American consultants can still legally work for foreign intelligence agencies, while U.S. companies can sell them advanced surveillance, cyber, and artificial intelligence technology, a bipartisan group of lawmakers says.
The lawmakers noted China’s Ministry of State Security, the Chinese regime’s civilian intelligence agency, as a prime example of what current U.S. export controls fail to fully cover.
Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), and Peter Welch (D-Vt.), along with Reps. Pat Harrigan (R-N.C.), Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.), and Michael McCaul (R-Texas), called the gaps “glaring loopholes” in an Aug. 25 letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.
“Foreign intelligence agencies in many countries can still legally hire consultants in the United States and buy advanced U.S. surveillance, cyber, and artificial intelligence technology,” they wrote….