We’re getting to the point where it would be easier to list the parts of the U.S. that Communist China did not hack. After hacking the Pentagon, the State Department and our entire telecommunications network, our enemies in Beijing also stopped by the Treasury Department.

The U.S. Treasury Department said a state-sponsored Chinese hacking operation was able to access third-party software to tap into desktop computers of Treasury employees in what the department is calling “a major incident.”

In a letter seen by NBC News, Aditi Hardikar, assistant secretary for management of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, wrote that the office was notified on Dec. 8 of the breach

How did Aditi Hardikar end up in her current position? Well she was the director of the LGBTQ Leadership Council for the DNC under Obama. Then headed White House LGBTQ and Asian outreach efforts, and became a manager at the Obama Foundation

“I’m going to just will it into the universe,” Aditi Hardikar told the Brown Girls Guide to Politics.

China doesn’t will things. It does things. We have DEI hires who think their identity is magic.

It would help to have competent people, not DEI hires or political appointees, in important positions.

It would also help if China were actually worried about the consequences of doing this stuff. Hopefully that changes in Jan.

Finally though we have put way too much of our government and infrastructure online. This is convenient for contractors like Amazon and Microsoft. And for Federal employees who can work from home. We need more in-person government work and a lot less online access. The entire U.S. government does not need to be a Zoom meeting. It’s time to make spies go back to stealing documents in-person: the old-fashioned way.