There are more foreign spies in the United States today than ever before, a former House intelligence chairman said Wednesday.
“There are more spies in the United States today from foreign nation states that at any time in our history,” former Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., said in comments delivered at the Heritage Foundation. Rogers served in the House from 2001-15, and as chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence from 2011 until his retirement last year.
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“They’re stealing everything. If it’s not bolted down, it’s gone. And if it’s bolted down, give them about an hour. They’ll figure out how to get that, too,” he added.
Rogers said those facts had already been established within the intelligence community. “That’s what the intelligence business is designed to do … determine that we have individuals here who are engaged in espionage activities,” Rogers said. “It’s massive, it’s huge. And the numbers are overwhelming.”
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“I’m not sure we have adjusted, quite correctly, to the way we are going to respond to those activities here in the United States,” Rogers said.
