House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer subpoenaed the Department of Homeland Security for records related to the alleged ties to Democratic vice presidential nominee Governor Tim Walz. Chinese Communist PartyFox News Digital has learned.
Comer, R-Ky., who announced last month that his committee launched an investigation In those purported “long-term” relationships, records are being sought, including intelligence reports, documents and communications from the Department of Homeland Security.
Fox News Digital reviewed the subpoena directed at DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Governor Tim Walz speaks to supporters at the Grand Rapids Public Museum on September 12. (Detroit Free Press/Adam Vander Kooy/via USA TODAY Network Images)
Walz under House watchdog investigation over ‘long-standing connections’ with China
The subpoena comes after a whistleblower informed the committee about the existence of an unclassified, Microsoft Teams group chat between DHS employees, as well as additional intelligence reports detailing Walz’s alleged ties to the CCP. Contains information about the connection.
“The Committee is aware of recent whistleblower disclosures of serious concern among Department of Homeland Security personnel about the longstanding relationship between the CCP and Minnesota Governor Timothy James Walz,” Comer wrote in the subpoena cover letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Found.”
The unclassified Microsoft Teams group chat is titled “NST NFT Bi-Weekly Sync” and reportedly contains information related to the Comer investigation.
House Oversight Committee officials told Fox News Digital that information about Walz and China was contained in both classified and unclassified documents under the control of DHS.
“Specifically, through whistleblower disclosures, the Committee became aware of an unclassified, Microsoft Teams group chat between DHS employees – titled ‘NST NFT Bi-Weekly Sync’ – in which Governor Walz “Contains information which is relevant to the Committee’s investigation.” Comer wrote. “The Committee also finds that even more relevant information about Governor Walz has been missed in both classified and unclassified documents under the control of DHS.”
Comer is subpoenaing Mayorkas for all documents and communications in Microsoft Teams group chats from July 1, 2024, to the present, as well as any uploaded or embedded attachments and documents related to Walz or his governor’s office or staff.
Comer is also subpoenaing all intelligence reports and regional intelligence notes related to Walz from November 2023.
Comer revealed last month that Walz has “engaged and partnered” with Chinese entities, making him “vulnerable” to the CCP’s “elite capture” strategy, which seeks to “undermine elite political, cultural and Wants to associate with himself influential personalities in academic circles.” “Influence the United States to the benefit of the communist regime and to the detriment of Americans.”
Comer pointed to reports that Walz organized a trip to China for Alliance High School students while working as a teacher in the 1990s. The cost was reportedly “paid for by the Chinese government.”
House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., during a hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Comer Walz formed “Educational Travel Adventures, Inc.” in 1994. is investigating a private company named Walz, which coordinated annual student trips to China until 2003 and was headed by Walz.
The company reportedly “dissolved four days after he assumed congressional office in 2007.”
Comer said Walz has traveled to China an estimated “30 times.”
“In its investigation, the Committee highlights the importance of U.S. officials knowing about the CCP’s political and psychological warfare efforts that seek to jeopardize national security,” Comer said last month.
Comer then pointed to Walz’s time in Congress, saying he served as a fellow at Macau Polytechnic University – a Chinese institution that prides itself on “long-standing devotion and love for the motherland.” Shows as.
“Mr. Walz also had significant credit card debt at the time he disclosed serving as the Macau Fellow,” Comer said when the investigation was launched last month. In Minnesota.
“Governor Walz spoke with the chairman of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, which, a year later, the State Department exposed as a ‘Beijing-based organization’ that sought to co-opt subnational governments. The work assigned included efforts to ‘directly and maliciously influence state and local leaders to promote the PRC’s global agenda,'” Comer said.
Harris and Walz will sit down for an interview with CNN anchor Dana Bash to air Thursday evening (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Comer said Walz himself acknowledged that he “does not fall into the category that requires an essentially adversarial relationship with China.”
“Despite bipartisan efforts to identify and defeat the CCP’s unrestricted war against America, Governor Walz continues to have problematic associations with related entities and individuals,” Comer wrote.
Comer also pointed to Walz’s meeting with Consul General Zhao Jian in March 2024 to discuss “China-US relations and sub-national cooperation.”
Comer said in her letter to Mayorkas on Monday that her committee’s investigation of the CCP began long before Walz became the Democratic vice presidential nominee, adding that it was “understood to understand the extent of the CCP’s infiltration and influence campaign and to ensure legislative action.” Focused on identifying improvements.” To counter the CCP’s political warfare targeting prominent Americans to capture the elite class.”
“In particular, if the governor of a state and the major political party nominee for Vice President of the United States has been a knowing participant in the CCP’s efforts to undermine our country, it would strongly suggest that the federal government There are dangerous weaknesses in U.S. efforts to defend the United States from the CCP’s political warfare that must be urgently addressed,” Comer wrote. “Along the same lines, the Committee is currently considering legislative solutions to rectify the shortcomings already identified among government agencies’ strategies to combat CCP political warfare.”
