Last week, a bombshell report by Axios noted that Chinese spies have been targeting and, in many cases infiltrating, the campaigns and elected offices of several Democratic figures who appeared to have been up-and-comers within the party.
One of those figures was original ‘Russian collusion’ truther Rep. Eric Swalwell. The California Democrat was targeted by a Chinese national posing as an Americanized transplant named Fang Fang, a.k.a. Christine Fang. There are indications that she and Swalwell even had a romantic relationship.
Not only did she help with his 2014 campaign, Fang also managed to place a staffer in Swalwell’s office. Not good, considering that Swalwell is a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
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The FBI eventually ID’ed Fang Fang as a Chinese spy; she flew the coup and headed back to the mainland, while agents gave Swalwell a defensive briefing. Case closed, right?
Not so fast, as the Washington Examiner notes:
A group of House Republicans, led by some of the most high-profile members of the caucus, called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to remove Rep. Eric Swalwell from the House Intelligence Committee following revelations that he was targeted by a suspected Chinese spy.
Fang Fang, also known as Christine Fang, a Chinese national believed to be working with China’s Ministry of State Security, conducted an extensive political influence operation between 2011 and 2015 on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party in the Bay Area and elsewhere, according to a report by Axios that cited U.S. intelligence officials. Swalwell’s association with Fang, which he has refused to describe in detail, reportedly lasted from 2011 to 2015. Swalwell was elected to the House in 2012.
Fang is suspected of targeting other politicians in California and elsewhere in the country, including romantic relationships with at least two Midwestern mayors who have not been publicly identified. Fang suddenly left the United States in the summer of 2015. She reportedly acted as a financial bundler for Swalwell and helped place at least one intern in his congressional office.
“We write to you today out of concern with Congressman Eric Swalwell’s reported, close contacts with a Chinese Communist Party spy recently reported by Axios. Because of Rep. Swalwell’s position on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, his close interactions with Chinese intelligence services, however unintentional they may be, are an unacceptable national security risk,” the GOP members told Pelosi in a letter obtained by the Washington Examiner.
“HPSCI handles some of the most sensitive information our government possesses — information critical to our national defense. As such, we urge you to immediately remove Rep. Swalwell from his position on the House Intelligence Committee,” the Republicans added.
Swalwell became a member of the Intelligence Committee in 2015.
“Rep. Swalwell withheld information for five years from the House Intelligence Committee about an ongoing Chinese espionage operation targeted at him and his own colleagues,” the House Republicans added.
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“Obviously, Rep. Swalwell’s interactions with a Chinese spy were more dangerous and unusual than AG Session’s meetings with a Russian diplomat. But to make matters worse, Rep. Swalwell kept this information to himself while repeatedly using his position on HPSCI to peddle damaging and baseless conspiracies about President Donald Trump’s unproven ties to Russia for years and still refuses to comment fully on the extent and nature of his relationship with the Chinese Communist Party spy exposed in Axios’ bombshell report.”
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