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One Thousand Days In A Chinese Prison: Michael Kovrig’s Story
@nitingokhale @Resham_sng @SuryaGangadha13 @amitabhprevi @s_jkr #China #MichaelKovrig #Canada #Huawei #US #Kovrig #CanadaChina #Wanzhou
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“Mr. #Kovrig’s letter says he and Mr. Ortis were professional acquaintances while Mr. Kovrig was in Ottawa, working for the Department of Global Affairs… ‘I have no information related to those charges and can take no position on the question of their validity’…”🤔
Michael Kovrig lends support to ex-RCMP intelligence official found guilty of sharing secrets https://t.co/KlvF1vEs9V
“Of particular concern to the gov’t is a potential lawsuit from #Spavor that has put a spotlight on Canada’s Global Security Reporting Program… #Kovrig, during his time as a Canadian diplomat, worked for… a special unit within the intelligence branch of @GAC_Corporate…”🤔
Global Affairs Canada says that suggesting either Michael #Kovrig or Michael #Spavor was involved in “#espionage” will only serve Beijing’s false allegations ... https://t.co/mHM1rQrNTM
The compelling circumstantial evidence implicating ex-#CrisisGroup head #RobMalley in illicit hostage trading — both #Kovrig and #Tsurkov were Int’l Crisis Group consultants — raises questions about other cases. including that of #BobLevinson.
#BarackObama announced his campaign on 10 February 2007. #Levinson was abducted on 8 March 2007. A week later, #Malley published this op-ed in #France’s @LeMondeFR, where he argued, in French, that #Europe should negotiate with #Hamas terrorists.
• Malley, Robert. “Palestine, l'Europe face à ses responsabilités.” Le Monde, 14 March 2007. https://t.co/wptjHD234U
He then began advising the #Obama campaign, but on 9 May 2008, the campaign severed ties with him after the Times reported that Malley had been in secret discussions with #Hamas, listed by the U.S. @StateDept as a terrorist organization… doing exactly what he argued “The Quartet” should do in his aforementioned op-ed a year earlier, right after Levinson was abducted off of #Kish Island by Iranian agents.
(“The Quartet” is a foursome of nations and international and supranational entities involved in mediating the Israeli–Palestinian peace process which comprises the United Nations, the United States, the European Union, and #Russia.)
• Baldwin, Tom. “Barack Obama sacks adviser over talks with Hamas.” The Times. 10 May 2008. https://t.co/7kMem093YS
According to @theJPC, “After the international community isolated the newly elected Hamas government in 2006, its leadership gravitated toward Iran for support. Hamas Prime Minster Ismail Haniyeh in December 2006 admitted that, “Iran constituted ‘strategic depth’ for the Palestinians.” It has since been speculated (primarily by officials in the rival Palestinian Authority) that Iran helped plan the Hamas coup in June 2007 and its violent takeover of Gaza [from Fatah].”
Bob Levinson, an American Jew, can be presumed to have been an attractive hostage not merely for Iran, but for those eager to play negotiator with the illegitimate regime in #Tehran… including people like Rob Malley, whose father, Selim Ménache (AKA Sélim Malek, Simon Malley) was an Egyptian-Algerian turned French-American Jew with Palestinian sympathies.
It’s crucial to understand how Iranian intelligence — #VAJA/#VEVAK — might’ve learned that Bob Levinson was visiting Kish Island and that he was anything more than an standard retiree tourist. There must have been a leak or #OPSEC failure for the Iranians to know that abducting him would give them more leverage than abducting any other random retiree tourist.
While there’s much about the @FBI’s Levinson case which remains shrouded in mystery, and while it isn’t yet clear how Malley may have had insight into Levinson’s work (as he would’ve with Michael #Kovrig and Elizabeth #Tsurkov), there *is* someone who would’ve had that insight.
From 2002 until 2008, Malley’s roommate at #Paris’ École Jeannine Manuel — Antony #Blinken — served as Democratic Staff Director for the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Foreign Relations. In that role, Blinken would’ve interfaced regularly with both the FBI and @CIA (now headed by Francophone Bill Burns).
In 2008, Blinken left to work for #Biden’s campaign. With Malley advising #Obama, Blinken advising Biden, and their former boss, Sandy Berger (who advised Francophone #JohnKerry in 2004 before being forced to resign over an egregious theft of classified documents) advising #Clinton, the trio were in a perfect position to influence the course of foreign relations… regardless of which Democrat was selected to become the 2008 Presidential nominee.
Berger was also “a close advisor to the late ambassador to #France, Pamela Harriman, and helped her to enter the foreign policy community,” according to a 1997 @CNN profile of him. (Harriman had studied at the the #Sorbonne in her youth.)
• CNN. “Samuel R. ‘Sandy’ Berger.” https://t.co/NUqWtAAPgD
More to come…
@UANI @MiddleEastInst @JINSADC @VandenbergCo @PolarisNATSEC @MEMRIReports
Folks should take a closer look at the case of one-time #Iran hostage Jason #Rezaian, of #WaPo. Jason was charged with #espionage, held hostage for 544 days, released the same day #RobMalley’s #JCPOA #IranDeal went into effect, and then awarded $180M for his ordeal. #FreeEvan
The arrests of #MengWanzhou, Michaels #Spavor and
#Kovrig marked a turning point in the growing power competition between the #US and #China
https://t.co/HMEWXBrnLL
@Greyseeker Don’t really care. #Bejing2022 is happening in a police state. I’m worried for our athletes safety and hoping they don’t wind up like the Michaels - #Kovrig and #Spavor. There’s also a national security concern with athletes being compromised and blackmailed by #China.
On the heels of the hostage taking situation involving the Two Michaels and 🇨🇳.. the #PengShuai affair punctuates the need for Canada to withdraw from the Beijing games and to work with international allies to pressure the IOC to relocate the @Olympics. #Spavor #Kovrig #cdnpoli
"The IOC appears to be willing to shrug its shoulders and move on." @caitlin_thomps says international pressure is needed to ensure Peng Shuai’s safety, but the International Olympic Committee is choosing to protect the Beijing games: https://t.co/vqvb8RBqYQ
Why is this not enough to deter anyone - from diplomats like #Kovrig, business person like #Spavor or drug traffickers like #Schellenberg - from travelling to China? “Would be killing out of spite': China silent about Canadian on death row” https://t.co/ZxTYmlq7ej
My op-Ed in Nikkei Asia on #mengwanzhou Saga #hostagediplomacy #kovrig & #spavor release #china #politicsandlaw #middle powers
https://t.co/yUIf4L0lfS @thecic @liam_taipei @LaurenBeldi @calgaryherald @globeandmail @Diplomat_APAC @iAffairsCanada @CanadaWestFdn @ConsortiumIndo
My op-Ed in Nikkei Asia on #mengwanzhou Saga #hostagediplomacy #kovrig & #spavor release #china #politicsandlaw #middle powers
https://t.co/yUIf4L0lfS @CAGlobalAffairs @MLInstitute @AsiaPacificFdn @thecic @Journal_INDOPAC @EASCentre @APPolicyHubGAC @OxfordPolRev @APPSPolicyForum
I was suspended for 7 days for calling out this POS who’s simping for the CCP, and calling #kovrig & #spavor spies. I’d do it again. #traitor #wumao #BoycottCCP
Powerful photo of Michael Kovrig arriving home. 📸 by @AdamScotti
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