Response to Robert Thomas’ Response

Editor:

Yes, you thought I was gone, but with your permission, I was going to forgo any additional response to Robert Thomas’ letter of September 7, 2022; however, his last sentence (The incident was a failure of intelligence, not Swalwell) is absurd and needs critical correction. Any person working on a team shares any blame for non-performance. Ergo, Swalwell cannot receive absolution from Robert or anyone else for intelligence failures that could undermine national security. Swalwell is a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and we simply cannot have naive people working in “intelligence”.

Robert also writes “Intelligence agencies do not investigate someone unless they do something suspicious”. False. Robert obviously has never held a government clearance. Finally (yeah! – at last). Robert, you write your Forum letters as if you had personal interactions to assert the behavior of Ms. Fang and Swalwell. I would wager you had no real-time contact with the episodes of Ms. Fang and Swalwell, so your report of Swalwell actions with respect to Ms. Fang is simply conjecture. Please do not promote your conjectures as fact.

Now, I have left the building.

–Conrad Wilgus, Castro Valley