Ben Weingarten: "Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s Ties To China Go Way Deeper Than An Alleged Office Spy"

Referring to the Chinese spy who was Feinstein's driver and aide:

As media, intelligence agency, and political scrutiny of foreign meddling is seemingly at its apex, a story with big national security implications involving a high-ranking senator with access to America’s most sensitive intelligence information has been hiding in plain sight.

The story involves China and the senior U.S. senator from California, and former chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Democrat Dianne Feinstein. It was buried eight paragraphs into a recent Politico exposé on foreign efforts to infiltrate Silicon Valley, as a passing example of political espionage...

Is it just a spy planted on an unsuspecting Democrat, or is it more than that?

This Is About Much More than a Chinese Spy

Let us review the facts here.

• China has for almost 40 years cultivated warm relations with Feinstein.
• Feinstein has uniformly taken political positions supporting greater ties with China while taking a relatively dovish and strictly apologist line on its human rights atrocities.
• Feinstein’s husband has profited handsomely during Feinstein’s career from the greatly expanded China trade she supported. It is of course possible that the Feinstein family’s privileged position with the Chinese regime improved his investment opportunities.
• Feinstein has served as a key intermediary between China and the U.S. government, while serving on committees whose work would be of keen interest to the PRC.
• A staffer of almost two decades in close proximity to Feinstein was allegedly successfully recruited by China’s MSS and fed China “political intelligence.”

Imagine for a second how a motivated and empowered prosecutor would operate in this situation if tasked with exploring “any links and/or coordination” between the Chinese government, Feinstein, and individuals associated with her office.

Few American officials could have been as potentially exposed to the PRC’s skilled intelligence service as Feinstein. Here we have not only proof of a spy, but real evidence of consistently pro-Chinese policy that at very best created the appearance of a financial conflict of interest.

At a time when foreign meddling in America's politcal life is the main subject of the 24/7 news cycle,why is Senator Feinstein's relationship to China not of interest to the brave men and women of the press ... you know, the ones who are as brave and loyal as soldiers.