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Italiano美议员要求国土安全部调查利用海湖庄园接近总统的相关问题
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美国参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦和众议院国家安全小组委员会主席斯蒂芬·林奇众议员致信国土安全部代理检察长约翰?凯利，要求调查白宫是否干预或否决特勤局对于哪些人可以在海湖庄园接近总统的建议。
3月30日，一名中国女子擅闯海湖庄园被特勤人员逮捕，这名女子称她受到邀请从上海前来佛州棕榈滩参加一个“联合国友好协会”（United Nations Friendship）的活动，并且可以接近特朗普总统的家人。在此之前，有报道称海湖庄园的会员、中国移民杨莅创建并运营了一家公司，向中国企业高管出售与特朗普总统及其家人在海湖庄园会面的机会。这些事件引发美国多位议员担心其他国家可能将海湖庄园作为一个渠道，来影响美国的政策或从总统及其盟友那里获取重要的国家安全信息。
林奇众议员和沃伦参议员在信中引用政府问责办公室的一份报告，报告显示主要负责保护总统人身安全的机构是特勤局，但最终决定是否允许一个人接近总统的机构是白宫的总统行政办公室。报告没有指出特勤局的角色和活动存在缺陷，但报告说，总统行政办公室没有配合政府问责局的调查。
两位议员在信中写到：“白宫拒绝配合调查，再加上本周早些时候的逮捕事件，还有另外那些对于在海湖庄园很容易接近总统和他的家人的指称，这些都意味着至少有一个关键问题需要答案，那就是，白宫是否对于哪些人被允许在海湖庄园及别处接近总统作出适当的审查并给出正确的建议？”
议员们要求检察长凯利调查此事，并特别要求调查白宫是否否决过任何特勤局关于哪些人被允许在海湖庄园或其他地方会见总统的建议。
周三，三名民主党参议员要求FBI局长克里斯托弗?雷调查外国间谍是否能利用海湖庄园的弱点窃取机密信息。
特朗普总统星期三对记者说，一名中国女子以说谎手段进入他的私人俱乐部只是一个偶发事件，他“一点也不担心”。他说：“我有非常好的掌控。”
中国外交部发言人耿爽星期四对记者说，中国驻休斯敦总领馆已得知中国女子在海湖庄园被特勤人员逮捕一事，并已与相关人员取得联系，正在向她提供领事协助。
Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Congressman Stephen F. Lynch (D-Mass.), Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, sent a letter to John V. Kelly, Acting Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security, requesting an investigation into whether the White House is interfering with or overruling Secret Service recommendations about which guests at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club should have access to the President. The letter follows recent reports suggesting the President’s Florida resort may be a channel through which foreign adversaries are seeking to influence federal policy or obtain important national security information from the President and his allies.
This week, The Washington Post reported that Secret Service agents arrested a woman who deceived her way into the Mar-a-Lago club with two Chinese passports, a laptop, and a thumb drive containing malicious software. The woman reportedly claimed that she was instructed by a Chinese friend to travel from Shanghai to Florida specifically to “make contact with a member of Trump’s family.” This report follows last month’s news that Li “Cindy” Yang, a frequent visitor to the resort and a member of the President’s Mar-a-Lago club, “created and operated a business that sold Chinese business executives access to President Donald Trump and his family at Mar-a-Lago.”
In their letter, Senator Warren and Congressman Lynch cited a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report—requested by Senator Warren in February 2017 and published in February 2019—which revealed that while the Secret Service is primarily responsible for establishing the physical security of the President, it is the White House’s Executive Office of the President (EOP) that “ultimately determines whether or not an individual should be granted access to the President.” The GAO report identified no shortcomings in the role and activities of the Secret Service, but reported that the EOP did not cooperate with the GAO investigation.
In their letter, the lawmakers wrote, “This refusal of the White House to cooperate with this investigation, combined with the arrest earlier this week and other allegations of easy access to the President and his family at Mar-a-Lago, mean that at least one key question remains open: is the White House appropriately reviewing and making the correct recommendations regarding which individuals are granted access to the President, at Mar-a-Lago and elsewhere?”
The lawmakers requested that Inspector General Kelly investigate this matter and specifically asked that the investigation assess whether the White House has overruled any recommendations by the Secret Service about which individuals should be granted access to the President at Mar-a-Lago or elsewhere.
Warren calls for investigation of White House role in admitting guests at Mar-a-Lago
4/4 Washington Post
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is calling for an investigation of whether the White House is overruling Secret Service recommendations about which guests at President Trump’s Florida estate should have access to him during his frequent weekend stays.
The request to the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security follows the arrest last weekend of a Chinese woman after she bypassed layers of security and gained access to the reception area of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club and was found carrying two passports and a thumb drive containing malicious software, according to court documents.
In a letter, Warren, along with Rep. Stephen F. Lynch (D-Mass.), cited a Government Accountability Office report published last month that said the White House ultimately determines who sees the president after vetting by the Secret Service. The report said the White House did not respond to a request for comment on the GAO’s findings.
“This refusal of the White House to cooperate with this investigation, combined with the arrest earlier this week and other allegations of easy access to the President and his family at Mar-a-Lago, mean that at least one key question remains open: is the White House appropriately reviewing and making the correct recommendations regarding which individuals are granted access to the President, at Mar-a-Lago and elsewhere?” Warren, a 2020 presidential contender, and Lynch, who chairs a House panel on national security, said in the letter.
The investigation request comes amid growing scrutiny of security and possible espionage efforts aimed at Mar-a-Lago, which Trump uses both as a presidential retreat and a moneymaking resort.
Hundreds of members, overnight guests and partygoing strangers stream into the president’s “Winter White House” every weekend, requiring the Secret Service to screen them against lists of approved visitors.
When a woman — identified as Yujing Zhang, a Chinese national — approached the club last week, security officials found that she was not on the approved list but let her in anyway after a Mar-a-Lago staff members suggested that she might be the relative of a club member. Secret Service agents later detained the woman in the club’s main building.
On Wednesday, Trump said that he had a brief meeting about the incident but that he was not concerned about potential espionage efforts aimed at Mar-a-Lago. He praised the Secret Service, as well as a receptionist who first noticed that something was amiss with Zhang.
“We have very good control,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “The person at the front desk did a very good job, to be honest with you.”
On Wednesday, three other leading Senate Democrats asked FBI Director Christopher A. Wray to investigate whether foreign spies could exploit weaknesses at Mar-a-Lago to steal classified information.
Zhang’s arrest “raises very serious questions regarding security vulnerabilities at Mar-a-Lago, which foreign intelligence services have reportedly targeted,” wrote Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.); Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee; and Sen. Mark R. Warner (Va.), vice chairman of the Intelligence Committee.
China providing services to woman arrested at Mar-a-Lago
Associated Press
Thursday, April 04, 2019
BEIJING – China says it has been informed of the arrest of a Chinese woman at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club over the weekend and is providing her with consular services.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told reporters Thursday that the Chinese Consulate General in Houston had been notifiied of the March 30 arrest, had gotten in touch with the person involved and was providing her with consular assistance. Geng gave no details.
Yujing Zhang is being held on charges of lying to agents and illegal entering.
Court documents allege 32-year-old Zhang told a Secret Service agent Saturday she was a Mar-a-Lago member there to use the pool.
Agents were later summoned and they say Zhang began arguing during an interview. They say a thumb drive in her possession contained malware.
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特朗普称不担心中国可能针对海湖庄园进行间谍活动
2019年4月4日 10:26
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特朗普总统表示，他对中国可能在海湖庄园的间谍活动不担心，一切尽在掌控之中。此前一名中国女子擅闯海湖庄园，以及一位华裔女商人被指向中国商人兜售她与美国政府高层的联系，引发一些媒体和国会议员对中国在美情报活动的担忧。
特朗普星期三在白宫与高级军方官员会晤时表示，他看到了相关报道，并且听取了简报。他说：“我现在一点也不担心。我有非常好的掌控。”
他说，中国女子以说谎手段进入他的私人俱乐部只是一个偶发事件。他同时称赞俱乐部发现问题的员工和特勤局尽职尽责。
32岁的中国女子张玉静（Yujing Zhang，音译）星期六进入海湖庄园后被逮捕。根据美国联邦政府星期一向法庭递交的刑事诉状，她被控向联邦探员撒谎以及擅自进入禁区。
参议院少数党领袖舒默、参议员马克·沃纳和黛安·费恩斯坦致信联邦调查局（FBI）局长克里斯托弗·雷，要求FBI “评估海湖庄园存在的风险，这种风险来自于在一个公众和外国人可以进出的地方设置处理机密信息的区域。”
这三位民主党领袖说，张玉静在特朗普总统周末下榻期间得以轻松进入海湖庄园，暴露出这座宅物业严重的安全问题，而海湖庄园据称是外国情报机构针对的目标。
事件发生时，特朗普总统在附近打高尔夫球，不在海湖庄园。媒体报道说，特朗普总统没有看到这名女子。
美国联邦政府提交的诉状说，张玉静在进入海湖庄园时的安检处对特勤局特工说她是俱乐部会员，想去用里面的游泳池，但是进入庄园被另一名特勤局特工叫住问话后又改口说，有个叫“查尔斯”的中国朋友通过微信请她从上海前来佛州棕榈滩参加一个“联合国友好协会”（United Nations Friendship）的活动，并且可以接近特朗普总统的家人，谈论美中经济关系。
张玉静说的活动与一个名为“联合国华人友好协会”（United Nations Chinese Friendship Association）的组织的名字类似，这个协会的秘书长叫查尔斯·李（Charles Lee）。
“联合国华人友好协会”在百度词条（现已删除）说，协会是“经联合国经社理事会民间社会组织注册，美国特拉华州政府注册，美国纽约市，纽约州政府公证，中国政府驻美国大使馆纽约总领事馆认证的，由全球华人倡导发起的非营利性，非政府性组织。”词条上列出的所谓高级顾问指导团成员包括潘基文、前美国总统克林顿和微软创始人比尔·盖茨等政商名人，名誉主席有美国国会议员孟昭文和赵美心、香港首富李嘉诚等10余人。
这个组织在其网站（现已无法访问）上说，查尔斯是“走进联合国创办华人协会的第一人”，并登出许多查尔斯与中外政要名人的合影。这些名人包括联合国秘书长古特雷斯、前秘书长潘基文、美国总统特朗普，以及中国高级官员。有些图片上的文字还称查尔斯为“查尔斯王子”。
但是，“联合国华人友好协会”和联合国似乎没有联系。
此前有中国媒体报道说，一些冠以“联合国”的组织其实是“山寨联合国”，包括这个“联合国华人友好协会”，只要交钱就可以入会，参加一些“高端活动”。报道指，入会汇款的收款人抬头为“北京和平友好企业管理有限责任公司”，是一家在北京注册的私营公司。
网络资料显示，查尔斯2018年曾经推销过一个所谓赴美“商旅民间外交活动”，其中一天的行程安排是参加特朗普姐姐的欢迎晚宴，与特朗普姐姐及其他杰出人物交流合影。
与查尔斯有关联的微信号最近还推出与美国前总统克林顿夫妇本月在纽约的慈善见面会，上面也写到可以与克林顿夫妇和其他政商名人交流合影。此外，这个微信号还推销各种中外各地的商旅和名人交流活动。
《迈阿密先驱报》说，查尔斯·李是前些天成为新闻人物的佛罗里达州女商人杨莅（Cindy Yang）的商业伙伴。这位来自中国东北的移民被指刻意接近特朗普总统和家人以及其他共和党高层人物，包括参加在特朗普总统的海湖庄园举行的活动，还向中国商人兜售她与美国上层的联系。
《迈阿密先驱报》说，张玉静3月30日前往参加的活动是杨莅推介的一个名为Safari Night的活动，查尔斯·李也在微信上推销了这场活动，并且在广告上贴出他与杨莅的合影。杨莅还推介过在3月30日举行的另一场在海湖庄园举行的名为“顶级富豪私人俱乐部”的活动。这两场活动后来都被取消了。
杨莅否认认识查尔斯·李和擅闯海湖庄园的中国女子。杨莅的律师伊万·特克（Evan W. Turk）在一份声明中说：“我们的客户声称，她不认识周末在海湖庄园被逮捕的那名女子。一些文章中提到的李博士与我们的客户照过两次合影。除此之外，她表示，她与他没有联系。”
杨莅此前在社交媒体上贴出与特朗普总统的合影，让她卷入了政治漩涡。一些指称说，她向中国商人兜售接触美国政要的渠道，还有可能违反美国的竞选资金法，参加了与中国政府有密切关系的组织“和平统一促进会”和“旅美科协”，可能是中国间谍。
特朗普总统星期三在白宫回答记者有关杨莅是否是他朋友时回答说，他不认识杨莅，对她丝毫不了解。至于为什么与杨莅在一张照片里出现，特朗普总统说，他经常与其他人合影，有时候一天会有数百次，但完全不认识杨莅这个人。
有关杨莅的媒体报道此前也引起国会民主党领袖的关注，他们要求FBI对杨莅展开刑事和反间谍调查。参加了与中国政府有密切关系的组织“和平统一促进会”和“旅美科协”，可能是中国间谍。
杨莅对媒体说，她没有任何违法行为。她对NBC新闻说：“我是共和党人。我是华人。所以民主党人才要查我。
