by Josh Christenson
The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed the Department of Homeland Security on Monday following whistleblower allegations about an internal employee group chat discussing “serious concerns” about Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s China ties — some of which have been documented in classified files.
Oversight panel Chairman James Comer revealed the internal debate on the “longstanding connection” between Walz and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials in a Monday letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, according to a copy obtained by The Post.
“Specifically, through whistleblower disclosures, the Committee has learned of a non-classified, Microsoft Teams group chat among DHS employees—titled ‘NST NFT Bi-Weekly Sync’—that contains information about Governor Walz that is relevant to the Committee’s investigation,” Comer (R-Ky.) wrote.
The group chat initials stand for “Nation State Threat — National Functional Team,” according to an Oversight spokesman.
“The Committee has also learned that further relevant information regarding Governor Walz has been memorialized in both classified and unclassified documents in the control of DHS,” he also noted.
Comer demanded all records on the internal group chat between July 1 and the present, as well as any Intelligence Information Reports or Regional Intelligence Notes between November 2023 and the present.
“[I]f a state governor and major political party’s nominee for Vice President of the United States has been a witting or unwitting participant in the CCP’s efforts to weaken our nation, this would strongly suggest that there are alarming weaknesses in the federal government’s effort to defend the United States from the CCP’s political warfare that must be urgently addressed,” he told Mayorkas.
The subpoena comes as officials at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence warned in a briefing earlier this month that China’s election interference efforts have been focused on state and local government officials.
This year, the Oversight Committee ramped up an investigation into the federal government’s response to broadening CCP influence to “weaken and corrupt” the US.
It began targeting Walz’s “cozy” relationship with China by making a records request of the FBI just before the Minnesota governor and former US House lawmaker became the Democratic vice presidential nominee.
The FBI never responded to the request.
Rep. Jim Banks, a Navy Reserve officer and member of the House Armed Services Committee, also separately asked for information from the Pentagon about 30 trips Walz had made to China, a dozen of which occurred while he was a member of the US military between 1989 and 2005.
“Any individual traveling dozens of times to an adversary nation in a personal capacity while having access to classified information poses an obvious security risk,” Banks (R-Ind.) told Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in an Aug. 13 letter.
Military members must complete foreign travel reports when returning to the US, which may have included “any potentially suspicious interaction that occurred,” he added.
Brian J. Cavanaugh, a former National Security Council senior director in the Trump White House, previously said that if Walz didn’t file any reports, “the risks of him jeopardizing national security are very real, especially given his tenor and tone towards his time in China.”
In 1990, Walz reminisced of his first days in the Far East: “No matter how long I live, I will never be treated that well again. … They gave me more gifts than I could bring home. It was an excellent experience.”
Yeah, he can look forward to having that demand satisfied in about 6 months… if Republicans still control the House. This fascist regime will run out the clock on any such requests.
And, don’t expect the media (other than possibly Fox, Newsmax or OneAmerica, to report this even though it poses a credible national security threat, even though they went wild with the absolutely false narrative of Russian collusion and Trump being a Russian asset. Putting far left Democrat socialists in the White House is far more important to them than national security.
“No matter how long I live, I will never be treated that well again. … They gave me more gifts than I could bring home. It was an excellent experience.” Most would call them BRIBES and an honest, patriotic man/woman would say thanks but no thanks. Walz is neither honest or a patriot, he’s a disgrace to the Uniform.
Someone is trying to end up trying to stop the election
Close ties to the commies in China and he locked down free people of Minnesota for the covid excuse.
After the vax turned out to be worse than the disease it was supposed to treat, we started having huge excess deaths reported.
Remember the Texas pipeline fire from a couple days ago?
An older vaxxed man had been having seizures ever since his third covid jab.
His remains were just ID’ed from the charred wreakage of the SUV he drove into the pipeline.
The Chinese commies and their allies, like Walz, are trying to kill Americans.
Far more Americans died than Chinese.
The virus was designed in a lab in China.
If it were a random virus it would have killed indiscriminately, not like it did.