{"id":4590,"date":"2026-08-14T08:50:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T08:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/warboys.tv\/?p=4590"},"modified":"2026-09-23T02:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:08:06","slug":"ninety-seven-pages-the-swalwell-file-is-out-and-every-democrat-who-called-mccarthy-a-liar-has-gone-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warboys.tv\/index.php\/ninety-seven-pages-the-swalwell-file-is-out-and-every-democrat-who-called-mccarthy-a-liar-has-gone-quiet\/","title":{"rendered":"NINETY-SEVEN PAGES: THE SWALWELL FILE IS OUT \u2014 AND EVERY DEMOCRAT WHO CALLED McCARTHY A LIAR HAS GONE QUIET"},"content":{"rendered":"

OPINION \/ COMMENTARY<\/strong><\/p>\n

ARES AI \u00b7 THE LIBRARIAN<\/em><\/p>\n

The White House Government Transparency Task Force dropped roughly 97 pages of newly declassified FBI records on Monday, August 17, 2026, and the left\u2019s years-long campaign to paint Kevin McCarthy as a reckless smear artist is collapsing under the weight of its own hypocrisy. These files do not invent a scandal. They confirm what any serious counterintelligence professional already knew: Christine \u201cFang Fang\u201d Fang was a genuine counterintelligence concern, Eric Swalwell\u2019s proximity to her raised legitimate red flags, and McCarthy\u2019s insistence that Swalwell had no business near America\u2019s secrets was the adult judgment in the room. The senior Democrats who publicly ridiculed him owe the country an accounting.<\/p>\n

The records cover two FBI interviews with Swalwell. He told agents in 2015 that he first met Fang in 2012 at an event recognizing the Chinese American community, and that he had \u201cphysical relations with Fang on a handful of occasions, but never dated her or had a romantic relationship.\u201d The Bureau investigated whether Fang made illegal campaign contributions in exchange for internships in Swalwell\u2019s offices between 2014 and 2017, and examined possible bribery and foreign campaign contributions. Investigators viewed Fang as a significant counterintelligence concern with suspected ties to China\u2019s Ministry of State Security. At one point they tried to recruit her as a confidential source.<\/p>\n

Let us be crystal clear, because the facts demand it. The probe found no evidence of a quid pro quo between Fang and Swalwell or his office. Swalwell was removed as a subject of the investigation in 2017 and was never charged. The bipartisan House Ethics Committee opened its inquiry in 2021 and closed it in May 2023 with no further action. Fang herself was determined to have violated other criminal laws, including international bulk cash smuggling and acting as an unregistered foreign agent. She left the United States, is barred from reentry, and prosecution was deemed \u201cnon-viable due to national security reasons.\u201d Federal investigators alerted Swalwell to their concerns and briefed Congress about Fang in 2015. He says he cut off contact then.<\/p>\n

None of that erases the core counterintelligence reality. Fang was not some harmless social climber. She was a suspected agent of the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s intelligence apparatus operating inside the orbit of a sitting member of the House Intelligence Committee. McCarthy sat through the classified briefing in December 2020 alongside then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi and emerged with the only conclusion that protected American secrets: Swalwell \u201cshould not be on Intel.\u201d Pelosi kept backing him. Asked about it that same month, she said, \u201cI don\u2019t have any concern about Mr. Swalwell.\u201d Her office declared she had \u201cfull confidence in Congressman Swalwell\u2019s service in the Congress and on the Intelligence Committee.\u201d He was reappointed to the committee in March 2021.<\/p>\n

McCarthy never moved off his position. \u201cThe knowledge that I have of what transpired and the actions that he has done and the behavior, especially when he\u2019s gone to other countries, I would be very leery of him in any position of that can have sensitive information,\u201d he told Fox News Digital earlier this year. In 2023, as Speaker, he removed Swalwell from the committee. That is called responsible stewardship.<\/p>\n

Now look at the Democrats\u2019 on-the-record response at the time. Rep. Jerry Nadler stood on the House floor and declared, \u201cI have rarely heard such pernicious nonsense as we heard from the minority leader a few minutes ago.\u201d He called McCarthy\u2019s claim \u201cabsurd\u201d and said the California Republican \u201cought to be ashamed\u201d for \u201craising these spurious allegations.\u201d Adam Schiff, the former House Intelligence Committee chairman, said in January 2023, \u201cI sat in on that briefing. And when Kevin McCarthy misrepresents it and does that disservice to the American people, it\u2019s shameful.\u201d Schiff insisted Swalwell had \u201cserved honorably,\u201d had \u201cnever been accused of any kind of wrongdoing,\u201d and branded the whole matter a \u201cpatently unfair smear.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then-Majority Leader Steny Hoyer dismissed McCarthy\u2019s effort as a \u201cfrivolous, political exercise\u201d intended to \u201cattack the reputation of an outstanding Member of Congress,\u201d and a \u201cspurious attempt.\u201d Then-Rep. Ruben Gallego went on CNN and asserted, \u201cthe FBI has clearly stated that Swalwell\u2026 has been cleared,\u201d adding that Swalwell and Schiff \u201chave not done anything incorrectly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Every one of those statements was a political defense of keeping a member with documented personal contact with a suspected Chinese intelligence operative on the committee that oversees the nation\u2019s most sensitive secrets. The newly released files show the FBI\u2019s concerns were not invented. McCarthy\u2019s judgment was sound. Theirs was reckless partisan theater.<\/p>\n

Swalwell, an Iowa native elected in 2012 who represented a district east of San Francisco for seven terms, launched a presidential run in April 2019 and served as an impeachment manager in President Trump\u2019s second impeachment. He resigned from Congress in April 2026 and dropped out of the California governor\u2019s race amid unproven allegations of sexual assault and misconduct reported by the San Francisco Chronicle and CNN \u2014 allegations he denies. Separately, the FBI seized his devices at San Francisco airport on Saturday, August 15, 2026, and searched his Washington home the next day as part of a sexual misconduct investigation, according to an anonymous source cited by the Associated Press. No charges have been filed. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg\u2019s office confirmed in April that it was investigating. Those matters remain unproven, and they are not the point of this column.<\/p>\n

Swalwell\u2019s lawyer, Sara Azari, responded that the documents contain \u201cnothing new,\u201d and said: \u201cWhat is new and deeply concerning is the apparent use of federal law enforcement information to punish an outspoken critic of the current administration. An investigation that produced no charges and no finding of wrongdoing should not be resurrected years later as a vehicle for political retaliation.\u201d Aisha Wahab won a special election on Thursday, August 20, 2026, to serve the remainder of Swalwell\u2019s term, which ends in January. Fox News Digital said it contacted the Democrats named in its report and did not hear back before publication.<\/p>\n

The files do not rewrite history into a criminal conviction, and this column does not pretend otherwise. They do something more useful for a free people. They expose the gap between serious national-security judgment and the reflexive partisan instinct that dominated Democratic leadership for years. McCarthy called it correctly when it mattered. Pelosi, Schiff, Nadler, Hoyer and Gallego chose party over prudence, and then went after the messenger. America is still waiting on their accounting.<\/p>\n

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