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Rep. Eric Swalwell, a new member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence in April 2015, sat down for a classified briefing from the FBI on Capitol Hill. The briefing was about him.
Mr. Swalwell was in a relationship with a Chinese national named Fang Fang, who went by Christine Fang in the U.S. The FBI wanted to warn him that she was a spy for Beijing.
“Swalwell was briefed regarding the intelligence cycle and methods by which foreign governments and their agents target politicians,” says a declassified FBI memo. “Specifically, the briefing discussed Fang Fang and her connections to (redacted) and the Chinese intelligence services.”
Two years later, in March 2017, Mr. Swalwell came to the House Select Committee on Intelligence hearing amid the Democrats’ Trump-Russia inquisition.
At the time, Democrats were gorging on their party’s purchased Russian-sourced dossier which talked of President Trump’s supposed romp with sex workers at the Moscow Ritz. (A later independent investigation revealed the story was fake.)
Mr. Swalwell, who was a committee member, depicted himself as a hero watchdog for politicians being compromised by foreign governments in a sex trap, i.e., President Trump.
At the witness table was FBI Director James B. Comey, another member of the dossier fan club.
Mr. Swalwell: I want to talk about the Kremlin playbook and there are a number of ways that a foreign adversary can seek to influence a person. Do you agree with that?
Mr. Comey didn’t mind playing straight man to Mr. Swalwell’s hypocrisy.
Mr. Swalwell: How about inadvertently capturing a compromise, meaning they have vast surveillance and you stumble into that surveillance and are caught in compromise?
Mr. Comey: And then they take that information, try and use it to coerce you? Yes, that’s part of the playbook.
Mr. Swalwell: And in many cases, it could be if that person is ever in a position of power that they could be in a position to influence policy in the United States.
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