If all this Chinese espionage, hacking and secrets theft is so widespread, how come it never came to prominence before? It's like it sprang fully formed from Zeus' forehead. If it is real the scandal is why the IC didn't sound the alarm.
Gregory (Scotland Yard detective): Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?
Holmes: To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.
Gregory: The dog did nothing in the night-time.
Holmes: That was the curious incident.
Holmes: To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.
Gregory: The dog did nothing in the night-time.
Holmes: That was the curious incident.
This never made the news till after Obama's term was over. Then the NYT reported it.
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This is why the Flynn case seems so unreal. In the face of this now-revealed Chinese threat the political system devoted its resources to investigating what was by comparison the theft of Girl Scout cookies.
Now one could take the position that the Chinese subversion threat is entirely or largely imaginary. But it's hard, given the accumulated evidence, to believe that. What it implies is very disturbing.
There is likely a massive intelligence failure about which the system is in denial.
