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Inside the Ring: China Targeted Feinstein

Dianne Feinstein
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August 9, 2018

China’s intelligence service sought to recruit a Chinese-American staff member for Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a lawmaker who had access to the most sensitive U.S. secrets, but Beijing gained no secrets in the case.

The California Democrat said in a statement that the FBI notified her five years ago that a staff member in California was "potentially being sought out by the Chinese government to provide information."

"He was not a mole or a spy, but someone who a foreign intelligence service thought it could recruit," Ms. Feinstein said.

Read the entire article at the Washington Times.

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