{"id":570885,"date":"2021-06-22T17:06:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T21:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=570885"},"modified":"2021-06-22T17:06:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T21:06:43","slug":"senate-confirms-huawei-linked-lobbyist-to-intel-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-confirms-huawei-linked-lobbyist-to-intel-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Confirms Huawei-Linked Lobbyist to Intel Post"},"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\">14<\/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-confirms-huawei-linked-lobbyist-to-intel-post%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=570885&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 readability=\"31.184675834971\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Republicans respond with legislation to prevent federal officials from working with Chinese regime-linked companies<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3904.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3903.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-908848584-300x186.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-908848584-1024x634.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-908848584-768x476.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-908848584-1536x952.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-908848584-2048x1269.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-908848584-1400x867.jpeg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\"  style=\"display:none\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tTOPSHOT &#8211; The US Capitol is seen in Washington, DC on January 22, 2018 after the US Senate reached a deal to reopen the federal government, with Democrats accepting a compromise spending bill. \/ AFP PHOTO \/ MANDEL NGAN        (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN\/AFP via Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/jack-beyrer\/\" title=\"Posts by Jack Beyrer\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Jack Beyrer<\/a> \u2022 June 22, 2021 5:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"66.528287841191\">\n<p><span>The Senate confirmed a nominee tied to Chinese tech giant Huawei to an intelligence post, prompting Republicans to introduce a bill barring outgoing government officials from working with some state-owned Chinese companies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After the Senate confirmed Chris Fonzone as general counsel for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Tuesday, Sen. Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) introduced a bill that would forbid outgoing presidential appointees from working with companies sanctioned for their ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Fonzone, a former Obama administration aide who passed Senate scrutiny in a 55-45 vote, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-intel-nominee-grilled-for-huawei-work\/\"><span>admitted<\/span><\/a><span> to lobbying on behalf of Huawei.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sasse said his measure would close the &#8220;revolving door&#8221; between the U.S. government and the CCP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The last thing we need is a revolving door between the United States Federal Government and the Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s tech puppets,&#8221; Sasse said. &#8220;Mr. Fonzone showed extremely poor judgement when he did work for Huawei after he left President Obama&#8217;s National Security Council. Mr. Fonzone is not going to be the last nominee who will leave a national security appointment to go work for a CCP national champion and then try to come back to government service\u2026. We need to make sure we bolt this revolving door shut before more public servants make a quick buck working with the Chinese Communist Party.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span>In 2019, Huawei hired Fonzone\u2019s firm, Sidley Austin LLP, to assist in navigating the Trump administration&#8217;s crackdown on the company for its ties to the Chinese regime and military. In June 2020 the Pentagon <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-china-military-exclusive\/exclusive-trump-administration-labels-huawei-hikvision-as-backed-by-chinese-military-document-idUSKBN23V309\"><span>determined<\/span><\/a><span> that Huawei is primarily backed by the Chinese military.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Several appointees from the Biden administration\u2019s foreign policy team have ties to Chinese business. The <em>Washington <\/em><\/span><i><span>Free Beacon<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/biden-connected-lobbying-outfit-teams-up-with-leading-chinese-law-firm\/\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span> in June that the Biden administration took on more than 10 staffers from an advisory firm, Albright Stonebridge Group, that&#8217;s now partnered with China&#8217;s largest law firm.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Republicans respond with legislation to prevent federal officials from working with Chinese regime-linked companies  TOPSHOT &#8211; The US Capitol is seen in Washington, DC &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2281021,"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\/04\/fb_image-3904.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Senate Confirms Huawei-Linked Lobbyist to Intel Post","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3904.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Senate Confirms Huawei-Linked Lobbyist to Intel Post","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570885","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}