Newly obtained documents by Judicial Watch from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and FBI reveal a disturbing and deliberate cover-up by the Biden administration of U.S. counterintelligence concerns regarding Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and his deep ties to Communist China.
The 47-page document dump, obtained through a March 2025 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, exposes that federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies flagged Walz as a major concern, and yet those warnings were hidden from the public just as he was being handpicked by the Biden-Harris campaign to join the 2024 ticket.
According to emails and chat logs from DHS’s “Nation-State Threat Bi-Weekly Sync” group, federal agents openly discussed how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had cultivated Walz as a long-term asset and saw his selection as Vice President as a major win for Beijing.
According to Judicial Watch:
A Homeland Security official whose name is redacted states: Walt’s got the Vp. You all have no idea how these feeds into what prc [People’s Republic of China] has been doing here with him and local gov. It’s seriously a line of the intel. Target someone who is perceived they can get to DC
Another official responds: “this speaks too to the rin [raw intelligence] you reviewed for us”.
A participant adds: “the perception narrative that has been pushed with one of the local ngos [non-governmental organizations] had direct ties to the former Gov here in Nevada. FBI has lead on a couple of things the only issue is being in the 9th circuit.”
A participant states: “Good to know and yes there involvement with HSI [Homeland Security Investigations] and fbi on things here”.
Another adds: “If anyone has interest I can give provide context in a classified setting.”
An official noted: “But this has more of strategic impact then obviously the general public knows”.
A day later, a BBC article reporting on Chinese internet users celebrating Walz’s past ties to China—specifically his time teaching in Guangdong in 1989, the year of the Tiananmen Square massacre—was shared in the DHS chat.
The article states that Walz “spent a year in the south-eastern province of Guandong in 1989 – a topic that was trending on Weibo with 12 million views.”
“The fact that it happened in 1989 – the year of the Tiananmen Square massacre – was not lost on those commenting on Chinese social media,” the article adds.
A participant in the August 7, 2024, group chat with a name states: “China is happy”
Another noted: “you need components”
Someone adds: “and CIFTs [Counterintelligence Task Force] too”
A group chat participant states: “with FBI mission in the CI [counterintelligence] field i believe they need to get included….”
Another clarifies: “CITF [corrects the previous acronym above]”
A group chat participant adds: “I think this conversation is FOIA-able…”
A participant states: “makes a great point about CITF coordination, I will state though that folks need to be cognizant of who the primary players even with FBI being the executive agency for CITF. ie dealing with SAPs [Special Access Programs] here so CI depends on what the problem set is and who will take point”
Despite the growing alarm from multiple intelligence branches, including the FBI, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and the Counterintelligence Task Force (CITF), top Biden officials appeared more concerned with optics than national security.
At least one official hinted at the explosive nature of the findings, writing, “If anyone has interest, I can provide context in a classified setting.” Another added, “This has more of a strategic impact than the general public knows.”
A participant in the DHS chat warned that their ongoing conversation about Walz and China was “FOIA-able,” acknowledging the legal vulnerability of their cover-up as the administration continued pushing Walz toward national prominence.
BREAKING: New FBI and DHS documents uncovered by Judicial Watch show the Biden administration covered up U.S. counterintelligence concerns about Tim Walz’s connections to Communist China. “This is a major scandal,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said.https://t.co/ESrDbKRcst
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) August 4, 2025
House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) revealed last October that a whistleblower within Homeland Security warned his committee that Walz was “a target of the Chinese Communist Party as someone they can get to D.C.”
The whistleblower also revealed that DHS’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) and HSI had actively investigated the CCP’s influence operations involving Walz and the state of Minnesota.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Representative Jim Banks (R-IN) has called on Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to launch an immediate investigation into Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s repeated visits to China during his tenure with the Nebraska and Minnesota National Guards.
Banks’ letter to the Pentagon raises serious concerns about whether Walz, a former senior enlisted service member, properly reported his frequent foreign travels, potentially putting national security at risk.
Walz, who served in the National Guard for nearly 24 years, reportedly made nearly 30 trips to China between 1989 and 2005, many of which took place while he held a security clearance as part of his duties.
“He and his wife also organized trips to China from 1994 to 2003 at least annually. During this whole period, Walz remained a service member in either the Nebraska or Minnesota National Guards and presumably held a clearance for much or all of this time. Walz claimed in 2016 that he had traveled to China nearly 30 times; it is likely that at least a dozen of these trips occurred while he was a guardsman,” according to the letter.
“The CCP can use this optimism to exploit naïve foreign visitors, particularly visitors who are military servicemembers. Walz bragged after one trip to China that “they gave me more gifts than I could bring home” and that “I will never be treated that well again.””
“Clearance holders often require prior approval and threat briefings for foreign travel to prepare them for the risks of hostile foreign intelligence activity,” said Banks.
“These intelligence threat concerns are far greater when a security clearance holder travels to an adversary nation like the People’s Republic of China, especially when that clearance holder travels there on dozens of occasions. Clearance holders who return from foreign travel are also required to complete debriefing questionnaires for their security office, detailing their trip and reporting any potentially suspicious interactions that occurred during their travels.”
Banks also criticized Walz for his dismissive attitude toward the U.S.-China relationship, quoting the governor’s 2016 statement in which he claimed that the U.S. and China did not have an “adversarial relationship” and that there were “many areas of cooperation” between the two countries.
“Given Walz’s history of pro-China positions and his already irresponsible personal decision to repeatedly travel to an adversary nation while holding a clearance, the most plausible explanation for this lapse in security is that Waltz may have failed or refused to comply with Department of Defense foreign travel reporting requirements,” Banks wrote in the letter.
“If Walz did fail or refuse to report foreign travel to an adversary nation to his superiors, the Department of Defense must investigate this reckless disregard for our national security and set the public record straight about this security failure.”
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