Swalwell: McCarthy Wants To Replace Me On Intel Cmte. With Constitution-Denier

[Webster]

Given Swalwell slept with a woman later confirmed to be a Chinese intelligence agent, this isn't a wise hill to die on....

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

My god, i just want one term politicians so I can never see or remember any of these politicians again.

 

[Webster]

My god, i just want one term politicians so I can never see or remember any of these politicians again.

As long as they don't sleep with Chinese spies.....

CNN — Rep. Eric Swalwell told CNN Wednesday that he was “shocked” when the FBI informed him several years ago that he was targeted by a suspected Chinese intelligence operative as part of a broader effort to establish ties with US politicians, reiterating that he immediately cooperated with federal investigators who were looking into the individual in question.

Swalwell was named in an Axios report detailing what US officials believed to be a political intelligence operation run by China’s main civilian spy agency between 2011 and 2015.

The woman at the center of the operation, Fang Fang or Christine Fang, took part in fundraising activity for Swalwell’s 2014 reelection campaign and helped place an intern in the California Democrat’s office, according to Axios.

But as stated in the initial report, Swalwell was never suspected of any wrongdoing, a point he reiterated to CNN on Wednesday. “I was told about this individual and I offered to help,” he told CNN’s Jim Sciutto. “All I did was cooperate and the FBI said that yesterday.”

Swalwell, who serves on the House Intelligence Committee and was very vocal during President Donald Trump’s impeachment proceedings last year, also questioned the timing of the story considering the probe took place several years ago, raising the possibility that it was leaked to harm him politically.

“At the same time this story was being leaked out is the time that I was working on impeachment on the House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees,” he said, referring to the fact that the Axios report was produced after a year-long investigation. “If this is a country where people who criticize the President are going to have law enforcement information weaponized against them, that’s not a country that any of us want to live in. I hope it is investigated who leaked this information,” Swalwell added.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

As long as they don't sleep with Chinese spies.....

No him I want one term and in jail

 

[Webster]

No him I want one term and in jail

I think Speaker McCarthy has other ideas...

McCarthy vows to remove three Dems from committee posts

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) reiterated his pledge to remove Democratic Reps. Eric Swalwell (Calif.), Adam Schiff (Calif.) and Ilhan Omar (Minn.) from their committee posts if he…

thehill.com

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) reiterated his pledge to remove Democratic Reps. Eric Swalwell (Calif.), Adam Schiff (Calif.) and Ilhan Omar (Minn.) from their committee posts if he becomes Speaker in the next Congress.

McCarthy told Fox News “Sunday Morning Futures” host Maria Bartiromo that he would remove Swalwell and Schiff from their posts on the House Intelligence Committee, accusing them of being compromised or biased.

“Eric Swalwell cannot get a security clearance in the public sector. Why would we ever give him a security clearance in the secrets to America? So I will not allow him to be on Intel,” McCarthy said. “You have Adam Schiff, who had lied to the American public time and again. We will not allow him to be on the Intel Committee either.”

Surprisngly, McCarthy's right there; if you can't qualify for a private-sector security clearance, how do you justify being on a committee w/national security secrets?

 

[Webster]

*continues* Plus, he is right on the tit-for-tat argument here; MTG, as much as I despise that woman, was kicked from her committees for things she said prior to becoming a member of Congress, not for anything said after entering Congress.