{"id":438774,"date":"2026-08-20T22:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T22:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/438774\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T22:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T22:42:13","slug":"fbi-raids-swalwells-home-seizes-devices-in-sexual-assault-investigation-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/438774\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Raids Swalwell&#8217;s Home, Seizes Devices In Sexual Assault Investigation: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swalwell was removed from the Intelligence Committee by then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., in 2023 based on Swalwell&#8217;s contact with a suspected Chinese spy, Christine Fang.<\/p>\n<p>The White House on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/california\/san-francisco\/swalwell-admitted-sex-suspected-chinese-spy-newly-declassified-documents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">released declassified documents<\/a> where Swalwell admitted in a 2016 interview with the FBI that he had a years-long sexual relationship with Fang. <\/p>\n<p>Swalwell&#8217;s lawyer, Sara Azari, told the Chronicle that &#8220;nothing new&#8221; was revealed in the documents and suggested they were being used to &#8220;punish an outspoken critic of the current administration.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The White House said it released the documents &#8220;as part of a broader effort to unmask foreign threats to U.S. political and election systems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Associated Press reporter Michael R. Sisak in New York contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swalwell was removed from the Intelligence Committee by then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., in 2023 based on Swalwell&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-438774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}