Posted on 12/23/2020 4:31:50 AM PST by Kaslin
House Democratic leaders are trying to keep the espionage scandal surrounding Intelligence Committee member Rep. Eric Swalwell under tight control. But it's going to be an uphill battle. Republicans are pushing harder and harder to learn more about Swalwell's relationship with Chinese spy Christine Fang. And the Democrats' strongest ally -- The New York Times, which has averted its eyes and so far refused to publish even one word about the matter -- can't hold out forever.
Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is demanding the FBI brief all members of the Intelligence Committee on what the bureau knows about the relationship between Swalwell and Fang. That relationship began sometime after Fang arrived in the U.S. in 2011, before Swalwell was elected to Congress, and continued through 2015, by which time Swalwell had won election to the House, and Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi picked him for a coveted spot on the Intelligence Committee.
U.S. authorities had Fang under surveillance, and apparently picked up information about her having some sort of personal relationship with a member of Congress -- Swalwell. In 2015, the FBI met with Swalwell -- again, a member of the Intelligence Committee -- to inform him that Fang was a spy. Swalwell says he immediately cut off all contact with Fang, who quickly left the U.S. in mid-2015.
In the next year, 2016, Swalwell started accusing the Trump campaign of collusion with Russia. He proposed a 9/11-style commission to investigate the alleged influence of Russian spy agencies with then-candidate Donald Trump and top members of his campaign. No one in the public knew it at the time, but Swalwell had just recently had some sort of involvement with a spy himself -- one the FBI had actually warned him about. As 2016 and 2017 went on, Swalwell became one of the leading voices attacking President Trump and his Republican defenders on the debunked Russia issue.
Now, Republicans look back on those days and are amazed that Swalwell would play the role of attack dog when he himself had been in close contact with a foreign spy.
"Democrats spent four years accusing Republicans of cozying up to foreign spies when the Democrats themselves were doing that," said Rep. Devin Nunes, the ranking Republican on the Intelligence Committee, in a statement. "Now my Republican colleagues are asking me if there are Democrat pee tapes and if they're being blackmailed with naked pictures of their party leaders. Maybe all the Democrats' accusations stem from what's really happening to them."
There's a lot of history in that statement. The "pee tape" remark is a reference to the Steele dossier, which, among other false allegations, spread the story that private citizen Donald Trump had watched as prostitutes performed a kinky sex act in a Moscow hotel room in 2013 as Russian intelligence services filmed the entire episode.
Swalwell was enormously interested in, perhaps obsessed with, the "pee tape." In November 2017, when the Intelligence Committee interviewed Keith Schiller, a bodyguard who accompanied Trump to Moscow, Swalwell asked question after question after question about the hotel room story. He never got anywhere, because there was no story to tell.
For the GOP, the important thing right now is to learn exactly what the FBI knows about the case. Last week, McCarthy received an FBI briefing on the matter -- the FBI had actually canceled the briefing twice before finally consenting. But the briefing was just for McCarthy and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who were the only two members in the room. The information was classified, and both are forbidden from discussing what was said, which helps Pelosi keep a lid on the matter. But McCarthy made no secret of his belief that the Swalwell case is a very big deal.
"One thing that was fundamentally answered -- he should not be on Intel," McCarthy said after the briefing. In a later interview with Fox News' Martha MacCallum, McCarthy said, "I can't tell you about what [was in the briefing], but I can tell you this. What I learned today, and anyone who was in that room with me would never allow Swalwell to be on the Intel Committee, or to continue to be on it." If any leaders knew about the Swalwell information earlier, McCarthy said, "he should not be serving." That was a direct shot at Pelosi, who had picked the ambitious young congressman for the committee.
The next step for Republicans is to get the FBI to brief all the members of the Intelligence Committee. If more members, including members of Pelosi's party, learn the facts of the case, there will be increasing pressure on Pelosi to do something about it. McCarthy, said one Hill Republican, "thinks both Republicans and Democrats would agree that the information contained in the briefing would lead folks to conclude Swalwell should not be on the committee."
It's unclear when that FBI briefing will occur. Perhaps Pelosi will try to block it. Perhaps she can delay things for a while. But with a diminished majority next year, the speaker will have other fights to fight. At some point, the Eric Swalwell story will come out.
She was pictured with feinsteins chinese spy.
if America must RELY on the ultracorrupt GOP and
American-hating US Congress, in the light
of the seditious DO”J” and solely porn-watching FIB,
then this country is f’d.
I think this statement has been debunked. Or it is, at least, being made without evidence.
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The Democrats’ ________ problem.
Swalwell.
Vote fraud.
Squad.
BLEXIT.
Pelosi.
Evilness.
Back in the eighties I had a clearance on two secret projects. We received curtesy briefings from the FBI. These included presentations showing checks made from KBG bank assets to gay and lesbian organizations and various political figures. We were taken up to the roof and shown antenna spheres on a nearby building which they said had microwave transmitters pinging our windows. (As a result we had a speaker system that played random noise on top of Musak. It was horrible.) I remember one prominent figure was Obama’s communist lover who ran the party in Hawaii.
Later, a negotiator for our company went to Paris to negotiate with the French. When he told the French negotiator that he couldn’t do something, the Frenchman handed him a photo of a document in the US negotiator’s briefcase case and said, “Yes you can.” The US guy got up and left, going home without a deal. (The French never stood down their cold war spies as they were civil servants. They simply redirected them into industrial espionage.)
The point is, everybody in the US who has access to, or actual power, or information, is a target of someone. Our representatives in Congress should be aware of this and, if they are patriots, take precautions. (If they are not patriots, they simply take advantage and sell their access to the highest bidder. Why would Hillary mention the real name of a CIA spy in Iran in an email? My own thought is she was doing it on purpose as an easy way to get that information to her customers.)
None of them, dem or GOPe want to turn over that china rock. It’s their ATM for stabbing Americans in the back.
President made an address which was published in its entirety on OAN this AM.
It’s the first time he’s come out and stated the case and what is at stake.
I think we are looking at the beginning.
Swallwell fell hook, line and sinker into the Chinese trap. The moron Congressman better listen up: the Chinese used him bigtime.
To the Chinese, Swallwell was nothing more than a scatterbrained sucker, who was willingly duped into working against the interests of his own country.
Dongsheng depicted the ease by which Communist Chinese operatives w/ hidden agendas conscripted
“prominent Americans” (the Bidens, Swallwell) and institutions to work against the interests of their own country.
The professor related his own triumphs as a CCP operative in recruiting new and useful American “friends.”
America’s pols fell easily into China’s leveraging of insatiable Western appetites for power, influence, and money.
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After the illuminating talk, the professor donated two kidneys and a liver!
FangFang is not a “honeypot”. She’s just doing business with her allies. California is a suburb of CHYna. Look at your politicians.
Throughout the 1980s, Chinese propaganda urges couples to have children “later, longer, fewer, better”—at a later age, with a longer interval between birth, resulting in fewer children of higher quality. With the 1995 Maternal and Infant Health Law (known as the Eugenic Law until Western opposition forced a name change), China forbade people carrying heritable mental or physical disorders from marrying, and promoted mass prenatal ultrasound testing for birth defects. Deng also encouraged assortative mating through promoting urbanization and higher education, so bright, hard-working young people could meet each other more easily, increasing the proportion of children who would be at the upper extremes of intelligence and conscientiousness.
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Eric the Red? Put him on a slojoe boat to CHYna
Yeah....”donated”....but not willingly....cackle.
If you went and did a true FBI-survey...not just the DC area but the entire 50 states...counting all spies (even industrial type), I suspect more than 200,000 in existence. I would even suggest that in the university management world, at least a hundred spies exist in various layers and set into position to lead universities along a certain path.
It wouldn’t shock me if some bureau exists in China where every single House member/Senator and their entire staff support...are listed out and monitored to some degree.
Swalwell is just one problem out of 10,000.
Agree who says they can’t. If they do report on it they will say it was debunked and Swallwell stopped contact as soon as the FBI informed him. Nothing to see move along.
Of northern can get away with blackface and the nickname “Coonman” then Swalwell can get away with humping a Chinese spy-whore... They are privileged Democrats don’t you know.
I think their only Swalwell problem is that they thought they had Fox News neutered but Fox is desperately trying to regain credibility with conservatives by continuing to talk about it.
Of northern can get away with blackface and the nickname “Coonman”
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They were ‘attempting’ to toss him (Northam) under the bus but found out his #1 Successor had ‘problems’ of his own and the #2 guy was as bad as Northam (publicity wise).
When they figured out that the next in line was an ‘R’, they backed off and we are still stuck with all 3 of them.
To make matters worse, ‘we’ allowed the Ds to take control of both sides of the State House.
Then Northam kicked off his ‘reign’ of terror, all Rs were demonized (the Rs barely squawked when the D’s were going through the motions of purging the top D’s).
We are now stuck with illegals getting driving privileges (AFTER we were ‘forced’ to get positive ID licenses), restrictive gun laws, this ridiculous BeerFlu reaction, police can’t stop a car for headlight out etc etc etc.
I would normally say that next year ‘we’ can turn things around but not as long as the R’s run candidates that won’t ‘recognize’ their opponent or allow districts to run opposed or Rs staying home because of one purported slight against ‘them’ by the candidate.
Trump coould, and should, yank his clearance. What’s stopping him?
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