On Friday and Tuesday, CBS Mornings Plus covered a newly revealed policy change during the Biden administration and kept in place under Team Trump that federal government workers stationed in China are barred from engaging in romantic relationships with Chinese citizens out of fear of spies engaging in honeypotting, or seducing Americans to elicit information pertinent to our national security.
Incredibly, Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and his long-rumored tryst with Chinese spy Fang Fang never came up in CBS’s nearly eight minutes (7:45) of coverage.
Friday’s mention came up during the “Caught Our Eye” segment with co-host Tony Dokoupil calling it “a sign of the — the risk of Chinese spying and the security concerns that the U.S. has about it happening,” noting the Associated Press “reports that the U.S. has banned all U.S. government…
