Security expert: Chinese Mole in Latest Blot on FBI

Former National Security Agency analyst John Schindler says the quick guilty plea from Kan Shan Chun, who leaked FBI secrets to China, suggests “the Feds don’t want a trial which would require the Bureau to explain in detail what their mole gave to Beijing.” And, he writes in the New York Observer, it’ll keep the spotlight off what “looks every bit as serious for our national security” as the case of US Navy spy Edward Lin, “given [Chun’s] position, including Top Secret access, and long length of employment.” After all, he notes, “it’s not the first time the FBI has been duped by Chinese spies.” And it’s the last thing the Bureau, “already reeling from its dismal performances in the Hillary Clinton Emailgate scandal,” needs right now.

Political analyst: Dems Are Starting to Have Doubts

Forget all the numbers, which seem to favor the Democrats. Veteran analyst Jeff Greenfield writes at Politico that if you “ask enough people close to the [Hillary Clinton] campaign” privately, you hear “a note of worry: What if, in this one unusual year, past isn’t prologue? What if the patterns don’t hold up?” And with good reason: “Every assertion about Trump during the primary battle proved wrong . . . To say the least, this record does not inspire confidence that the normal patterns will hold in a general election.” Because “every once in a long while a dormant, disengaged, alienated slice of voters discovers it had a power it never realized it had; and that realization alone becomes a significant force.”

From the right: Hillary Hasn’t Sacrificed, Either

In the wake of Khizr Khan’s speech at the Democratic convention, Clinton’s fans have taken to social media to argue that, unlike Donald Trump, she has made sacrifices — passing on high-paying jobs for a “lifetime in public service.” Nonsense, writes David French at National Review: “She’s lived the progressive dream. And she’s certainly not a ‘public servant’ — she’s a cynical, grasping and ambitious politician” whose “accomplishments are meager” and whose “one guiding star is her own self-advancement.” Go to any elite law school, he writes, “and you’ll watch students knife one another in the back for the opportunity to have half her chances. . . . Each of her jobs helped build her résumé.” But none “involved any serious sacrifice for her country.”

Urban expert: Chicago Lucky Not To Host Olympics

Good thing for the Windy City that President Obama’s personal lobbying failed to ensure its selection as host of this month’s Olympic Games. Considering how Chicago’s “woes have multiplied” since that 2009 bid, writes Steven Malanga at City Journal, “the Olympics would have been an unimaginable burden.” For one thing, then-Mayor Richard Daley hoped the games “would help revitalize Chicago’s South Side and boost tourism, but the Olympics don’t work that way anymore, if they ever did.” And Chicago, beset by massive fiscal woes, “would be facing the problem of covering costs . . . that now far exceed what the games earn.” In fact, he writes, “the Olympics have become a way for politicians to distract citizens with the promise of circuses that cost a lot of bread.”

Economist: America’s Youth Not Going Socialist

Bernie Sanders’ success among young voters notwithstanding, don’t worry that they’re going to push the Democratic Party and the country towards socialism, as disastrous as that would be. John Tamny at RealClearMarkets insists the Sanderistas don’t represent young Americans as a whole: If “twenty and thirtysomethings were truly knuckle-dragging redistributionists eager to vote slow growth through wealth confiscation,” he writes, “for-profit companies wouldn’t be so eager to win their business.” Yes, they’re frustrated, and they can’t find jobs and they’re living with their parents longer than they’d hoped. But “this just signals yet again how much they like the finer things as opposed to socialist drudgery”; in fact, they’re “poised to make a lot of money in the future necessary to support high living.”