The draft agreement, as it was being negotiated at the time, would give government agencies like the DOJ or the DOD the authority to:

Examine TikTok’s U.S. facilities, records, equipment and servers with minimal or no notice,

Block changes to the app’s U.S. terms of service, moderation policies and privacy policy,

Veto the hiring of any executive involved in leading TikTok’s U.S. Data Security org,

Order TikTok and ByteDance to pay for and subject themselves to various audits, assessments and other reports on the security of TikTok’s U.S. functions, and,

In some circumstances, require ByteDance to temporarily stop TikTok from functioning in the United States.

The draft agreement would make TikTok’s U.S. operations subject to extensive supervision by an array of independent investigative bodies, including a third-party monitor, a third-party auditor, a cybersecurity auditor and a source code inspector. It would also force TikTok U.S. to exclude ByteDance leaders from certain security-related decision making, and instead rely on an executive security committee that would operate in secrecy from ByteDance. Members of this committee would be responsible first for protecting the national security of the United States, as defined by the Executive Branch, and only then for making the company money.

I hate Tik Tok but I hate this sort of insane Government overreach far more.

Why not just ban the method tiktoc uses to gather private information? Oh wait its because you just want control over who has that information, not to stop nefarious actors from getting it.

So reading between the lines they can already do this with all other apps, but not Tiktok, the chinese government does it for tiktok.

Couldn't he have gotten an in through Hunter's contacts?