House Oversight panel issues subpoena after whistleblower said DHS employees discussed serious concerns about Tim Walzs China ties in internal group chat

The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed the Department of Homeland Security on Monday following whistleblower allegations about an internal employee group chat discussing “serious concerns” about Minnesota Gov.Tim Walz’s China ties — some of which have been documented in classified files.Oversight panel Chairman James Comer revealed the internal debate on the “longstanding connection” between Walz and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials in a Monday letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, according to a copy obtained by The Post.“Specifically, through whistleblower disclosures, the Committee has learned of a non-classified, Microsoft Teams group chat among DHS employees—titled ‘NST NFT Bi-Weekly Sync’—that contains information about Governor Walz that is relevant to the Committee’s investigation,” Comer (R-Ky.) wrote.The group chat initials stand for “Nation State Threat — National Functional Team,” according to an Oversight spokesman.“The Committee has also learned that further relevant information regarding Governor Walz has been memorialized in both classified and unclassified documents in the control of DHS,” he also noted.Comer demanded all records on the internal group chat between July 1 and the present, as well as any Intelligence Information Reports or Regional Intelligence Notes between November 2023 and the present.“[I]f a state governor and major political party’s nominee for Vice President of the United States has been a witting or unwitting participant in the CCP’s efforts to weaken our nation, this would strongly suggest that there are alarming weaknesses in the federal government’s effort to defend the United States from the CCP’s political warfare that must be urgently addressed,” he told Mayorkas.The subpoena comes as officials at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence warned in a briefing earlier this month that China’s election interference efforts have been foc...