Biden Admin Knew Last Year, China Could Shut Down Our Infrastructure - And has done nothing.

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-06 15:09:47 | Updated at 2025-01-09 16:25:32 3 days ago

Biden Admin Knew Last Year, China Could Shut Down Our Infrastructure - And has done nothing.
Front Page Magazine ^ | 5 Jan, 2025 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 01/06/2025 6:47:24 AM PST by MtnClimber

The Biden administration knew how bad it was and did nothing.

Chinese hackers had gained the ability to shut down dozens of U.S. ports, power grids and other infrastructure targets at will, Jake Sullivan told telecommunications and technology executives at a secret meeting at the White House in the fall of 2023, according to people familiar with it. The attack could threaten lives, and the government needed the companies’ help to root out the intruders.

What no one at the briefing knew, including Sullivan: China’s hackers were already working their way deep inside U.S. telecom networks, too.

Did they know? Did they not know?

The bottom line is they did nothing useful. The WSJ story pretends this is a new development, but China has a long history of catastrophic hacks, and the situation has been allowed to get and worse.

The telecom hacks completely compromised our communications, still hasn’t been resolved and may never be.

Some national security officials involved in the investigation said they believe the telecom hack is so severe, and the networks so compromised, that the U.S. may never be able to say with certainty that the Chinese hackers have been fully rooted out.

Certainly not if we keep letting it happen with no consequences.

Several senior lawmakers and U.S. officials have switched from making traditional cellphone calls and texts to using encrypted apps such as Signal, for fear that China may be listening in. Federal law-enforcement officials have told state and local law enforcement to do the same. (Federal agents already use their own encrypted systems for classified work.)

So we’ve basically surrendered. But what happens if China launches a serious attack on our infrastructure?

The infrastructure hacks also alarmed officials. In April, during a five-hour session with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said China’s attacks on physical infrastructure were concerning, dangerous and escalatory, people familiar with the encounter said.

Flanked by aides at a long table with pots of tea and water, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi shrugged and called the allegations a phantom concocted by the U.S. to increase support for military spending.

In another meeting later that week, other U.S. officials presented evidence linking the intrusions to China-based IP addresses. The Chinese officials said they would look at it and get back to the Americans, but never substantively did, U.S. officials familiar with the interactions said.

This is pathetic. China knows what it’s doing and it’s laughing at us while we plead with it. The situation needs to fundamentally change because we’ve been invaded and our government is asking the invaders to stop.

TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: danielgreenfield; greenfield; sultanknish; treason

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1 posted on 01/06/2025 6:47:24 AM PST by MtnClimber

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2 posted on 01/06/2025 6:47:34 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)

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3 posted on 01/06/2025 6:48:12 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)

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He’s probably degraded, where he will be dead before 2026 I think. So, whatever mind he has left he doesn’t care.

4 posted on 01/06/2025 6:48:50 AM PST by Jonty30 (Genghis Khan did not have the most descendants. His father had more. )

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5 posted on 01/06/2025 6:54:33 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)

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Have to say, again, Biden gives good value for money when he is paid off. China has no grounds to complain.

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There are things we can do to harden infrastructure, but it’s USELESS if we don’t get their 10 million or so spies out of the country.

7 posted on 01/06/2025 6:57:02 AM PST by BobL

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This is a parting gift from Biden - “Oh by the way .....”

8 posted on 01/06/2025 7:01:50 AM PST by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)

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9 posted on 01/06/2025 7:02:45 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)

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10 posted on 01/06/2025 7:05:56 AM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (You can vote totalitarians in but you can never vote them out...)

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