Ex-Intel official slams Biden over Patriot Act renewal while continuing to approve Chinese tech licenses

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🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Former Chief of Staff for the Director of National Intelligence Dustin Carmack slams Biden administration mixed messaging on China after the administration called for the Patriot Act renewal due to the increasing China threat while continuing to approve ‘blacklisted’ Chinese companies tech licenses at record numbers. Carmack calls Biden’s China policy, ‘schizophrenic at times’. Saying that Chinese companies who are “blacklisted,” should not be finding loopholes in the federal government to be approved for tech licenses. Commenting there’s is a major disconnect, between the administration’s rhetoric and their actions, it shows you that, “maybe not for a malicious intent, but there's the bureaucratic malaise, or the institutions are not fundamentally and holistically tackling,” the China threat.

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0:00.0	Hello America and happy Wednesday one day before the start of the conservative political
0:11.3	Super Bowl known as CPAC conservative political action conference run by the American conservative
0:17.2	union yesterday.
0:18.2	You heard match lap talk about what's coming who's going to be there.
0:21.4	What are the issues?
0:22.4	What are the themes?
0:23.6	What are the dialogue that are going to happen here in Washington DC?
0:27.2	Today we're going to take you on a little bit of different journey.
0:29.6	We're going to talk a little bit about national security because there is a lot of big developments
0:34.7	going on in the world today.
0:37.0	Big revelation from the House Foreign Affairs Committee in the last 12 hours that the Biden
0:41.7	Administration through one of its Commerce Department entities approved $23 billion of licenses.
0:49.0	That means that licenses to import to foreign countries, sensitive technologies from the United
0:53.6	States.
0:54.6	$23 billion of these licenses went to companies that were on the blacklist for America, meaning
1:01.7	that do not trade list in America.
1:04.4	Not really good to have a security list if you don't use that blacklist to stop important
1:09.1	technology from going through.
1:10.6	A lot of questions about that.
1:12.6	Chairman McCall from Texas who oversees that committee had some pretty strong words about
1:17.3	it.
1:18.3	Today we're going to bring in a perfect guest to help us referee that.
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