Follow-Up: Hillary Clinton Faults Officials for Not Warning Jensen Huang: If They Knew He Was a Spy Operation's Target, They Owed Him a Warning

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discussed the case of former Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang on the November 11 episode of her podcast High Stakes with HRC, criticising U.S. officials for never giving Huang a counterintelligence 'defensive briefing.' If the government knows an American citizen is the target of an espionage operation and has reason to believe he does not know it, she said, 'you owe it to him to tell him. They didn't tell him.'

Speaking with co-host Kara Swisher, Clinton said standard counterintelligence practice is to formally warn a citizen whom agencies have determined to be the unwitting target of a foreign 'honeypot' operation. She noted that she herself received a defensive briefing about Russian interference while running for president, and that Donald Trump received one as well.

As described on the programme, U.S. officials had concluded as early as 2025 that Alice Huang, an executive at Singapore data-centre firm Megaspeed who was in contact with Jensen Huang, was linked to Chinese intelligence work, and that she used the relationship to arrange roughly $7.5 billion of Nvidia chip shipments through shell companies. Those claims come from earlier media reporting on U.S. intelligence assessments; neither Alice Huang nor Megaspeed has been charged, and there is still no public conclusion on what, if anything, passed between her and Jensen Huang. As GSM has previously reported, Nvidia has rejected the 'Chinese spy approached Huang' account, saying the contacts were limited to ordinary business information.

Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia's president, chief executive and director on November 11. On November 12, Attorney General Blanche said the Justice Department had reached no conclusion on whether Alice Huang is a spy, and Trump said the same day that he did not know whether that had been determined. China's foreign ministry has said it is not aware of the matter and urged the U.S. side to stop fabricating spy narratives.

Related: Jensen Huang Resigns as NVIDIA CEO, Effective Immediately: CFO Colette Kress Named Interim CEO as Board Launches Search

Related: Follow-Up: Attorney General Blanche Says the Justice Department Has Reached No Conclusion on Whether Alice Huang Is a Spy; Trump Says the Same Day It May Not Have Been Determined

(Source: High Stakes with HRC podcast)

Source: High Stakes with HRC podcast

Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)

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