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For Immediate Release: |
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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Editorial: Reject the 'threat' |
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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence reportedly has concluded that the attempt by communist China's Huawei Technologies to purchase a part of the 3Com Corp. is a "threat" to U.S. national security. 3Com is a world leader in intrusion-prevention technologies used by the Department of Defense to protect computer networks from hackers. So, will the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, better known by the acronym CFIUS and led by the Treasury Department, heed the warning? When U.S. moles are paid by America's enemies for sensitive documents about national defense, they are nothing more than spies and traitors. Yet when the $2.2 billion deal giving Huawei part ownership of 3Com (and its secrets) was announced in October, the Bush administration treated it like a ho-hum international business deal. Never mind that, as The Washington Times reports, Huawei's past illicit activities included bribery, economic espionage and violating U.N. sanctions. Huawei was founded by a former officer of the People's Liberation Army, who has an affinity for limited capitalism and a man-crush on Mao, according to Rep. Thaddeus G. McCotter, R-Mich., in a Human Events commentary. And in June, the Chinese army committed its most successful cyber-warfare attack upon America's computer networks and caused their shutdown, Mr. McCotter reminds. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/archive/s_541138.html |