{"id":2592769,"date":"2026-04-20T11:41:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reporter-who-admits-she-had-info-on-swalwell-abuse-during-chinese-spy-investigation-but-didnt-pursue-it-blames-conservative-media\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T11:46:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:46:03","slug":"reporter-who-admits-she-had-info-on-swalwell-abuse-during-chinese-spy-investigation-but-didnt-pursue-it-blames-conservative-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reporter-who-admits-she-had-info-on-swalwell-abuse-during-chinese-spy-investigation-but-didnt-pursue-it-blames-conservative-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporter Who Admits She Had Info on Swalwell Abuse During Chinese Spy Investigation But Didn&#8217;t Pursue It Blames&#8230; Conservative Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freporter-who-admits-she-had-info-on-swalwell-abuse-during-chinese-spy-investigation-but-didnt-pursue-it-blames-conservative-media%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2592769&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>&#8211; The piece centers on Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, a journalist who helped bring the Eric Swalwell-China spy story to light through Axios in 2020 and who became a prominent but controversial figure in the swirl of fallout around Swalwell.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; It explains that Allen-Ebrahimian was not Swalwell\u2019s victim, nor a campaign staffer or official party figure, but a reporter who initially celebrated the story she helped break and later faced intense scrutiny when she acknowledged having heard rumors but not pursuing them because they weren\u2019t on her beat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The article recounts the backlash she faced on social media after she said the rumors existed and that MeToo-style reporting on Capitol Hill wasn\u2019t within her beat, a stance that some interpreted as evasive or inconsistent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; It then covers her later defense: she argued that conservative media failed to report the story and that Fox News and others should have pursued it years earlier. The piece notes her continued public criticism of legacy outlets and her claim that conservative outlets were at fault for not breaking the story sooner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The author ultimately contends that Allen-Ebrahimian\u2019s own decisions and explanations are the core issue, framing her as a media figure who persisted in blaming others while she herself did not follow through.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The article also situates her current role as head of China investigations at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), suggesting that despite the controversy, she remains a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/secret-service-teams-up-with-blockbuster-director-for-epic-super-bowl-ad-featuring-trump-shooting-pic\/\" title=\"Secret Service Teams Up with Blockbuster Director for Epic Super Bowl Ad Featuring Trump Shooting Pic\">critically important figure<\/a> in the field, while arguing that her conduct in this episode reflects more on her own choices than on external enemies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Throughout, the piece contrasts Allen-Ebrahimian\u2019s experience with a broader pattern in which conservative media has been willing to scrutinize or advance stories that legacy outlets overlook, citing other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-will-hear-boston-marathon-bomber-execution-case\/\" title=\"Supreme Court Will Hear Boston Marathon Bomber Execution Case\">high-profile cases<\/a> to argue that the fault lies more in the author\u2019s actions than in her critics.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_3)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian has become one of the faces of the Eric Swalwell story. She&rsquo;s not particularly happy about it.<\/p>\n<p>She&rsquo;s not one of the victims, nor one of Swalwell&rsquo;s former partners. She&rsquo;s not a campaign staffer. She&rsquo;s not in the official Democratic Party apparatus, period. In fact, she started out being particularly congratulatory to herself about it.<\/p>\n<p>See, Allen-Ebrahimian is one of the reporters who broke the story for Axios, in 2020, that Swalwell had been linked with a Chinese spy who was known to sexually target California politicians for information to pass along to Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>While the reporters did not explicitly say so, the implication was that Swalwell &mdash; a candidate for president that cycle, in case you&rsquo;ve forgotten &mdash; had slept with a spy and neglected to tell us. Even though he wasn&rsquo;t married at the time, this was still compromising and damning.<\/p>\n<p>Then came the fusillade of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/late-breaking-devastating-puerto-rico-revelations-2-dem-lawmakers-surface-swalwell-sex-cancer-spreads-across-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-hbo-documentary-will-explore-woody-allen-abuse-allegations\/\" title=\"\u2018It\u2019s Just The Tip Of The Iceberg\u2019: HBO ...ary Will Explore Woody Allen Abuse Allegations\">sexual abuse allegations<\/a> against Swalwell<\/a>, who was prohibitively the frontrunner for governor among Democrats in California.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadAnyclip() { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst container=document.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!container) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=\"https:\/\/player.anyclip.com\/anyclip-widget\/lre-widget\/prod\/v1\/src\/lre.js\"; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.setAttribute(\"pubname\", \"westernjournalcom\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.setAttribute(\"widgetname\", \"001w000001jULVcAAO_M12924\");  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ append inside the container so player shows in correct spot \t\t\t\t\t\tcontainer.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadAnyclip(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #anyclipvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#anyclipvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Allen-Ebrahimian chimed in again, saying that she&rsquo;d actually heard these rumors back during the Fang Fang story, but she couldn&rsquo;t pursue it because (get this) it wasn&rsquo;t part of her beat, which was Chinese infiltration of American politicians by compromising them.<\/p>\n<p>Social media and conservative outlets pilloried her, not just because of the admission but because of the inchoate logic: Your beat was China getting compromising information on American politicians, and you had information that would gravely compromise an American politician, but you couldn&rsquo;t pursue it because that was outside of your wheelhouse?<\/p>\n<p>This was already absurd, and one did begin to feel bad about Allen-Ebrahimian; she&rsquo;d begun the story puffing out her chest a bit and ended as a figure of derision. Perhaps too much of one? No, as she amply proved late last week by saying the real reason behind the liberal media&rsquo;s failure to report the Swalwell story in a timely manner was actually &hellip; conservative media.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s a new strain of logic for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cnns-stelter-calls-swalwell-resignation-testament-power-journalism-journalists-tell-different-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legacy media failures<\/a>, I&rsquo;ll give her that much.<\/p>\n<p>Let&rsquo;s start from the beginning of the former Axios reporter&rsquo;s crash-out, which began with a now-deleted humblebrag: &ldquo;Rumors about Eric Swalwell&rsquo;s sexual misconduct have swirled in D.C. for years,&rdquo; Allen-Ebrahimian wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I first heard these rumors in 2020, in the course of my other reporting about Swalwell. I was neither a politics reporter nor a women&rsquo;s issues reporter, so I could not chase them down.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Would like an explanation as to why this was deleted. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VEfUxeh6qR\">https:\/\/t.co\/VEfUxeh6qR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xQbxohozIJ\">pic.twitter.com\/xQbxohozIJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/redsteeze\/status\/2043527050938757572?\">April 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The social media peanut gallery said, pretty much in unison, &ldquo;Wait, <em>what?<\/em>&rdquo; She promptly deleted the original post but continued to press her case in the reply thread.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I very much wanted to report it out myself. But #MeToo stories on the Hill aren&rsquo;t related to my beat, as much as I personally wish I could report them out. I passed the tip along to colleagues on the Hill beat,&rdquo; she wrote in one post.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I did not play it down. I very much wanted to report it out myself. But MeToo stories on the Hill aren&rsquo;t related to my beat, as much as I personally wish I could report them out. I passed the tip along to colleagues on the Hill beat.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bethany &#35997;&#26360;&#31310; (@BethanyAllenEbr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BethanyAllenEbr\/status\/2043529054821986687?\">April 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ll spare you from looking at a dossier&rsquo;s worth of excuses from Allen-Ebrahimian, but I shall assure you they are all as non-exculpatory as that one.<\/p>\n<p>The point is that, at present, Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian may have been one of the media villains <em>du jour<\/em>, but she has another relatively prestigious gig, as head of China investigations at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute&rsquo;s Cyber, Tech, and Security Division.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, she&rsquo;s going to get a few bad mentions in negative articles in partisan publications for a few days &mdash; what writer, at any level of media, hasn&rsquo;t received at least a bit of this? &mdash; but all she has to do is shut off notifications for a few days, chill with her family or dogs or whatever, and shut up.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s all she has to do for this to go away and for her to be remembered as one of the women who broke the story that eventually, several years down the road, helped lead to Eric Swalwell&rsquo;s demise, plus her other not-insignificant corpus of work: shut up. Just shut up. That&rsquo;s literally all you have to do. Shut up.<\/p>\n<p>We are here, obviously, to talk about the fact that Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian decided, quite unwisely, not to shut up.<\/p>\n<p>And not only that, she&rsquo;s not apologizing or brushing it off, but instead blaming other more conservative media outlets for not breaking the story she either decided not to break or was kept from breaking.<\/p>\n<p>Posting a screenshot of an article from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/conservative-media-outlets-deal-fatal-blow-state-departments-censorship-historic-settlement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Federalist<\/a> criticizing the establishment media for congratulating itself on a story its own people admit they sat on, Allen-Ebrahimian asked, &ldquo;Fox News has one of the biggest and best-funded newsrooms in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Why didn&rsquo;t Fox News publish an investigation into Swalwell&rsquo;s sexual misconduct? Why didn&rsquo;t Breitbart? Newsmax? The Daily Caller? And why is no one in the right-wing media ecosystem asking these questions?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Fox News has one of the biggest and best-funded newsrooms in the US. Why didn&rsquo;t Fox News publish an investigation into Swalwell&rsquo;s sexual misconduct?<\/p>\n<p>Why didn&rsquo;t Breitbart? Newsmax? The Daily Caller?<\/p>\n<p>And why is no one in the right-wing media ecosystem asking these questions? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0tyVRLwZMt\">pic.twitter.com\/0tyVRLwZMt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bethany &#35997;&#26360;&#31310; (@BethanyAllenEbr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BethanyAllenEbr\/status\/2044622728821608667?\">April 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that, after virtually everyone in the mainstream media forgot about Allen-Ebrahimian&rsquo;s reporting because it was convenient to prop up Swalwell as a credible figure, these were the outlets still calling attention to it. Also, going from &ldquo;I almost had a scoop but had to sit on it&rdquo; to &ldquo;well, why didn&rsquo;t they have a scoop, huh? What about <em>them<\/em>?&rdquo; is quite the <em>volte-face<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And nevertheless, she persisted: &ldquo;What we&rsquo;ve witnessed here is a years-long, catastrophic failure of conservative media to demonstrate to Democratic staffers that they are fair and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whca-cared-more-about-protecting-biden-than-defending-1a\/\" title=\"WHCA Cared More About Protecting Biden Than Defending 1A\">professional news outlets<\/a> who can be trusted with sensitive information,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;Fox News should have been all over Swalwell&rsquo;s sexual misconduct years ago. It wasn&rsquo;t.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">What we&rsquo;ve witnessed here is a years-long, catastrophic failure of conservative media to demonstrate to Democratic staffers that they are fair and professional news outlets who can be trusted with sensitive information.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News should have been all over Swalwell&rsquo;s sexual&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NyCU8oBCnt\">https:\/\/t.co\/NyCU8oBCnt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bethany &#35997;&#26360;&#31310; (@BethanyAllenEbr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BethanyAllenEbr\/status\/2045004721761759579?\">April 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Yes, conservative media has shown it cannot be &ldquo;fair and professional news outlets who can be trusted with sensitive information.&rdquo; Unlike Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, who did not pursue a story about Eric Swalwell being a sexual abuser, thus letting him continue to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >allegedly sexually abuse women<\/a> for years.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s also worth noting that, in addition to being self-parodying, it&rsquo;s also false.<\/p>\n<p>From confirming the original allegations against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/anthony-weiner-humiliated-loses-comeback-race-man-name-infamous-pedophile-rapist\/\">Anthony Weiner<\/a> in his first sexting scandal, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/second-body-found-in-home-of-democratic-megadonor-ed-buck-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ensuring that people<\/a> started paying attention to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/prosecutors-allege-major-democrat-donor-ed-buck-least-10-victims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ed Buck<\/a> &mdash; the California Democratic politician and donor who had the sick fetish of overdosing male prostitutes on methamphetamine &mdash; to the first reports on the sordid contents of Hunter Biden&rsquo;s laptop, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-dems-lose-mtg-begins-displaying-images-hunter-bidens-laptop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">which he preys upon sexually vulnerable prostitutes<\/a> on video for his own weird gratification, conservative media has a long history of stepping in where legacy outlets won&rsquo;t.<\/p>\n<p>That they didn&rsquo;t on the Eric Swalwell story doesn&rsquo;t excuse Allen-Ebrahimian&rsquo;s inability to follow through on her own.<\/p>\n<p>The fault, dear Bethany, lies not in your sparring partners, but in yourself.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Early on, she seemed pleased with the attention she received and implied Swalwell\u2019s alleged relationship with a spy was suggested by the reporting. Then Swalwell faced a wave of sexual-abuse accusations, shifting the focus away from her scoop. Allen-Ebrahimian later admitted she\u2019d heard rumors about Swalwell in 2020 but didn\u2019t pursue them because the story wasn\u2019t on her beat-Chinese infiltration of American politicians. Conservatives mocked her for claiming she couldn\u2019t chase the story due to beat constraints, and she faced public ridicule as a result.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, she argued that conservative media were to blame for the delays in reporting, posting criticisms of Fox News, Breitbart, Newsmax, and similar outlets for not pursuing the story. She remains in a prominent role, now heading China investigations at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute\u2019s Cyber, Tech, and Security Division. The piece suggests this should be a moment to step back rather than double down, noting that her continued commentary hinges on her identity in the story she didn\u2019t fully pursue.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the text contends that while conservative outlets have a history of breaking or highlighting sensitive stories, Allen-Ebrahimian\u2019s own failure to pursue the Swalwell tip-despite having the information-undercuts her credibility, and the blame, in the author\u2019s view, lies with her own actions rather than with others<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2592770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Michael-Featured-Image-946.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[78138,5046,6741],"class_list":["post-2592769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-alleged-abuse","tag-reporter","tag-swalwell"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Michael-Featured-Image-946.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2592769"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2592773,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592769\/revisions\/2592773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2592770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2592769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2592769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2592769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}