Kash Patel: “In this calendar year alone, as I was mentioning, our…”

“What actions are you taking as we see repeated stories of Chinese nationals doing this in the United States? So just that, sir. In this calendar year alone, as I was mentioning, our counterintelligence operations and cases brought against the Chinese are up by, I think, something like 40%. And specifically the cases in Michigan show two threat streams, not just against our agricultural industry, which is a threat to national security, but they were also bringing in chemical agents and mushrooms.” (03:07–03:17)

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