FBI Director Deflects Questions on China Tampering With Server Chips
- Bureau chief says policy doesn’t permit confirming or denying
- Senate chairman says it seems like ‘pretty sound reporting’
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FBI Director Christopher Wray deflected questions from a Republican senator about a Bloomberg Businessweek report that China’s intelligence services used subcontractors to plant malicious chips in servers bound for major U.S. companies, including Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc.
“We have very specific policy that applies to us as law enforcement agencies to neither confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation,” Wray told the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday. “I do want to be careful that my comment not be construed as inferring, or implying I should say, that there is an investigation.”