<p>Five years ago, the FBI told Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) that one of her employees was working as a spy for the Chinese.</p>
<p>Not only did the spy work as Feinstein&rsquo;s driver for 20 years, but he also served as her Asian-American community liaison and as a stand-in for her at Chinese Consulate events. ;</p>
<p>Feinstein immediately fired the staffer, but did not inform the rest of her office. ;</p>
<p>According to a source cited by <em>The San Francisco Chronicle</em>, the intrigue began when the spy took a trip to Asia to visit &lsquo;family&rsquo; and made friends with an individual who continued to stay in touch. That individual had connections to the Ministry of State Security &#8211; the intelligence branch of the ;People&#8217;s Republic of China. ;</p>
<p>&ldquo;He didn&rsquo;t even know what was happening &#8211; that he was being recruited,&rdquo; said the source. &ldquo;He just thought it was some friend.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>The FBI connected Feinstein&#8217;s driver with ;Chinese spying in the Bay Area &#8211; a phenomenon that has ramped up in recent years as China seeks to steal trade secrets and technology. ;</p>
<p>Unfortunately the FBI has been unable to charge the individual with ;espionage because none of the information he shared ;was classified or top secret (as far as we know).</p>
<p>&ldquo;Think about Dianne Feinstein and what she had access to,&rdquo; says former FBI agent Jeff Harp. &ldquo;One, she had access to the Chinese community here in San Francisco; great amount of political influence. Two, correct me if I&rsquo;m wrong, Dianne Feinstein still has very close ties to the intelligence committees there in Washington, DC.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>Author&#8217;s Note: ;</strong>The &#8220;non-classified&#8221; conversations of a major political figure like Dianne Feinstein are still very sensitive. The bits and pieces that someone in this position could obtain are significant &#8211; and who knows if he was using electronic devices to record conversations and obtain even more information?</p>
<p>This is worse than it seems, and Feinstein was clueless. That is the real crime &#8211; same as Hillary Clinton and ;Debbie Wasserman-Schultz &#8211; they were all clueless and giving away the whole store because they were not paying attention.</p>