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Swalwell joining homeland security committee despite Chinese spy scandal

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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) is joining the House Committee on Homeland Security just one month after Axios revealed the former presidential candidate had been targeted by a Chinese spy.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) tapped Swalwell to rejoin the committee, where he is prepared to fight the “scourge of white nationalist extremism,” according to a Twitter post. Swalwell was in hot water in the past weeks for his relationship with Fang Fang (also known as Christine Fang)—the Chinese spy had attended several campaign events and aided in fundraising efforts for the Congressman’s 2014 re-election. Swalwell will not say if he had sex with Fang, but his family members are still connected with her on Facebook, as reported by the New York Post.

“My committee memberships—along with my experience as a prosecutor and as the son and brother of law enforcement officers—will give me a unique opportunity to delve into one of America’s most serious national security threats,” Swalwell wrote in a Twitter post—referring to white supremacy.

Fang had slept with multiple elected officials in California, in an alleged effort to infiltrate the American political system. Fang is directly responsible for at least one intern placement in Swalwell’s office.

The Homeland Security committee oversees legislation on United States security as well as the US Department of Homeland Security.

Pelosi has stood by the congressman through the controversy.

“In the election, the American people elected a Democratic House Majority that not only will ensure that our nation recovers from this historic pandemic and economic crisis, but will Build Back Better,” Pelosi said in a statement. 

Swalwell still sits on the House Intelligence Committee, as well.

As Pelosi begins yet another term as speaker of the house, she is making it clear that relationships and possible incriminating contact with China and Chinese spies is not a breaking point for important positions in her congress.

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Report: Beijing’s military hacked U.S. nuclear firm before Hunter Biden aided Chinese bid to acquire it

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A bombshell report by Just the News explains that “U.S. officials were acutely aware that Beijing was trying to obtain America’s premiere nuclear reactor technology, including through illicit hacking, months before Hunter Biden and his business partners sought to arrange a quiet sale of an iconic U.S. reactor company to a Chinese firm, according to court records and national security experts.”

Hunter Biden attempted to assist CEFC China Energy to acquire Westinghouse, one of America’s most famous electricity and appliance brands, as well as its state-the-art AP1000 nuclear reactor.

Hunter began his work with the Chinese company in early 2016 – while Joe Biden was the sitting Vice President – memos show. According to a copy of the indictment, just 20 months earlier, his father’s Justice Department charged five members of a Chinese military hacking unit for breaching the company’s computer systems in search of intellectual property and internal strategy communications.

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In May 2014, the five operatives of the People’s Liberation Army’s Unit 61398 were charged with hacking into the systems of six U.S.-based companies across different industrial sectors, including Westinghouse Electric Co., SolarWorld, United States Steel Corp., and a union. The attorney general at the time, Eric Holder, called the breach a classic case of “economic espionage.”

One operative gained access to Westinghouse’s computers in 2010 and “stole proprietary and confidential technical and design specifications related to pipes, pipe supports, and pipe routing” pertaining to the company’s advanced AP1000 nuclear reactor design, according to an indictment filed by the Department of Justice.

“Among other things, such specifications would enable a competitor to build a plant similar to the AP1000 without incurring significant research and development costs associated with designing similar pipes, pipe supports, and pipe routing systems,” the indictment reads.

Just the News notes that while there is no evidence at the moment that Hunter Biden was aware of or involved in the hacking efforts by the Chinese, documents previously released by Congress in the Biden impeachment inquiry show Hunter Biden wrote in one text message in 2017 that he believed one of the CEFC officials he worked with, Patrick Ho, was the “f—ing spy chief” of China.

Ho was later indicted in the U.S. and charged with corruption. Joe Biden’s brother James told the FBI he believed CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming had a relationship with China’s communist president.

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