House intel chief warns foreign actors are conspiring with Americans to ‘sow discord’ inside U.S.

“We need to know about it. We need to be in a position to intercept those kinds of things and protect our citizens here at home,” Rep. Rick Crawford says.

ouse Intelligence Committee Chairman Rick Crawford, R-Ark., is pressing for major counterintelligence reforms across spy agencies, starkly warning that foreign actors are conspiring with Americans to destabilize and divide the United States.

“I think there is a whole network of both state and non-state actors that bring that to bear here in the United States, that is to exploit any kind of political divide that might exist, or schisms that may exist, even within a political party,” Crawford told Just the News in a wide-ranging interview.

“So they kind of help sow discord. We've seen malign influence from state actors that include China and Russia and Iran. But then there's also the non-state actors that can be doing the bidding of a nation state," he said.

“For example, what if you had, let's say Russia was essentially paying for cyberattacks against certain targets, or that China might be doing the same thing,” he added. “China might be mobilizing the diaspora that lives here in the United States, maybe United States citizens, but they have this underlying allegiance to the mother country and China seeks to exploit that.”

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