BUSTED: Feinstein’s Husband Owned a Chinese Company That Installed Spyware on U.S. Military Machines

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Dianne Feinstein's husband co-owned Chinese firm that installed spyware on U.S. military machines

Dianne Feinstein’s longstanding connections to Communist China have been extremely profitable to her family at the expense of U.S. national security, accoridng to evidence in a bombshell new book.

Peter Schweizer’s book Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win tells the story of how Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s husband Richard Blum was co-owner of a Chinese firm that sold computers with spyware chips to the U.S. military.

Feinstein, like other senior Democrats, has made herself invaluable to Beijing — so invaluable that she once shamelessly tried to excuse the Tiananmen Square massacre by suggesting China only called in combat troops to murder thousands of demonstrators because of a cop shortage.

Breitbart.com reports: In a total coincidence that could not possibly have been related in any way to Feinstein’s friendship with the tyrants of Beijing, her husband did a great deal of lucrative business with Chinese companies, including entities run by the Communist government and linked to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). 

One of those deals saw Blum becoming a major investor in a computer company that was founded by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), an institution tied to both the Chinese government and the PLA. The company was originally called Legend, but is better known by its second name, Lenovo.

Lenovo grew into a major player in the worldwide computer marketplace after it acquired IBM’s line of personal computer products in 2005. Lenovo’s deal to buy IBM’s business included $350 million in investments from three American private equity firms. One of them was Richard Blum’s Newbridge Capital.

Some lawmakers worried Lenovo’s purchase of IBM’s personal computer line could jeopardize U.S. national security and transfer advanced American computer technology to China. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who sat on the Senate Intelligence Committee at the time, was not one of them.

It did not take long for security agencies across the Western world — including the U.S., U.K., Canada, New Zealand, and Australia — to discover security vulnerabilities in Lenovo products and ban them from sensitive operations. The U.S. State Department announced it would not allow Lenovo computers to connect to its classified networks in 2006, barely a year after the IBM acquisition. 

Somehow Lenovo still managed to sell a large number of laptop computers to the U.S. military, which discovered that many of those machines included motherboard chips that “would record all the data that was being inputted into that laptop and send it back to China,” as a computer operations manager for the U.S. Marines in Iraq put it.

A year after that testimony was delivered, Blum sold his stake in Lenovo. 

The Pentagon released an audit in 2019 that found the Department of Defense (DoD) still has not formally banned computers from Lenovo, now the largest personal computer company in China, even though the Department of Homeland Security and the Joint Chiefs of Staff Intelligence Directorate have both identified the machines as cyberespionage risks. The U.S. Air Force purchased 1,378 Lenovo products worth $1.9 million as recently as 2018.

Red-Handed was published by Harper-Collins. Schweizer is the president of the nonpartisan Government Accountability Institute (GAI) and a senior contributor to Breitbart News.

15 Comments

    • I lived in Calif almost all my life and I’m 67 y.o. I lived in San Francisco when Diane became mayor – I totally agree with you. I’ve watched them take over and destroy a state that was free and was paradise. I left last June for a red state, never to look back. Very sad.

  1. This is what has happened or been happening over the decades.
    The central bank owners have Identified Psychopaths early on and have groomed them to do their their bidding. the funded them, and placed them in schools, put them thru training, and positioned them in all levels of government.
    This is what MK ultra was all about.
    There is an army of these psychopaths and sociopaths through out the western world set up to do the bidding of the central bankers.
    This is the truth ladies and gentlemen.

    • Partly Martin Bormann is the biggest most successful robber in the world’s history He got away with almost all of the loot from the Holocaust He disappeared ,and they say he was killed ,but I doubt it ,and he had 10 kids None of the bulk of the loots ever been recovered .His kids are top secret .There’s your clue to why neo Nazism is rife .The fortune Bormann took us so massive it’s almost un believable The entire asserts of well over 6 million people extracted into one person’s account.

  2. Where a company is registered gas nothing to do with the owners nationality or loyalty I’d it did the entire internet would be Irish.

    • If it did it would all be Irish Apple Microsoft Huawei etc etc all have their offices in At Patrick’s homeland where the goodly government let’s them pay zero taxes back to communities they extract billions from for their spyware It’s ALL spyware .Every bit of it.

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