科默要求美国国土安全部提供与民主党的副总统候选人、明尼苏达州州长蒂姆·沃尔茨与中国共产党间潜在联系相关的文件记录。
具体包括：
– 智能报告
– 文件
– 通信
这些文件涉及的日期从2024年7月1日到现在的所有时间，以及任何包含或关联于沃尔茨、他的州政府办公室或是其工作人员信息的上传或嵌入附件和文档。
科默还要求提供与沃尔茨有关的所有情报信息报告及区域情报笔记，覆盖时间段为从2023年11月到当前。
此前，据匿名举报，国土安全部内部的一个名为“NST NFT Bi-Weekly Sync”的非机密微软团队群聊中包含有关于沃尔茨的资料。该群聊的内容与调查相关，并且已了解到更多关于沃尔茨的详细信息被记录在国政府控制下的机密或非机密文件里。
根据科默的表述，调查主要关注两点：一是沃尔茨与中国实体的合作，使其对中国共产党“精英俘获”策略易感，后者试图拉拢政界、文化界和学术界的顶级人物为中共的利益服务；二是关于沃尔茨个人背景和中国行程的历史记录。这都引发了对国家安全部门是否充分应对中共政治战的质疑。
科默指出，在共和党和民主党都努力对抗中国的“非传统战争”之际，沃尔茨持续着与一些令人担忧的实体和个人的合作。
此外，去年3月，沃尔茨曾会面了中国驻美总领事赵健（Zhao Jian），讨论中美关系和地方合作。科默表示，对中共的调查始于沃尔茨成为民主党副总统候选人之前，并旨在理解中共渗透与影响力的范围以及制定应对策略以防止精英俘获式的政治战争。
在上述背景下，科默认为，如果一个州长，尤其是被提名竞选美国副总统的人若与中国共产党之间存在合作，表明了美国联邦政府对抗中共政治战的防御机制存在严重的缺陷和薄弱点。因此，有必要紧急解决这一问题，并考虑提出立法改革方案以增强抵御能力。
新闻来源：www.foxnews.com
原文地址：Comer subpoenas DHS for records relating to Walz’s alleged ties to Chinese Communist Party
新闻日期：2024-09-30
原文摘要：
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer subpoenaed the Department of Homeland Security for records related to Democratic vice presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz’s alleged connections to the Chinese Communist Party, Fox News Digital has learned. Comer, R-Ky., who announced last month that his committee launched an investigation into those alleged "longstanding" ties, is seeking records including intelligence reports, documents, and communications from Homeland Security. Fox News Digital reviewed the subpoena, directed to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. HOUSE OVERSIGHT INVESTIGATING WALZ OVER 'LONGSTANDING CONNECTIONS' TO CHINA The subpoena comes after a whistleblower notified the committee of the existence of a non-classified, Microsoft Teams group chat among DHS employees, as well as additional intelligence reports, that allegedly contain information regarding Walz’s alleged connections to the CCP. "The committee has recently received whistleblower disclosures informing the Committee of serious concern among Department of Homeland Security personnel regarding a longstanding connection between the CCP and Minnesota Governor Timothy James Walz," Comer wrote in the subpoena cover letter to Mayorkas. The non-classified Microsoft Teams group chat is titled "NST NFT Bi-Weekly Sync," and allegedly contains information relevant to Comer’s probe. House Oversight Committee officials told Fox News Digital that information regarding Walz and China have been memorialized in both classified and unclassified documents under the control of DHS. "Specifically, through whistleblower disclosures, the Committee has learned of a non-classified, Microsoft Teams group chat among DHS employees—titled ‘NST NFT Bi-Weekly Sync’—that contains information about Governor Walz that is relevant to the Committee’s investigation," Comer wrote. "The Committee has also learned that further relevant information regarding Governor Walz has been memorialized in both classified and unclassified documents in the control of DHS." Comer is subpoenaing Mayorkas for all documents and communications in the Microsoft Teams group chat from July 1, 2024, to present, as well as any uploaded or embedded attachments and documents referring to or relating to Walz or his gubernatorial office or staff. TIM WALZ WOULDN'T CALL FOR TIKTOK BAN ON GOVERNMENT DEVICES EVEN THOUGH OVER 75% OF OTHER STATES DID Comer is also subpoenaing all intelligence information reports and regional intelligence notes from November 2023 to present related to Walz. Comer, last month, revealed that Walz has "engaged and partnered with" Chinese entities, making him "susceptible" to the CCP’s strategy of "elite capture," which seeks to co-opt influential figures in elite political, cultural and academic circles to "influence the United States to the benefit of the communist regime and the detriment of Americans." Comer has pointed to reports that Walz, while working as a teacher in the 1990s, organized a trip to China for Alliance High School students. The costs were reportedly "paid by the Chinese government." Comer is investigating Walz’s 1994-created private company named "Educational Travel Adventures, Inc.," which coordinated annual student trips to China until 2003 and was led by Walz. The company reportedly "dissolved four days after he took congressional office in 2007." Comer said Walz has traveled to China an estimated "30 times." "In its investigation, the Committee has highlighted the importance of U.S. officials being cognizant of CCP political and psychological warfare efforts that seek to threaten national security," Comer said last month. Comer then pointed to Walz’s time in Congress, noting he served as a fellow at the Macau Polytechnic University — a Chinese institution that characterizes itself as having a "long-held devotion to and love for the motherland." "At the time he disclosed serving as a Macau fellow, Mr. Walz also had significant credit card debt," Comer said last month upon launching the investigation, noting that in 2019, Walz headlined the 27th National Convention for the U.S. China Peoples Friendship Association in Minnesota. "Governor Walz spoke alongside the president of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, which, a year later, the Department of State exposed as ‘a Beijing-based organization tasked with co-opting subnational governments,’ including efforts to ‘directly and malignly influence state and local leaders to promote the PRC’s global agenda,’" Comer said. WALZ APPOINTEE WITH APPARENT CCP TIES COULD EXPOSE POTENTIAL VEEP'S NATIONAL SECURITY WEAKNESS, LAWMAKER SAYS Comer said Walz himself has "admitted that he does not ‘fall into the category that China necessarily needs to be an adversarial relationship.’" "Despite bipartisan efforts to identify and defeat CCP unrestricted warfare against America, Governor Walz continues problematic engagement with concerning entities and individuals," Comer wrote. Comer also pointed to a March 2024 meeting Walz had with Consul General Zhao Jian to discuss "China-U.S. relations and sub-national cooperation." Comer, in his letter to Mayorkas Monday, said his committee's investigation of the CCP began long before Walz became the Democratic vice presidential nominee, and said it is focused on understanding "the extent of the CCP’s infiltration and influence campaign and to identify legislative reforms to combat CCP political warfare targeting prominent Americans for elite capture." "In particular, if a state governor and major political party’s nominee for Vice President of the United States has been a witting or unwitting participant in the CCP’s efforts to weaken our nation, this would strongly suggest that there are alarming weaknesses in the federal government’s effort to defend the United States from the CCP’s political warfare that must be urgently addressed," Comer wrote. "Along those lines, the Committee is currently considering legislative solutions to ameliorate deficiencies it already has identified among government agencies’ strategies to combat CCP political warfare."
