks the security of our country for a little poon...god that makes me so frustrated. I guarantee he was briefed by CSIS and told to be aware of these intelligence risks. All of a sudden he’s a rock star and he thinks it is because he’s George Clooney that all these young women want to be his friend. How stupid can you be?

Guy made a dumb move and he's been chastized for it. Obviously it'll make good fodder for the haters though.

Don't be a hater.

[Gunnair]

Unsound Unsound:

This is the second fairly major security breach by this government. Not a pattern I like to see.

Swapped some syrupy emails with a Chinese reporter.

Dumb yes.

Massive security breach? Please explain.

[Unsound]

You disagree? I think it's fairly obvious that I'm not a hater, but Bernier leaving documents at his gf's house and now a foreign affairs parliamentry secretary having a relationship with a woman who is more than likely somehow affiliated with Chinese intelligence... at the very least it shows that these people simply don't take security seriously. This is pretty basic stuff.

[raydan]

If they can prove that sensitive information was given or that Shi Rong is a spy, let's hear it.
if not, nothing here... except maybe for the cheating part.

[Macguyver]

Gunnair Gunnair:

Guy made a dumb move and he's been chastized for it. Obviously it'll make good fodder for the haters though.

Don't be a hater.

That makes no sense. We spend billions securing our country. This guy has a wife and access to probably every classified document in Canada.

What probably happened was that they threatened to turn over the emails that he sent to that reporter if he did not give them the information they wanted. Thank god he chose to be publically humiliated. Lots of people would allow themselves to be blackmailed.

That is how espionage works. Don't be so naive to think that that little Asian woman was all buddy buddy with that old and ugly politician because she has a crush on him.

She works for an intelligence gathering entity. This is classic spy vs spy. There is no doubt in my mind that, although it appears that it was her husband who released the information, spamming 240 media, academic and political and business contacts in Canada is not the work of an angry spouse.

Wake up, this is a top politician in our government falling for the oldest trick in the book with a woman who works for a know intelligence gathering agency. Blackmail is the #1 intelligence gathering tool.

[raydan]

Macguyver Macguyver:

That makes no sense. We spend billions securing our country. This guy has a wife and access to probably every classified document in Canada.

What probably happened was that they threatened to turn over the emails that he sent to that reporter if he did not give them the information they wanted. Thank god he chose to be publically humiliated. Lots of people would allow themselves to be blackmailed.

That is how espionage works. Don't be so naive to think that that little Asian woman was all buddy buddy with that old and ugly politician because she has a crush on him.

She works for an intelligence gathering entity. This is classic spy vs spy. There is no doubt in my mind that, although it appears that it was her husband who released the information, spamming 240 media, academic and political and business contacts in Canada is not the work of an angry spouse.

Wake up, this is a top politician in our government falling for the oldest trick in the book with a woman who works for a know intelligence gathering agency. Blackmail is the #1 intelligence gathering tool.

We're all going to die!!!!



Sorry, I thought I was in an AGW thread.

[Gunnair]

Unsound Unsound:

You disagree? I think it's fairly obvious that I'm not a hater, but Bernier leaving documents at his gf's house and now a foreign affairs parliamentry secretary having a relationship with a woman who is more than likely somehow affiliated with Chinese intelligence... at the very least it shows that these people simply don't take security seriously. This is pretty basic stuff.

Bernier's stupid stunt is a bit different than a flirtatious series of emails. You should figure that out.

Bernier should have been fired, drawn and quartered for his idiocy - leaving secret documents unsecured is a beating offense. Full stop.

So far, this guy has been caught doing nothing more than sending emails to a Chinese reporter and the hacks are quickly having a string of massively dramatic moments to blow it out of proportion. You are also making some significants leaps by suggesting this woman is a likely Chinese spy.

Tell ya what - let's let the investigators look at it. If she is indeed a Chinese spy and she has indeed been wangling info out of the guy with the licking of lips and sashaying of bum - hang him!

Till then, let's take the report for what it is so far, tut-tut the guy for being a dummy, and let's not lose our shit prematurely.

[Gunnair]

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Gunnair Gunnair:

Guy made a dumb move and he's been chastized for it. Obviously it'll make good fodder for the haters though.

Don't be a hater.

That makes no sense. We spend billions securing our country. This guy has a wife and access to probably every classified document in Canada.

What probably happened was that they threatened to turn over the emails that he sent to that reporter if he did not give them the information they wanted. Thank god he chose to be publically humiliated. Lots of people would allow themselves to be blackmailed.

That is how espionage works. Don't be so naive to think that that little Asian woman was all buddy buddy with that old and ugly politician because she has a crush on him.

She works for an intelligence gathering entity. This is classic spy vs spy. There is no doubt in my mind that, although it appears that it was her husband who released the information, spamming 240 media, academic and political and business contacts in Canada is not the work of an angry spouse.

Wake up, this is a top politician in our government falling for the oldest trick in the book with a woman who works for a know intelligence gathering agency. Blackmail is the #1 intelligence gathering tool.