{"id":542123,"date":"2021-05-26T19:05:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T23:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=542123"},"modified":"2021-05-26T19:05:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T23:05:24","slug":"senate-republicans-oppose-biden-nominee-who-worked-for-chinese-tech-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-republicans-oppose-biden-nominee-who-worked-for-chinese-tech-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Republicans Oppose Biden Nominee Who Worked For Chinese Tech Company"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fsenate-republicans-oppose-biden-nominee-who-worked-for-chinese-tech-company%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=542123&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rubio-2-scaled-e1622068311223.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Three Republican senators condemned a Biden nominee who was previously employed by a Chinese tech company that is currently sanctioned by the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate Intelligence Committee advanced the nomination of Christopher Fonzone to be general counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Wednesday. Fonzone was previously <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/23\/john-ratcliffe-maria-bartiromo-china-huawei-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">employed<\/a> as a lobbyist by Huawei, a Chinese tech company that the Federal Communications Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/10\/fcc-ajit-pai-china-huawei-national-security-threat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">considers<\/a> a threat to national security. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/01\/28\/huawei-china-trump-trade-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>(RELATED: Trump\u2019s DOJ Charges Huawei With Fraud Amid Heightened Tensions With US)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.1773399014778\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Several key legal nominations announced, including Christopher Fonzone as GC of ODNI and my law school classmate Todd Kim as AAG for ENRD. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FTSfnuYd8r\">https:\/\/t.co\/FTSfnuYd8r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Orin Kerr (@OrinKerr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OrinKerr\/status\/1371570851338883073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fonzone is currently a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sidley.com\/en\/people\/f\/fonzone-christopher-c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">partner<\/a> at Sidley Austin LLP, a law firm that Huawei first hired for lobbying in 2019. Huawei still contracts with Sidley Austin, the Washington Free Beacon <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-intel-nominee-grilled-for-huawei-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. During a confirmation hearing, Fonzone admitted to doing \u201ca very small amount of analysis\u201d for Huawei, \u201cless than 10 hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Huawei is legally <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/08\/23\/australia-bans-huawei-zte-5g\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">required<\/a> to provide information to the Chinese intelligence community, although it is technically privately owned. The company has also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/08\/14\/huawei-uganda-zambia-spying\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sent<\/a> employees to help African leaders spy on political opponents, according to the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States must take unified steps to combat the CCP, not put its employees and contractors in positions of power with access to sensitive information,\u201d Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Fonzone previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dni.gov\/index.php\/newsroom\/press-releases\/press-releases-2021\/item\/2191-dni-haines-statement-on-the-president-s-intent-to-nominate-chris-fonzone-as-odni-general-counsel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">served<\/a> as Deputy Counsel to the President and Legal Adviser to the National Security Council during the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, the Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, panned the nomination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Fonzone\u2019s work on behalf of Huawei and China\u2019s Ministry of Commerce may have been technical in nature, but it raises serious questions about his judgment and decision making, especially considering his previous national security roles in government. His evasiveness and unwillingness to answer direct questions on the real nature of the Chinese threat is disqualifying,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter Mr. Fonzone left President Obama\u2019s National Security Council, he did legal work for Huawei. He knew exactly who Huawei is and he knew that he didn\u2019t have to take their money,\u201d Republican Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse said of Fonzone\u2019s time at Sidley Austin. \u201cIn fact, today he told the committee that he had declined to work on certain cases for ethical reasons, but he didn\u2019t decline Huawei and I\u2019m not sure how on earth it\u2019s ethical to work for a company that\u2019s a key player in the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s genocide of the Uyghurs,\u201d Sasse added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Republican senators condemned a Biden nominee who was previously employed by a Chinese tech company that is currently sanctioned by the U.S.The Senate Intelligence Committee advanced the nomination of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313193,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rubio-2-scaled-e1622068311223.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Senate Republicans Oppose Biden Nominee Who Worked For Chinese Tech Company","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rubio-2-scaled-e1622068311223.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Senate Republicans Oppose Biden Nominee Who Worked For Chinese Tech Company","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542123","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=542123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}