It’s now or never to reform US counterintelligence

The United States today confronts the greatest foreign espionage threat this country has ever faced.

Many countries pose espionage problems for America. Still, China’s spy threat far outpaces all others, encompassing human and technical spying. It’s more dangerous even than the massive Soviet espionage effort against us during the Cold War.

Last year, former FBI Director Christopher Wray termed Beijing’s espionage offensive against us the biggest the FBI has ever contended with. It was, he said, “broad and unrelenting,” aimed at “nearly every industry in the U.S. economy,” and almost overwhelming in scale.

House Republicans sounded a similar alarm, warning the public about the Chinese Communist Party’s massive espionage-influence campaign against nearly every aspect of American life. They described Beijing as “an untrustworthy, adversarial actor by continually undermining American interests

Continue reading