We learned from trying to build our Embassy in Moscow, the Communists will fill it with bugs, taps, listening devices and all kinds of goodies.
There is a company that cites its success in building U.S. Government Facilities, including several FBI field offices. For our special and secure U.S. Government Facilities we need trustworthy companies that can deliver the best construction and renovation to make sure no foreign threat fills that building and network connectivity with different tricks of the trade to see, hear, and read everything going on in that facility.
It’s important that everyone, especially the key personnel in that organization are trustworthy themselves. The Insider Threat is the leading manner in which a company, organization, or government entity is penetrated. Why try a break and enter when you can have someone on the inside do the work for you?
Now why would one of the individuals of this company also be a big advocate for the EB-5 Immigration Program? Nothing necessarily wrong with being an advocate of EB-5.
The EB-5 visa provides a method of obtaining a green card for foreign nationals who invest in a "new commercial enterprise". Ok - there’s no crime in this - but the program has been fraught with fraud and abuse.
Here’s a news story from 2013 regarding concern about Molasky Group and the EB-5 Program connected to the construction of FBI Field Office San Diego. Molasky Group was sponsoring Chinese Nationals who were apparently providing finance for the construction effort.
What does this all mean?
A construction group appears to be simultaneously building sensitive Government Facilities while lobbying for EB-5 investors from China. If someone doesn’t see the Counterintelligence ramifications, I frankly don’t know what to say. It is a best practice (and likely a contract requirement) to keep foreign nationals away from, or at least properly report their involvement to the Federal program management office.
In the old days, we’d bulldoze the building as untrusted and start over.
