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February 7, 2023
House Republican Agenda
House Republican leaders hold a news conference to discuss the legislative agenda for the week as the president prepares to deliver his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress.
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>DOJ abandons Trump-era program aimed at Chinese spying
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DOJ abandons Trump-era program aimed at Chinese spying
Asian-American groups criticized the effort, saying it contributed to bias against Chinese immigrants and Americans of Chinese descent.
A vehicle drives past the Department of Justice building in Washington on Feb. 9, 2022.
A vehicle drives past the Department of Justice building in Washington on Feb. 9, 2022.Stefani Reynolds / AFP - Getty Images file
Feb. 23, 2022, 3:03 PM EST
By Pete Williams and Ken Dilanian
The Justice Department is ending its China Initiative, a program that Asian-American groups said contributed to bias against Chinese immigrants and Americans of Chinese descent and that resulted in some high-profile prosecutorial failures.
Launched under the Trump administration and intended to identify and prosecute Chinese threats to national security, it also led to criminal charges against researchers and academics that collapsed.
“Make no mistake. We will be relentless in defending our country from China,” said Matt Olsen, the assistant attorney general in charge of the national security division. But he said “a new approach is needed to tackle the most severe threats from a range of hostile nation-states.”
Olsen said a three-month review, including discussions with the FBI and other intelligence agencies, research agencies and universities, convinced him that the initiative was too narrowly focused. He said representatives of the Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities said the program contributed to a rise in bias against them.
“We helped give rise to a harmful perception that the department applies a lower standard to investigate and prosecute criminal conduct related to that country or that we in some way view people with racial, ethnic, or family ties to China differently,” he said.
In a speech at George Mason University and in comments to reporters, Olsen said his division is looking at threats from all countries, including not only China, but also Russia, Iran and North Korea, that seek to steal U.S. government secrets and American technological innovations.
The China Initiative led to a series of prosecutions against researchers and academics, accusing them of failing to disclose dealings with China when submitting applications for grants.
In one of the most recent case to fall apart, prosecutors last month dropped all charges against a Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist, Gang Chen.
“For 371 days, my family and I went through a living hell,” Chen wrote in an essay published by The Boston Globe, referring to the length of time the charges against him were pending.
“While I am relieved that my ordeal is over, I am mindful that this terribly misguided China Initiative continues to bring unwarranted fear to the academic community and other scientists still face charges,” Chen said in a statement.
Also in the crosshairs was Qing Wang, who spent two decades working at the Cleveland Clinic, where he was leading a research project into the genetic causes of heart disease, funded by more than $3.6 million in federal grants from the National Institutes of Health.
He was accused of failing to disclose that he was part of the "Thousand Talents" program, was dean of a Chinese university, and was receiving nearly half a million dollars in Chinese government grants for research that overlapped with his U.S.-funded work.
Prosecutors dropped the charges, but Wang is now in Shanghai, looking for work.
“They are creating such a fear in the scientific community,” he told NBC News last year. “I’m pretty sure many people will move back to China. So that’s actually they are doing a favor to the Chinese government.”
Olsen said one of the concerns he heard during his review was that “we have undermined our ability to attract the best and the brightest to come to this country to conduct research, study, and teach. That’s also a national security priority.”
FBI Director Christopher Wray as been the federal government’s most outspoken critic of China’s spying. He said the FBI is launching an average of two counterintelligence investigations a day to keep up and has more than 2,000 such cases currently underway.
“There is no country that presents a broader, more severe threat to our innovation, our ideas, and our economic security than China does,” Wray said.
Olsen said he agreed with Wray’s overall assessment of the Chinese government’s spying efforts but said other countries present different kinds of threats to U.S. national security.
>“Make no mistake. We will be relentless in defending our country from China,” saidMatt Olsen, the assistant attorney general in charge of the national security division. But he said “a new approach is needed to tackle the most severe threats from a range of hostile nation-states.”
July 09, 2014
Statement by the President on the Resignation of Matt Olsen
Most Americans may not know Matt Olsen’s name, but every American is safer because of his service. As Director of the National Counterterrorism Center for the past three years, Matt and the dedicated professionals he has led at the NCTC have been absolutely critical to our success in disrupting terrorist cells, thwarting attacks and protecting the American people from evolving threats at home and abroad. I’ve relied on Matt’s wise judgment and counsel, and I am especially grateful for his work to ensure that our counterterrorism efforts remain consistent with the rule of law and our values as a nation. As he concludes 24 years of federal service, I thank Matt for a distinguished career that has left our nation more secure and even better prepared to meet the threats of our time.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/07/09/statement-president-resignation-matt-olsen
Obama Official Matthew Olsen, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Says Benghazi Killings was a terrorist attack
The gig is up for the Obama spin machine and this Obama foreign policy debacle …
Finally after eight days of denial and insulting the intelligence of Americans and spinning the truth of what happened, an Obama official admits that the attacks on the Benghazi consulate and the murder of Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans was the results of a terrorist attack. Even the Obama spin machine could not cover this travesty up. After shamelessly stating that the attacks were a result of an anti-Mohammad video trailer of a movie no one has seen, the lie is over. Four dead and an American Ambassador to Libya murdered, sodomized and dragged through the streets on the 11th anniversary of 9-11. This Administration is going to have a hard time explaining to total and complete security failure.
The Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was in fact “a terrorist attack” and the U.S. government has indications that members of al Qaeda were directly involved, a top Obama administration official said Wednesday morning.
“I would say yes, they were killed in the course of a terrorist attack on our embassy,” Matt Olsen, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said Wednesday at a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, in response to questioning from Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-CT) about the attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
As for who was responsible, Olsen said it appears there were attackers from a number of different militant groups that operate in and around Benghazi, and said there are already signs of al Qaeda involvement.
“We are looking at indications that individuals involved in the attack may have had connections to al Qaeda or al Qaeda’s affiliates; in particular, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb,” he said.
However, after previously spinning the obvious that the Benghazi attacks were terror related, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney declined to say that security was adequate at the Libyan consulate in Benghazi. Carney was rather silent on blaming the video for the attacks. The gig is up and this foreign policy fiasco will have major ramifications. No wonder Sec, of State Hillary Clinton was no where to be found on the Sunday talk shows this past weekend.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney today declined to say that security was adequate at the Libyan consulate in Benghazi during that the assault that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya last week on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, saying the matter is being studied.
Asked by Ed Henry of Fox News is there was sufficient security at the consulate, Carney replied, “I am simply saying that this is a matter under investigation.”
Carney added, however, that there were steps “taken both seen and unseen in advance in preparation for times like 9/11.”
http://scaredmonkeys.com/2012/09/19/obama-official-matthew-olsen-director-of-the-national-counterterrorism-center-says-benghazi-killings-was-a-terrorist-attack/