The case of Huawei Technology's takeover of server technology company 3Leaf Corporation (see: The Chinese Force Obama's Hand) gets stranger as each day passes.  It now has been revealed that Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States (CIFUS) officials only found out about Huawei's acquisition last summer when they came across a puzzling find during a routine review of Huawei, as that company is prominent on the government's radar screen.They stumbled across a Linkedln page for one of the founders of 3Leaf who was listed as a "Huawei consultant" according to the person's account. The discovery was the first indication for the Committee that Huawei had made an acquisition without informing the panel. Per a report in the Financial Times:It was especially confounding because Huawei officials had recently made assurances to the Department of Defense that it was embarking on a new era of transparency.  At the time, Huawei was pushing to win a large...(Read Full Post)