Posted on 10/11/2021 2:59:38 PM PDT by Enlightened1
John Ratcliffe, former director of national intelligence under then-President Donald Trump, said on Sunday that the Biden administration’s efforts to purchase Chinese-made drones for federal law enforcement agencies make no sense because it’s a risk to U.S. national security.
In an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, Ratcliffe, also a former U.S. lawmaker from Texas, said the Trump administration tagged the Chinese company in question after intelligence officials discerned with “moderate confidence” the firm was spying on critical U.S. infrastructure electronically and sending the collected data to the Communist leadership in Beijing.
“Yeah, those reports are accurate as reflected, the Biden administration, through the FBI and Secret Service purchased from DJI, which is a company that the Trump administration actually flagged in 2017, Department of Homeland Security said that that specific company was using its drones for the purpose of providing information on U.S. critical infrastructure to the Chinese Communist Party,” Ratcliffe said in response to Bartiromo’s inquiry over whether he could say whether the effort to buy Chinese-made drones were taking place.
“And that was moderate confidence that that was taking place, which is why our administration took all of those out and basically advanced a policy where we wouldn’t use that Chinese technology, you outline the kind of concerns that Huawei and companies that are controlled by the Chinese Communist Party pose to our national security,” he continued.
“So, like so much that Biden administration has done on national security lately, this makes very little sense. It’s harmful to our national security. And also, Chinese drone technology is not as good as U.S. drone technology. So it’s hard to make sense out of what’s doing this, other than it is consistent with the Biden administration taking a softer approach, trying to promote a false narrative that somehow China is a competitor and not an adversary. And you would think that the lessons learned from COVID would teach everyone that, you know, China’s not to be trusted, and that moves like this are harmful to our national security posture,” Ratcliffe noted further.
Bartiromo then shifted gears somewhat, citing a report that an illegal alien from China has been charged with setting fire to a historic church in Alabama and how the Trump administration focused on “confronting the China threat.”
https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1447360847626395648
“There’s a list of indictments that we have here, and this is only a handful of them from 2020. The list is long. In terms of the crackdown on Chinese espionage. Everybody from the University of Arkansas Professor indicted for wire and passport fraud to that the head of the biology department at Harvard who were being paid to send information back to China,” Bartiromo said.
“We haven’t seen any indictments under Joe Biden. Has the Espionage threat gone away? Or are their spies right now in the United States, and particularly in Wall Street firms from your standpoint?” she asked.
“I went to Capitol Hill as the Director of National Intelligence last year to brief Congress on those efforts, and particularly on China’s efforts to target members of Congress at a rate of six times greater than any other country,” Ratcliffe said, to Bartiromo’s point.
“And you’re familiar with Chinese spies and relationship with California congressman Eric Swalwell. So you know, the idea that all suddenly stopped, is, you know, nonsensical. The reason you’re not seeing this is, you know, the Department of Justice gets what it focuses on,” he continued.
“And right now, very clearly, the Biden Department of Justice and law enforcement think that American parents are terrorists and not, you know, Chinese espionage agents that are very clearly not just in Washington, D.C., but as you said, in Wall Street, this narrative of China as a noble strategic competitor, you know, as Wall Street banks are selling trillions of dollars in debt and equities in Chinese companies to U.S. investors and retirees,” Ratcliffe went on.
“There are so many both in Washington and in Wall Street that don’t want China to be the bad guy. And as I said before, recent events around the world that resulted in the deaths of 4 million people worldwide at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party through COVID, you know, should teach a lesson that China’s not to be trusted, particularly with regard to national security,” he concluded.
Everything Senile Joe has done has harmed American and so has everyone he has appointed with the gleeful approval of Mitch McConnell and Flimsey Grahamnesty.
Not just buying these Chinese drones but every single policy they have put into effect, everything has been harmful to us.
Oh and BTW, Lets go BRANDON.
I hear Xi is a big art fan. He will be investing heavily in up and coming new artists.
How does it compare to stealing national elections?
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Here is the interview from the former Director of National Intelligence.
https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1447360847626395648
Cheep Remington 870 shotguns do a fine job of knocking them out of bidness.
Cheep buckshot will work.
Steady aim and concentration.
Lead em just a little and concentrate.
just like shooting skeet.
much more satisfying.
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