Swalwell: Never shared sensitive information
Rep. Eric Swalwell said he was “shocked” when the FBI informed him several years ago that he was targeted by a suspected Chinese intelligence operative as part of a broader effort to establish ties with U.S. politicians, reiterating that he immediately cooperated with federal investigators who were looking into the individual in question. Swalwell was named in an Axios report detailing what U.S. officials believed to be a political intelligence operation run by China’s main civilian spy agency between 2011 and 2015.
The woman at the center of the operation, Fang Fang or Christine Fang, took part in fundraising activity for Swalwell’s 2014 reelection campaign and helped place an intern in the California Democrat’s office, according to Axios. But as stated in the initial report, Swalwell was never suspected of any wrongdoing, a point he reiterated Wednesday.