Sen. Dianne Feinstein's Husband Partly Owned a Chinese Company That Sold Spyware to U.S. Military

Tells the story of how Sen. Dianne Feinstein's husband Richard Blum was part owner of a Chinese firm that allegedly sold computers with spyware chips to the U.S. military.

The military has never been able to calculate how much sensitive data these computers allowed China to steal.

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, 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 purchase of IBM's personal computer line could jeopardize U.S. national security and transfer advanced American computer technology to China.

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.

In 2019 that found the Department of Defense 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.

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2022/01/26/revealed-sen-dianne-feinsteins-husband-partly-owned-a-chinese-company-that-sold-spyware-to-u-s-military/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_campaign=20220127