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Government Corruption

Ex-FBI agent who leaked to Chinese company had his hands in a wide range of notable investigations

2025-09-10

[JustTheNews] The since-convicted FBI counterintelligence leader, who leaked information about a criminal investigation into a Chinese company linked to Hunter Biden’s business efforts, had previously played what he claimed in his defense to have had supervisory roles in a wide range of investigations.

Charles McGonigal, now known to have leaked sensitive information to China-linked targets of an FBI investigation he was helping oversee, played a role in a host of other FBI investigations, including a Chinese mole hunt, a defensive briefing given to Crooked Hillary Clinton
...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do...
’s 2016 presidential campaign, the baseless Trump-Russia collusion investigation, a failed prosecution of Huawei executives, Chelsea Manning

...formerly Bradley Manning before he decided to become a girl. He, or she or whatever it was, was a misfit Army intel analyst who decided to leak all the secrets he could lay hands on. Sentenced to 35 years in Leavenworth, he was sprung on an Obamapardon in 2017....
's leaks to WikiLeaks, the earth-shattering kaboom of TWA Flight 800, al-Qaeda terrorist attacks, and more.

McGonigal, who served as the section chief of the Cyber-Counterintelligence Coordination Section at FBI Headquarters for much of 2016, was promoted by since-fired FBI Director James The spine of the FBI is the rule of law Comey
James <q>The spine of the FBI is the rule of law</q> Comey

James <q>The spine of the FBI is the rule of law</q> Comey

The disgraced, except in his own mind, former head of the FBI...
to be the special agent in charge of the FBI’s counterintelligence division at its New York field office in October 2016.

McGonigal was sentenced in December 2023 for money laundering related to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and in February 2024 for receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars from an Albanian government official. The DOJ described Deripaska as "a Russian tycoon who acts as Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
’s agent."

Seth DuCharme, a former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York during the first Trump administration who served as a defense lawyer for McGonigal, touted McGonigal’s lengthy résumé in sentencing memos in 2023 and 2024. "To weigh the seriousness of this offense against Mr. McGonigal’s personal background, including his extensive work as a national security professional, the Court must carefully consider the totality of his circumstances," DuCharme argued. He also said, "Mr. McGonigal’s service to the United States has been truly extraordinary, and often at grave personal risk."

Neither sentencing memo made any mention of McGonigal’s role in the hunt for a mole who was helping the Chinese nor of his connections to the flawed Crossfire Hurricane investigation. Ironically, the Crossfire Hurricane hoax painted Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
as a Russian asset.

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