On 8/4/2022, during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, FBI Director Christopher Wray said that the FBI is opening counterintelligence investigations into China as often as every 12 hours, “in addition to the every 12 hours on the counter intelligence side, the Chinese government has a bigger hacking program on the cyber side that we’re up against than that of every other major nation combined and have stolen and have stolen more of Americans personal and corporate data than every nation combined.”
During the Senate hearing, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham asked Wray, “When it comes to China how many cases a week will you open up against Chinese agents trying to engage in illegal espionage activity in the United States?”
Wray: well uh frankly I wish I could measure it by week senator we are opening a new China-related counter-intelligence investigation about every 12 hours.
okay stop thank you to the American people every 12 hours the FBI is investigating some nefarious activity driven by the Chinese communist party against American interests is that a fair statement?
Wray: yes it is
so when you talk to the ambassador to China as a member of congress house or senate and you ask them this question and they say they’re not engaged in such such activity. Would that can would you consider that a misleading statement?
Wray: well senator I would I would find it inconsistent with our experience as you’ve heard from this hearing there’s no shortage of things for FBI agents to be working on so I can tell you and I would tell him that the reason we’re opening a new investigation every 12 hours sure as heck ain’t because we don’t have enough else to do.
and on the level of severity the harm it could do to our country uh some of these cases pretty severe in nature?
Wray: absolutely it represents the potential of who’s going to dominate the most significant industry sectors for for decades.
so number one America is virtually under attack by Chinese espionage activity and our economic sector uh every 12 hours so that’s where we’re at do you need more resources than you have today to combat this?
Wray: absolutely
just write it down and I dare somebody to say no.
Wray: the point I would add to that center because I think you’re you’re hitting an important topic here which is in addition to the every 12 hours on the counter intelligence side, the Chinese government has a bigger hacking program on the cyber side that we’re up against than that of every other major nation combined and have stolen and have stolen more of Americans personal and corporate data than every nation combined so we will absolutely need more resources to be able to keep pace with something like that.
so write it down if you don’t write it down you got nobody to blame but yourself if you write it down and we say no then you can blame us.
Asked his reaction to the news that al-Zawahri was ultimately tracked to a Taliban-controlled guesthouse in the Afghan capital of Kabul so soon after the U.S. withdraw, Wray said: “Not surprised, but disappointed.” Graham pressed Wray on what such a close association of al-Qaida and the Taliban might mean for the U.S. and its allies, he asked Wray if he was “surprised that, one, he was in Kabul, al Zawahiri, staying at the house, a guest house owned by the Haqqani No. 2 guy of the Taliban?” Wray replied that he was “not surprised, but disappointed.” Graham followed up by asking: “What does it tell us about the relationship between al Qaeda and the Taliban if the leader of al Qaeda is staying in a house owned by the No. 2 guy in the Taliban?” “Nothing good,” Wray replied.
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FBI Dir: new China probes ‘every 12 hours’, China’s stolen more US personal & Corp data than every other nation combined.