Briefing with Senator Mark Warner

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The APA Justice Task Force submitted the following statement for a briefing with Senator Mark Warner and his staff on August 6, 2020.

2020/08/05: Update on Racial Profiling and Related Issues 

Senator Warner Letter to FBI Director Wray

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On April 2, 2020, Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), Vice Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, wrote a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray and urged him to "hold biannual meetings with national leaders of Chinese American and Asian American organizations regarding issues of importance to those communities as you work to counter the foreign intelligence threat from the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC)."

On May 29, 2020, the Assistant Director of the FBI Office of Congressional Affairs replied with this letter to Senator Warner.

A previous meeting between the Assistant Director of the Counterintelligence Division and Asian American leaders was cited as productive in the letter.  Background and context of the December 7, 2018 meeting is available here. 

CAPAC Meeting

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On January 15, 2020, the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus chaired by Rep. Judy Chu convened a briefing session to update the current work on the profiling of Chinese Americans.  As facilitator for APA Justice, Jeremy Wu provided a two-page handout and read a prepared statement during the briefing. 

FBI Meeting

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On December 7, 2018, a group of community leaders met with a senior-level FBI official and representatives at the FBI headquarters to convey concerns raised within the Chinese American community about the role of bias in its investigations, among other issues.  A public statement about the meeting is here: English | 中文 . 

Each of the five community leaders brought his/her talking materials to the meeting with the FBI official and representatives:
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• Aryani Ong, community advocate

• Robert Gee, Vice Chair, Washington DC Region, Committee of 100: Letter to FBI Official

• Andrew Kim, Visiting Scholar, South Texas College of Law and Litigator, Greenberg Traurig: Prosecuting Chinese “Spies:” An Empirical Analysis of The Economic Espionage Act

• Steven Pei, scientist and Honorary Chair of United Chinese Americans: FBI Meeting Talking Points

• Jeremy Wu, retired government official: FBI Meeting Talking Points

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Additional Information

• 2022/05/31 APA Justice: Summary Statement for The Town Hall Meeting Hosted by The FBI San Francisco Field Office 

• 2022/05/31 APA Justice: Statement for The Town Hall Meeting 
  Hosted by The FBI San Francisco Field Office

• 2018/12/23 Houston Chronicle: Houston Asians meet with D.C. FBI about economic espionage, racial bias

• 2018/10/12 Six Hues: Summary: Panel Addresses Concerns that Chinese Americans Are Targeted by Law Enforcement as U.S.-China Tensions Flare

• 2018/09/22 Houston Chronicle: Houstonians respond to Asian-Americans being increasingly targeted in economic espionage cases

• 2018/09/22 Community Educational Forum: A Dialogue with the FBI and Legal Experts: The Impact of Espionage Investigations on the Asian American Community

• 2018/08/26 CBS 60 Minutes: U.S. fight against Chinese espionage ensnares innocent Americans

• 2018/08/08 Houston Chronicle: FBI warns Texas academic and medical leaders of ‘classified’ security threats

• 2018/05/17 New York Times: ​Cleared of Spying for China, She Still Doesn’t Have Her Job Back

• 2018/05/05 South China Morning Post: Spying charges against Chinese-American scientists spark fears of a witch hunt​

• 2018/03/01 Community Organizations: Joint letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray

• 2017/05/10 New York Times: Former Espionage Suspect Sues, Accusing F.B.I. of Falsifying Evidence

• 2015/09/15 New York Times: ​The Rush to Find China’s Moles