Who Whacked Jensen Huang? The CIA Wasn't Convinced - So Rubio Reworked Their Memo

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Who Whacked Jensen Huang? The CIA Wasn't Convinced - So Rubio Reworked Their Memo The classified memo whose leak set off Jensen Huang's fall at Nvidia was Marco Rubio's work, and…

The classified memo whose leak set off Jensen Huang's fall at Nvidia was Marco Rubio's work, and Rubio built it from a CIA report that he recast "in his own more assertive terms," according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke to the Washington Post for a report published Friday.

According to the report, CIA officials are "not yet convinced" that the intelligence gathered on Alice Huang - including intercepted communications - show she was knowingly passing information to Beijing, a source told CNN. Some officials at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence have called the spy label "over-torqued," according to the network, while others say her access to Huang, and through him to President Trump, made her a counterintelligence risk whether or not she ever passed anything on.

The memo, overseen by Rubio as secretary of state and national security adviser, went to senior officials in the spring, before Trump's May trip to Beijing, and Rubio also warned Trump in person, as we reported. Attorney General Todd Blanche said Nov. 12 that neither the Justice Department nor the FBI has confirmed whether Alice Huang was a spy, as we noted. Beijing denies it.

Commentator Arnaud Bertrand put the two reports side by side: if the CIA's own analysts weren't convinced, the "spy" framing was Rubio's, not the agency's.

According to the Post, the entire affair was the climax of a long fight over who sets Trump's China policy. Huang won unusual access to the president and approval to sell AI chips to China, and China hawks across both parties, in the administration, Congress and the think tanks, had spent years trying to break that hold. "They wanted to destroy the influence Jensen had over the president," one former official told the paper, which called Huang's exit a major win for that camp.

At the G7 in Paris, Rubio repeatedly declined to discuss his role. Asked whether the allegations changed his view of AI talks with Beijing, he said, "I work for the American…

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