“The Manchurian Candidate,” a 1959 novel by Richard Condon, posits the son of a prominent American political dynasty who is captured by a Soviet Union commando unit during the Korean War and brainwashed into becoming a Soviet sleeper agent, an assassin who is triggered into action by, of all things, a card game. The goal of the Soviet Union in this exercise? To have their sleeper agent kill a presidential candidate to install his running mate, who is secretly controlled by his wife, a secret KGB operator.
It seems a bit of a far-fetched scenario. Then again, we look at all the time the Democrat’s vice presidential candidate, “China Tim” Walz, has spent in China, in no small part as a guest of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and one has to wonder.
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is asking some pointed questions about that.
When I was on a general staff, working for the Command Surgeon, U.S. Army, Europe (USAEUR), I had to have a Top Secret clearance. It was quite the process; the FBI talked to my parents, they talked to my in-laws, they talked to old friends; they even talked to my first wife, who later mentioned to me that she told them that while she and I had our differences, I was as solid an American patriot as one was likely to find. I give her full honesty points for that.
But had I had Tim Walz’s China background, I doubt I would have received my clearance. Yet Kamala Harris thinks that putting China Tim a heartbeat away from nuclear weapons release authority is just hunky-dory.
How is an enlisted soldier in a National Guard unit traveling frequently to Communist China when he did on a teacher’s pay, even if supplemented by Guard earnings? He didn’t start out as a sergeant so when he missed drills, if he did, who took notice?
What’s his rank in the Peoples Army?