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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do find this story fascinating and terrifying.  How do they choose who to target?  They skip the top 4 at the CIA but hit number 5?  And one random White House staffer, on two different continents, but not Bolton, with whom she traveled?  And an American diplomat's family in both China and -- horrifyingly -- in PA [i]while getting treatment[/i]?!  Holy f*ck.[/quote]

I had the exact same reactions. This is pure speculation, but maybe they could only hit targets based on opportunity where all the cards lined up - they had detailed location info, the US person didn’t have security, the location was amenable to targeting, or maybe they targeted specific people who knew or were close to finding out specific info that they did not want known or to become public (eg the Fiona Hill Suggestion - no basis for this and I haven’t checked the timeline via a vis the Ukraine whistleblower call and impeachment testimony, but one could imagine generally that with the scope of misdeeds engaged in by this administration with foreign powers, there were certain sensitive secrets that the perpetrators wanted to protect). They’re not just targeting all identifiable personnel in the DC area (I hope), though they did blanket target the embassies in Cuba and China (and Russia post-Cold War through who knows). The targeting of the two people on US soil after they were already hit abroad makes it seem like they were specific targets for knowledge-based reasons.

See also this story of a Commerce staffer living in China (not the same as the diplomat story above whose family was targeted in PA after the diplomat was hit in China), whose apartment was microwaved (one of the links in the GQ article). Crazy. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/evacuated-after-health-attacks-cuba-china-diplomats-face-new-ordeals-n920241

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