Driving Miss Dianne: Senator Feinstein employed Chinese spy for 20 years

Buried deep in a recent Politico story about alleged Russian spying in Silicon Valley was the revelation that a long-time staffer at Feinstein’s California office had been passing information to Chinese intelligence.

Citing “four former intelligence officials,” Politico identified the spy only as a staffer who was “a liaison to the local Chinese community” and reported to the Chinese Ministry of State Security in the 2000s. No charges were ever filed against him. One former intelligence official speculated that this was because he passed along political intelligence and not classified information, which the California staff didn’t have access to anyway, per Feinstein’s office.