At meeting of top spies, the focus is on China, not Mueller by JennaMC_Laugh
SEA ISLAND, Ga. — On Sunday evening, as Washington eagerly awaited Attorney General William Barr’s summary of one of the most hotly debated counterintelligence and criminal investigations in recent years, some of the country’s top current and former intelligence officials gathered at a golf resort off the coast of Georgia to discuss the next major threat. But it wasn’t Russia they were most worried about.
Petraeus’s aversion to talk about the Russia investigation was echoed on the sidelines of the event. While election security and protecting the 2020 presidential election were also major themes, special counsel Robert Mueller’s name barely surfaced — a welcome relief to several top national security officials who spoke with Yahoo News.
“Most people here are career officials,” said one national security official, who asked not to be named because they weren’t authorized to speak to the press. “They’re not going to talk about that.” According to Demers, China’s public “Made in China 2025” plan is an exact roadmap for Beijing’s spies on issues ranging from space to agriculture. The Ministry of State Security, China’s civilian intelligence agency, targets key officials across industry for both economic information as well as more traditional espionage, Demers explained. While the DOJ has multiple spying cases involving former U.S.
“I believe economic security is national security,” he said. “If we don’t fix this, the existential threat is only from China.” Conrad Prince, the former deputy director of GCHQ, Britain’s signals intelligence agency, said that the U.K. “hasn’t come to a conclusion yet on Huawei” but generally feels it is “a risk-management issue” that is too complex to solve with a unilateral ban on Chinese technology.
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