Why Did The Federal Government Hide This Report On Communist Chinese Corruption?

A top legal watchdog is going to court to find out why the federal government tried to cover up report on Communist Chinese corruption.

The non-profit public interest law firm Judicial Watch announced in a statement it “filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) for records of its preparation of a congressionally mandated report on the wealth and corrupt activities of the Chinese Communist Party (Judicial Watch Inc. v. Office of the Director of National Intelligence (No. 1:26-cv-00199)).”

“There is heavy resistance to transparency when it comes to what the Deep State knows about the Chinese Communist Party,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The long delay of this intelligence report on China’s corruption and systemic graft reflects poorly on the Biden-era intelligence community.”

Judicial Watch reports it “sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the Director of National Intelligence failed to respond to a March 7, 2025, FOIA request for:”

All records relied upon during ODNI’s preparation of its report regarding the wealth and corrupt activities of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). For purposes of clarification, the report was mandated by Sec. 6501 of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (P.L. 117-263).

All communications between ODNI personnel involved in the preparation of the report and any official or employee of the Department of State regarding the report, or its submission to Congress.

All communications between ODNI personnel involved in the preparation of the report and the Executive Office of the President regarding the report, or its submission to Congress.

The 2022 legislation mandating the report gave a deadline of December 2023.

“In June 2024 China was reported to have lobbied strongly against the report’s release. The report was not delivered until March 2025 – after Donald Trump had become president and a new director of national intelligence was in place,” Judicial Watch reports.

The report, titled “Wealth and Corrupt Activities of the Leadership of the Chinese Communist Party,” states, in part: 

Corruption is an endemic feature of and challenge for China, enabled by a political system with power highly centralized in the hands of the CCP, a CCP-centric concept of the rule of law, a lack of independent checks on public officials, and limited transparency.

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Corruption within China is primarily due to structural features that centralize power, eschew independent checks or accountability—especially at the provincial level—and produce perverse incentives for political advancement and financial enrichment.

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