The House Intelligence Committee will vote this week on the...
The House Intelligence Committee will vote this week on the panel’s October report on security concerns with the Chinese-based telecom equipment manufacturers, Huawei and ZTE. The vote will take place at 10 a.m. on Thursday in Room 304 House Visitor…
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Center and is not open to the public or the press. The report strongly recommended that the U.S. government and American companies refrain from doing business with Huawei and ZTE because of what it said were the long-term security risks associated with the companies (CD Oct 10 p3). A committee aide said the vote is intended to submit the report to the committee record. The report is closed to reporters and the public because it contains a classified annex with additional evidence from the investigation, he said. The staffer said the committee is unlikely to reopen the investigation until next year. Huawei spokesman Bill Plummer said the company hopes the committee reviews the “facts and the wealth of information that Huawei provided over the eleven month-long investigation and revise its report accordingly, including, for instance, by focusing on the need for real and industry-wide disciplines to address real and universal cyber vulnerabilities.” ZTE had no comment.