Chairman Rogers: China cyber espionage 'intolerable'

House Intelligence Chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI) accused China of widespread cyber economic espionage and said many U.S. firms were afraid to come forward for fear their computers would be the targets of even more attacks.

"China's economic espionage has reached an intolerable level and I believe that the United States and our allies in Europe and Asia have an obligation to confront Beijing and demand that they put a stop to this piracy," Chairman Rogers said at a committee hearing on cybersecurity. "Beijing is waging a massive trade war on us all, and we should band together to pressure them to stop," he said in some of the strongest public accusations by a U.S. official on Chinese government involvement in cyber espionage.