Lake: US Worried about Chinese Telecom Spying
Eli Lake at the Washington Times reports:
U.S. intelligence and security agencies are warning Congress and the telecommunications industry that an American company's plan to use Chinese components in cell-phone towers for the next generation wireless network will make communications vulnerable to electronic spying by Beijing.
Over the past four months, National Counterintelligence executive Robert Bryant has briefed the House and Senate intelligence committees with warnings about the risks of a Chinese company, Huawei Technologies, providing key components of the fourth generation, or 4G, wireless network in the United States.
Representatives from the National Security Agency (NSA) also have briefed Congress about their concerns with Huawei's bid to provide hardware and other components for the new wireless infrastructure.
"If Huawei builds the components for our cell towers in the U.S. 4G network, then every cell tower is a potential listening post for Beijing," said Edward Timperlake, the Pentagon's former director of technology assessment.
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