An Obama-era cybersecurity official who became a paid advocate for Huawei spoke at an event hosted by the Association for the U.S. Army (AUSA) in October.
Tony Scott, who served as chief information officer in the Obama administration, appeared on a panel alongside top Army officers and Senator Mike Rounds (R., S.D.), and gave a separate keynote address at the conference. The episode demonstrates the degree to which Chinese tech companies deemed a threat to national security by top U.S. officials have entrenched themselves in powerful political and defense-oriented circles — and the difficulty of preventing the people affiliated with those companies from influencing sensitive national-security decisions.
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