Whose Side Are America’s Governors On?

2024-09-04

The FBI arrested one of New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s former top aides for serving with her also-indicted husband the interests of the Chinese Communist Party while doing her day job. These indictments call to mind an urgent heads-up then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave the nation’s governors in 2020. He warned that they and their administrations are among those being aggressively targeted by the CCP’s vast influence operations here. Currently, some of them support Chinese compa...

The FBI arrested one of New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s former top aides for serving with her also-indicted husband the interests of the Chinese Communist Party while doing her day job.

These indictments call to mind an urgent heads-up then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave the nation’s governors in 2020. He warned that they and their administrations are among those being aggressively targeted by the CCP’s vast influence operations here.

Currently, some of them support Chinese companies’ acquisition of farmland. Others have invested their taxpayers’ funds subsidizing PRC factories coming to their states. And Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has been to China thirty times, often bringing along impressionable young Americans.

A recent Present Danger: China webinar documented the counterintelligence nightmare posed by those the Chinese Communists call their “old friends.” What will it take to wake America from this ticking security time-bomb?

This is Frank Gaffney.

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