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China’s spying campaign is pervasive and relentless. Former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director, Christopher Wray said, ““The PRC [People’s Republic of China] has made it clear that it considers every sector that makes our society run as fair game in its bid to dominate on the world stage, and that its plan is to land low blows against civilian infrastructure to try to induce panic and break America’s will to resist.” Well said by former Director Wray, but if the FBI and Department of Justice had spent less time spying on Catholics, Pro-Lifers, and School Board attendees, maybe they would...

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul ripped the Supreme Court on Friday after it unanimously upheld a federal law requiring TikTok's parent company to sell its United States operations by January 19 or face a nationwide ban. Paul said he was disappointed in the ruling, adding, "I do believe that banning a social media app like TikTok is a violation of the First Amendment." Congress passed the law with broad bipartisan support last year after lawmakers argued that TikTok's ties to China represented a significant national security risk. The Supreme Court's nine justices sided with Congress on Friday, saying in an unsigned...

The United States Department of Justice has charged a Chinese citizen for using a drone to capture images of a Virginia shipyard engaged in the construction of US Navy nuclear submarines. The case, reported by Wired magazine, represents uncharted territory within legal proceedings. It is ‘the first case of its kind’ under a long-standing law dating back to World War II, which prohibits the aerial documentation of crucial military installations. The accused, Fengyun Shi, a graduate student at the University of Minnesota, faces six Espionage Act misdemeanors. The charges stem from an incident on January 5, 2024, when Shi, on...

Fred Fleitz Former Chief of Staff of the National Security Council* was just interviewed (Feb 7, 2023) on TMZ live https://twitter.com/TMZLive "Tiktok under microscope after spy Balloon fiasco." Recap, Fleitz says, the balloon was a rest to see how the US would react and that Biden failed in that. The real danger of Chinese spying is in such methods like vi a TikTok that gathers info. His earlier clip, on Fox: Time for the US to ban TikTok: Fred Fleitz | Fox News Video, Dec 3, 2022.https://www.foxnews.com/video/6316540207112ved=2ahUKEwjSvtPMoIT9AhXcczABHWD9DlIQtwJ6BAgSEAI&usg=AOvVaw0_alaZ1ac4zc7A1EyWSZOP

Conservative House leader Gerard Deltell moved a motion Wednesday calling for PHAC to be found in contempt of Parliament and its president, Iain Stewart, to be summoned before the bar of the House to be admonished by the Speaker... Rota ruled that the Trudeau government has not complied with an order, passed by the Commons earlier this month, to produce the documents. As such, he said there’s a prima facie case that it has breached MPs’ privileges... Deltell’s motion was debated at length Wednesday and will be put to a vote Thursday. If it passes — which seems likely given...

... Over hours of debate in the House of Commons, Conservative, NDP and Bloc Québécois members repeatedly called on the Liberal government to provide details as to why two scientists were fired from Winnipeg’s high-security National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) earlier this year, amid an RCMP investigation into the matter... “How could scientists with deep connections to the Chinese military be able to gain access to a high-level Canadian security-cleared laboratory with the world’s most dangerous viruses?” Conservative MP John Williamson asked during debate... Dr. Xiangguo Qiu and her biologist husband, Keding Cheng, were escorted out of the NML in July...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s office was infiltrated by a Chinese spy who worked as her driver and attended official functions on her behalf for 20 years, according to new reports from Politico and The San Francisco Chronicle. Feinstein reportedly had no idea that her office was being infiltrated by a man who was feeding information to an individual linked to China’s Ministry of State Security. She was “mortified” when the FBI showed up at her Washington DC office five years ago to warn her about the mole. Feinstein, who was serving as chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee at the time,...

A U.S. intelligence report for the first time links China’s largest telecommunications company to Beijing’s KGB-like intelligence service and says the company recently received nearly a quarter-billion dollars from the Chinese government. The disclosures are a setback for Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.’s efforts to break into the U.S. telecommunications market. The company has been blocked from doing so three times by the U.S. government because of concerns about its links to the Chinese government. The report by the CIA-based Open Source Center states that Huawei’s chairwoman, Sun Yafang, worked for the Ministry of State Security (MSS) Communications Department before joining...

Last week brought yet another reminder of the deceitfulness of the Chinese Communists. The people Barack Obama has entrusted the fate of our nation to are stealing the design secrets of what is left of our auto manufacturing base. And all the while Obama is burrowing more and more money from our “friends” in Beijing. A legal Chinese alien who worked for Ford from 1997 to 2007 was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison and ordered to pay a $12,500 fine upon his guilty plea to two counts of stealing trade secrets from his American employer during the decade...