This important opinion piece by Michelle Van Cleave deserves to read by all Americans. She documents to degree of espionage in the United States conducted by our adversaries and allies.
The Chinese stole the design secrets to all — repeat, all — U.S. nuclear weapons, enabling them to leapfrog generations of technology development and put our nuclear arsenal, the country’s last line of defense, at risk. To this day, we don’t know quite when or how they did it, but we do know that Chinese intelligence operatives are still at work, systematically targeting not only America’s defense secrets but our industries’ valuable proprietary information.
Stunning. That happened on Clinton’s watch. No doubt Americans are going to received some nasty surprises from the Chinese due to the country’s neglect of counter-espionage.
Historically, embassies and other diplomatic establishments within the United States have served as ready-made safe houses for foreign spies masquerading as diplomats, which is why the 20,000-strong diplomatic community has traditionally commanded the lion’s share of counterintelligence attention. But in America today, there are thousands of foreign-owned commercial establishments, hundreds of thousands of exchange students and visiting academicians, and countless routine trade and financial interactions. Hidden beneath these open and legitimate activities can be darker purposes. With our open, rich society as cover, intelligence officers and their agents can move about freely, develop contacts and operate in the shadows — a point no more lost on foreign spies than it was on the 19 hijackers that September morning in 2001.
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