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Former Senior Staffers From Top Congressional Offices Lobbied For Chinese Military Companies
https://dailycaller.com/ ^ | 10/19 | robert schmad

Posted on 10/21/2024 8:25:20 PM PDT by bitt

High-ranking alumni of some of the most powerful congressional offices in the country have lobbied on behalf of companies controlled or greatly influenced by the Chinese military, disclosures show.

Former congressional staffers with ties to powerful members of Congress, like Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Republican House Whip Steve Scalise, have worked to influence policy on behalf of Pentagon-designated “Chinese military companies” like DJI, BGI and Huawei. Chinese military companies are those the Department of Defense (DOD) has determined are “directly or indirectly owned, controlled or beneficially owned by” the Chinese military, as well as those that contribute to China’s military-industrial complex.

“If a lobbying firm chooses to represent a Chinese Military Company then they should be barred from representing any companies that contract with the DOD,” New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “It is disgraceful that American citizens are working to advance the modernization efforts of Communist Chinese military technology that could one day be used against our service members.”

Lobbyists will often leverage relationships they developed while working on Capitol Hill, including with members of Congress, to advance the interests of their clients. A 2012 study conducted by a trio of economists found that lobbyists who had previously worked in the Senate saw an immediate 24% drop in generated revenue after their former boss left office, indicating that lobbyists can sell access to their former bosses.

Nick Sutter, for instance, spent seven years working for Democratic Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell between 2011 and 2018, plus an additional nine months in Schumer’s office. Now, Sutter is an associate at Steptoe LLP, a large corporate influence shop in D.C., and lobbied on behalf of the Chinese military company BGI Group in 2023, disclosures show. Cantwell serves as the chairwoman of the powerful

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1 posted on 10/21/2024 8:25:20 PM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 10/21/2024 8:25:33 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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https://dailycaller.com/2024/10/21/former-obama-ag-suing-pentagon-on-behalf-of-chinese-military-company/

Former Obama AG Suing Pentagon On Behalf Of Chinese Military Company

A former Obama administration official is providing legal services to a company the Department of Defense (DOD) asserts has deep ties to the Chinese military.

Loretta Lynch, who served as former President Barack Obama’s attorney general from 2015 to 2017, is one of five attorneys from the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison listed as representing Chinese drone manufacturer DJI in a lawsuit filed October 18 challenging the Pentagon’s designation of the drone company as a “Chinese military company,” court documents show. The DOD added DJI to its Section 1260H entity list of “Chinese military companies” in 2022, meaning that it determined the drone manufacturer is “directly or indirectly owned, controlled or beneficially owned by” the Chinese armed forces or otherwise complicit in supporting the Chinese military-industrial complex.

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3 posted on 10/21/2024 8:44:46 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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Years ago, the term “decoupling” became popular regards this issue.

I actually do see signs of that happening to some degree. i.e. Dell, HP, etc.


4 posted on 10/21/2024 8:53:30 PM PDT by Red6
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Reimagine US Congress criminal’s aids lobbying for Hitler and the Nazis. Would they have been prosecuted for treason?


5 posted on 10/21/2024 8:56:34 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: bitt
Repeating from the article:

"Loretta Lynch, who served as former President Barack Obama’s attorney general from 2015 to 2017,

is one of five attorneys from the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

listed as representing Chinese drone manufacturer DJI in a lawsuit filed October 18 [2024]

challenging the Pentagon’s designation of the drone company as a “Chinese military company,” court documents show."


6 posted on 10/21/2024 9:12:08 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: bitt

Traitors that need to be treated just so, hanged.


7 posted on 10/21/2024 9:19:30 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (More important than why there was nobody protecting the AGR roof, how did Crooks know that?)
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To: bitt

A pox on all their houses!


8 posted on 10/21/2024 9:20:37 PM PDT by antceecee ( )
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To: bitt
“If a lobbying firm chooses to represent a Chinese Military Company then they should be barred from representing any companies that contract with the DOD,” New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “It is disgraceful that American citizens are working to advance the modernization efforts of Communist Chinese military technology that could one day be used against our service members.”

Sometimes it seems the people with the largest mansions are the ones selling out the country to China...

9 posted on 10/22/2024 2:11:09 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats do voter fraud by voting the people who don't show up to vote.)
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The Rot starts at the TOP and works its way down……


10 posted on 10/22/2024 4:22:23 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: bitt
The question I have is 'how should the U.S. legally treat nations deemed a threat or potential threat to our nation?' China is such a nation.

Must we wait for a kinetic war to ensue before we finally place legal restrictions on our citizens and nations?

I assume that the swamp is flush with money from China and other adversaries and our government has no interest or will to put an end to lobbying efforts from our enemies. The love of money and power is the root of all evil. Am I right to assume only a kinetic war with a nation will result in ending lobbying dollars from that nation.

Biden is the poster child for selling out the nation for dollars. Presumably, he's done so legally due to pathetic legal loopholes in our law. Sadly, Biden is only one of many corrupt, greedy and power hungry actors in our government and nation. We need to change our laws!

11 posted on 10/22/2024 5:05:54 AM PDT by JesusIsLord
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To: drypowder
Would they have been prosecuted for treason?

I believe lobbying for German and Japanese interests continued legally until war was declared.

12 posted on 10/22/2024 5:09:51 AM PDT by JesusIsLord
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13 posted on 03/10/2025 3:16:55 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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The other four attorneys with Lynch in the court document are:

Kannon Shanmugam
Roberto J. Gonzalez
Samuel Rebo
Simona Shimeng Xu

Schumer’s brother Robert also works at Paul Weiss, as does Mark Pomerantz.


14 posted on 03/10/2025 5:40:13 PM PDT by Fedora
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