Its a Democrat

There are two possible stories here.

The first is that China used espionage to get state secrets out of weak American politicians.

The second is that China spent millions of dollars on a program to send hot spies to america. A program that didnt succeed in getting any state secrets but instead got impregnated by a bunch of ugly politicians.

Most people are worried about the former but Im pretty sure the latter happened.

A defensive briefing was provided to Swalwell, who tipped off the Chinese spy (unwittingly or wittingly), who subsequently fled the country. There is a reason that tipping off is illegal with respect to AML regulations, and people can and do go to jail over it. The actions taken here led to the Chinese spy escaping the country.

Lol at "we have dirt on Hillary Clinton" used to "reasonably infer" that the Russians were somehow involved. "Clinton body count" has been a running joke for decades.

If he tipped off a foreign spy and she escaped then this is either incompetence or treason, in either case it seemed like the fbi knew about her for some time so why didn't they just apprehend her?

We have spies in their country and they have spies than ours. A lot of the time it's actually better to not apprehend them and to just keep a close eye on them so you can get an idea of what their operations are and intercept Communications

I'd wager the former. It sounds like he "immediately" cut off all contact with her, which is something we're specifically instructed not to do when there's an active investigation into illicit activity. But that may not be his fault, perhaps the FBI advised him to do that in which case I'd fault the FBI.

As for why they didn't arrest her, assumably to continue and gather evidence.

This post was edited by bogie160 on Dec 10 2020 12:15pm

Where has that been reported? Are we making more assumptions not backed by hard evidence?

"The Russians have dirt on Hillary" could be used to reasonably infer that the Russians were somehow involved, yes.

Loser's cultists have very few bones to gnaw these days.
This story is far below vs what happened with Russia.

This post was edited by Saucisson6000 on Dec 10 2020 12:22pm

Ted Cruz with a BIG W

My point wasnt that what Swalwell did was super bad, my point is that he doesnt deserve the praise he was given by IceMage. Not falling for a trap set by foreign agents is the exemplary behavior here, rather than foolishly stumbling into it and then cooperating with the counterintelligence agencies after the fact.

"How impactful was the misconduct" is a different question than "how recommendable or irresponsibly did the politician handle his misconduct once it came out".