SWALWELL AND THE FBI

 

                                                  BY WILLIAM JUNEAU                      

                                Just when U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell figured that  his pillow talk with Christine Fang, the Red China spy,  was tucked away and protected by Nancy Pelosi, fourteen  Republican congressman have decided otherwise.  

                                New York Rep. John Kaito, ranking member of the Homeland Security Committee, and 13 other U.S. Representatives have sent a letter to FBI Director  Christopher Wray requesting a classified briefing on the conduct and activities of Swalwell regarding his relationship with Ms. Fang. Otherwise known to politicians as "Fang Fang, " she was involved with Swalwell for six years, during which time the attractive native of China functioned as Swalwell's  key assistant, fund raiser and public relations face. 

                                Dating back to his first days as a California congressman in 2011,  Swalwell was seen and photographed regularly in the company of the grinning Fang Fang.  In 2012 and 2014  when he ran successfully for election to the Bay area's 15th district, Fang's job was to raise funds and sweet talk VIP donors  with deep pockets.  In 2015,  he was appointed by Speaker Pelosi to the House Intelligence Committee and the House Judiciary Committee and early this year, he was given a seat on the Homeland Security Committee.  

                                 As Swalwell busied himself in congressional matters, Fang Fang recommended an intern for work in his congressional office and the young Chinese woman assumed paper shuffling duties there, always maintaining her close friendship with  her mentor, Fang Fang. 

                                 In 2015, the FBI determined that the PR face  of Swalwell's inner circle was a planted Communist spy and that she reported regularly to her Asian superiors.  Agents buttonholed Swalwell and investigated the extent of their relationship and those of the intern she sponsored in his congressional office.  As inquiries moved forward,  Fang Fang  and her intern friend vanished and apparently returned to their homes in China. 

                                 Reputedly, the 40 year old Swalwell told agents that Fang Fang was just a friend who helped him.   It was all  business stuff, he averred, although agents were suspicious, having established in their investigation that Fang Fang had also befriended at least two mayors of midwest cities and became involved in romantic interludes with them. 

                                 In 2015, Swalwell and his wife were divorced and there were rumors that the young congressman and the alluring Fang Fang had more than a platonic relationship.  In 2016, he married Brittany  Ann Watts, a hotel sales director.

                                 Several months ago, Axios, a news website based in Arlington County, Va.,  began digging into Swalwell's activities and learned of his adventures with the Chinese spy and of FBI investigation of six years ago.  Speaker Pelosi was informed also, and Swalwell told agents that there was no intimate activity with Fang Fang and and that he did not discuss privileged information with her.  Her Communist affiliation was a surprise to him, he said.  With word of the investigation by the FBI, Swalwell told Axios reporters that Fang Fang "just disappeared" and he has not seen or heard from her since 2015. 

                                Swalwell is a favorite gopher for  Speaker Pelosi and was always vociferous in attacking President Trump with claims that he was a pawn of Russian President Putin.  He often asserted that he had seen evidence of Trump's seditious behavior and stood side by side with  Rep. Adam Schiff, Pelosi's other gopher and  California colleague, in denouncing the Republican Chief Executive and Commander-in-Chief with an assortment of lies.  

                                 Swalwell also told reporters last December that he believed his role as a vocal critic of then-President Donald Trump was the motivation for the initial information leak orchestrated by the President.  "I’ve been a critic of President Trump.  I’ve spoken out against him. I was on both committees that worked to impeach him," Swalwell said. The FBI ought to look into that, he added.         

                                 The letter to the FBI read in part, 

                                 "As our nation faces a growing security threat from the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) attempts to infiltrate and undermine the United States Government, we write to request a full briefing regarding counterintelligence threats to Members of Congress, including information related to Rep. Eric Swalwell’s ties to a suspected Chinese intelligence operative."

                                 Kevin McCarthy, Republican minority leader in the House, has demanded that Speaker Pelosi remove Swalwell from his committee assignments. He has also criticized the aged Pelosi for having assigned Swalwell to top secret committees, knowing that he may have been compromised by a Chinese spy.

                                 Congressman Kaito said that Republicans have repeatedly called for Swalwell's removal from the Intelligence Committee, and yet Rep. Swalwell continues to serve on it and was appointed to the Committee on Homeland Security by Speaker Pelosi in the new 117th Congress. 

                        The potential for a security leak from the Committee on Homeland Security by a member who had either hired a Chinese spy to run his office, and possibly share pillow talk, or who was too dumb to recognize a Communist spy after six years of close contact, could have disastrous impacts on national security.

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