US House Democrats Probing FBI's Investigations On Suspected Chinese Espionage From Universities And Laboratories

The Hill: House Democrats launch probe into NIH and FBI suspecting Chinese Americans of espionage

A pair of House Democrats on Thursday launched an investigation into alleged efforts by the FBI and National Institutes of Health (NIH) to scrutinize ethnically Chinese scientists for potential espionage.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who chairs the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Chairwoman Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) sent letters demanding documents about the two agencies' investigations into whether Chinese Americans were working as spies on behalf of China.

While the two lawmakers acknowledged that there have been some confirmed cases of espionage, they questioned whether the focus on Chinese Americans amounted to racial profiling.

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Update: 'New Red Scare': House Democrats scrutinize FBI investigations into ethnically Chinese scientists (Washington Examiner)

WNU Editor: American lawmakers, tech companies, holders of patents/copy-writes/etc., have been screaming for years that US law-enforcement must clamp down on China's theft of American intellectual property. They are now doing it, and even FBI Director Wray has recently admitted that the FBI is currently conducting 1,000 investigations. Are they overdoing it? Maybe. Are these lawmakers justified in their probe on what the FBI is doing? Probably. But this is the price to pay if you want to be serious in stopping this theft.