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Eric Swalwell escalates war with FBI chief Kash Patel over Fang Fang scandal (video)
https://nypost.com/ ^ | March 30, 2026 | Annie Gaus and Benjamin Brown

Posted on 03/31/2026 8:57:55 AM PDT by bitt

Eric Swalwell has issued a cease-and-desist letter to FBI Director Kash Patel over threats to release investigative files about a suspected Chinese spy who infiltrated his office.

In the letter, Swalwell, who is considered the Democratic frontrunner in the race for California governor, demanded the FBI agree within three days not to release the files, and that doing so could result in legal action, according to the Washington Post.

Swalwell held a press conference Monday, insisting the “case is closed” and accused Patel as a “temporary employee” engaged in a “horrendous abuse of power” in digging up the investigative files about him and and Christine Fang — a suspected Chinese Communist Party asset who cultivated ties with the East Bay rep starting when he was a Dublin city council member.

Fang, also known as “Fang Fang,” was a student at California State University East Bay who began schmoozing Swalwell at events, Axios reported in 2020, even bundling donations for his campaign and recommending interns for his office.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chicoms; deadendfbi; ericswalwell; fangfang; kashemailhacked; kashpatel

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1 posted on 03/31/2026 8:57:55 AM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 03/31/2026 8:58:08 AM PDT by bitt (<IMG SRC=' 'WIDTH=500>)
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To: bitt

Swalwell demands not to be investigated by the FBI? Hahahahaha
How come he is still free and not in jail?


3 posted on 03/31/2026 9:03:34 AM PDT by Toughluck_freeper
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There has to be some really bad stuff in those files to make Fartwell fight it so much.


4 posted on 03/31/2026 9:03:57 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: bitt

Is it still an ongoing investigation which would be damaged by release of evidence? Is Patel going to release TS or above classified information? No? No problema. Does Kash have the balz to tell him is f off?


5 posted on 03/31/2026 9:05:23 AM PDT by Segovia (https://townhall.com/columnists/kevinmccullough/2025/07/06/fossil-fooled-lives-vs-lies-n2659950)
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To: bitt

“Legal Action” ... Bring it, you treasonous bastard.


6 posted on 03/31/2026 9:05:32 AM PDT by katana
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To: bitt

FYI mods just pulled my post on confirmed reports Bryon Noem is a sicko cross-dresser because they said it was “tabloid crap” as if it’s not an issue when the head of DHS is idiotically exposed to blackmail.


7 posted on 03/31/2026 9:07:47 AM PDT by Callahan ( )
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To: bitt
Swalwell has no weapons to fight this “war” with.
8 posted on 03/31/2026 9:10:43 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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I just heard a report on this with Swalwell calling it election interference. What kind of system do we live in where it is election interference to inform the voters of all the facts about the person they might be voting for. Keeping information from the voters is election interference IMO.


9 posted on 03/31/2026 9:26:18 AM PDT by Revel
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To: Toughluck_freeper

That is rich. This little worm calling the head of the FBI “a temporary employee”


10 posted on 03/31/2026 9:26:33 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: bitt

He will back off like you did during your Trump Harassment.


11 posted on 03/31/2026 9:29:38 AM PDT by Judge Bean
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To: Segovia

There is no statute of limitations on espionage.


12 posted on 03/31/2026 9:30:18 AM PDT by Judge Bean
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To: bitt

This arsehole should have been in jail years ago.


13 posted on 03/31/2026 9:33:21 AM PDT by spincaster (i)
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Eric Swalwell is the American poster boy for US politicians backed and beholden to China.

For decades the Chinese CCP has had a relentless program to curry favor and build a power base with influence American politicians, government officials, business leaders academic and the media

They are very clever at finding ambitious up and coming members of the above that they can groom for higher office with financial and career development assistance and the CCP has has a major power base in Eric Swalwell’s Bay Area Alameda County district.

They have been grooming Eric Swalwell and other ambitious Americans in and out out of government just like Saddam Hussein used oil vouchers to fund and groomed French and British politicians and ultimately getting Jacques Chirac to the Presidency of France

The FBI should release the details on how Swalwell became an American politician beholden to the CCP

14 posted on 03/31/2026 9:34:22 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead)
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To: Toughluck_freeper

Is he still doing bang bang with Fang Fang?


15 posted on 03/31/2026 9:35:04 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys many aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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Someone here please remind me.

Did Eric Swalwell stand up and complain when the FBI FABRICATED information and charges, in cooperation with the Biden White House, against Trump?


16 posted on 03/31/2026 9:35:12 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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But he was all in on the Epstein files being released when he thought they would harm Trump.


17 posted on 03/31/2026 9:38:34 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: rdcbn1

Agree.


18 posted on 03/31/2026 9:38:48 AM PDT by sauropod
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To: Vigilanteman

Nope. Fang Fang is gone gone.


19 posted on 03/31/2026 9:39:19 AM PDT by Bobbyvotes (Work is worship. Do more work & become mo logical re wealthy. )
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To: Toughluck_freeper

Fang Fang gave Bang Bang to Fartwell. He didn’t break and give her any top secret intelligence information... until she also threw in a BOOM BOOM.


20 posted on 03/31/2026 9:41:33 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (Gavin Newsom is just PRETENDING have Dyslexia as an excuse for being just plain STUPID)
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