> the presence of hardware backdoors in the Chinese-made transformer at Sandia was confirmed by Latham Saddler (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0EawFC18MI) who was the Director of Intelligence Programs at the National Security Council during the Trump administration. Latham stated that the Chinese transformer was taken to “one of our national labs,” and something was found in the transformer: “They found hardware that was put into the transformer that had the ability for somebody in China to switch it off.” Not only has this information not been shared with US utilities, this information has not been shared with our closest allies who also have these Chinese-made transformers.