May 1998 Hot News
* SECRET WITNESS COULD KO PREZ ...New May 31, 1998
Most veteran Bill Clinton watchers remember seeing the videotape of his younger brother, Roger Clinton, exclaiming "Big Brother has a nose like a vacumn cleaner," referring to President Clinton's legendary cocaine habit. And more than one former Clinton associate has come forward and testified that Clinton was directly involved in the guns-and-drugs supply operation that Ollie North, Barry Seal, Dan Lasater and others set up in Arkansas to aid the Nicaraguan Contras. So far, though, prosecutors have failed to establish a direct link between Bill Clinton and the massive CIA cocaine smuggling operation that we know operated out of the Mena, Arkansas airport while Clinton was governor during the 1980's.
Soon all that may change. Last Friday's Washington Post article, "Secret Witness Could KO Prez," discusses key Arkansas financial figure William McCord. McCord took over as head of Lasater and Company after Dan Lasater pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to distribute cocaine in 1986. Then Governor Clinton pardoned close friend Lasater after he had served only six months of a much longer sentence.
Accused of financing a massive gambling operation, McCord signed a plea agreement in May, 1995 under the direction of Arkansas Federal District Judge Betsy Wright. Part of that plea agreement mandated that McCord give "truthful disclosure concerning all information and knowledge regarding any other criminal conduct in Arkansas and elsewhere by himself and any and all other persons." The plea agreement specifically "includes cooperation with the Office of the Independent Counsel (OIC) Kenneth Starr." While we do not know the full extent of McCord's testimony, Starr's office has acknowledged that McCord is "co-operating fully."
Insiders were upset that Clinton et al succeeded in getting rid of Jim McDougal before he could testify before a grand jury. Now that we know financier William McCord has joined Arkansas banker David Hale and Ex-Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker in co-operating with Starr, we have some assurance that the full extent of William Jefferson Clinton's corruption will be revealed after all.
Within a few weeks, Independent Council Starr is expected to forward a report recommending impeachment proceedings against President Clinton. For a comprehensive discussion of U.S. government complicity with Mena, Arkansas drug smuggling, gun running and money laundering, please refer to The Crimes of Mena, a groundbreaking story authored by veteran Washington Post reporters Roger Morris and Sally Denton. During 1995, Morris and Denton provided Starr with over 2,000 new documents (including Barry Seal's private papers) unearthed while researching their story.
* MONICA'S FROWNY FACE ...New May 31, 1998
Harkening back to quainter scandals, Sunday's New York Times has published a very funny column by Maureen Dowd, who analyzes the handwriting sample Monica Lewinsky submitted to the FBI last week. Lots of fun.
* THANKS OF A GRATEFUL NATION ...New May 30, 1998
We are living in a time of remarkable journalism. Last year Dan Gifford and Amy Sommer-Gifford released Waco: The Rules of Engagement, an Academy Award nominated documentary that tells the story of how the United States federal government murdered 76 Branch Davidians at Waco, Texas on April 19, 1993. Now Showtime brings us Thanks Of A Grateful Nation, a production that begins airing this Sunday, May 31. Thanks Of A Grateful Nation tells the true story of presidential Secret Service Agent, Jim Tuite, as he learns what happened to our troops during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Tuite, who is now an aide to Senator Donald Riegle, discovers that the U.S. government:
- Direct exposure of our troops to biological and chemical weapons carried by Iraqui Scud missiles.
- Our intentional bombing of the Iraqui weapons depot at Khamisiyah which held the biological and chemical weapons that we ourselves shipped to Saddam Hussein during the 1980's.
- The cocktail of drugs and vaccines that were forced on military and suppport personnel who were sent to the Persian Gulf, which may have included an experimental AIDS vaccine.
We have not previewed this Showtime production and cannot attest to its quality, however we know that it is based on four years of research and interviews with hundreds of veterans. It also includes actual interviews with veterans and their families. For more information, please visit Showtime's promotional page.
In addition please refer to our own discussion of so-called "Gulf War Syndrome," or visit Captain Joyce Riley's Gulf War Veterans Association Web site.
* GO TO CHINA ...New May 28, 1998
Joseph Farah of World Net Daily has a forwarded a practical plan for getting rid of President Clinton.
* New May 27, 1998...Rumor has it that:
Can this be true?! Well, some of these "rumors" are based on factual reporting, while others are so recent that they cannot yet be verified. We will attempt to sort fact from fiction and post an update as soon as hard evidence becomes available.
* CLINTON WILL NOT MEET WITH HONG KONG DEMOCRAT...New May 27, 1998
The Washington Post reports today that when President Clinton visits Hong Kong next month he will not meet privately with freedom fighter Martin Lee, who led his pro-democracy party in a sweep all available council seats in last Sunday's direct ballot. U.S. officials have told Lee, who personally won more votes than any other candidate, that a private meeting with him might offend the People's Republic of China. Instead Clinton has chosen to meet privately with Tung Chee-hwa, Beijing's appointed chief executive.
Martin Lee has created the first legal democratic opposition party in Communist China. In asking for a private meeting with President Clinton, Lee has urged Clinton to act consistent with his spoken support for democracy since it is Lee, not appointed representative Tung, who was "really elected by the Hong Kong people."
A private meeting with Clinton might insulate Martin Lee from Beijing reprisals. The Information Center of Human Rights and Democratic Movement in China reports that China has stepped up a crackdown on dissidents as we approach the June 4th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, where approximately 2,600 students and other demonstrators were killed by China's People's Liberation Army. Hundreds of dissidents remain jailed for their participation in the 1989 demonstration where more than one-hundred thousand Chinese citizens gathered in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, using a paper replica of our Statue of Liberty as a symbol of their quest for democracy.
A clear picture of "democracy Chinese style" is emerging from the recent Hong Kong elections. The People's Republic of China took Hong Kong in July, 1997, and its first official act was to make good on its threat to disband Hong Kong's democratically elected legislature. That legislature, which in 1994 finally secured a full measure of democracy for Hong Kong citizens, has now been replaced by a "legislative council" whose election rules guarantee central control by the Beijing's communist government.
Only 20 of the council's 60 seats can be gained by direct balloting of Hong Kong's 6,300,000 people. In time-honored communist fashion, 10 council members are chosen by a committee of eight-hundred loyalists, each handpicked by the Central Committee of the Communist Party. The other 30 council members are chosen by small groups of professionals (physicians, teachers, engineers, military), some comprised of fewer than 100 people who are also handpicked by the Central Committee. In summary, 40 of 60 seats are chosen by a tiny minority of Hong Kong citizens--at most a few thousand handpicked Beijing loyalists.
Before the May 24, 1998 general election, Beijing representatives said they would field no candidates because "we know we are going to lose."
* WILLIAM SAFIRE--A PLAN FOR PRESIDENT CLINTON'S REDEMPTION...New May 26, 1998
* CLINTON/LORAL: ANATOMY OF A MUTUALLY REWARDING RELATIONSHIP...New May 24, 1998
It's hard to know what to make of Bernard Schwartz, chief executive officer of Loral Space and Communications. In this Sunday's article in The New York Times, he says, "I can say absolutely, categorically, I have never spoken with the president about any Loral business, except on one occasion." Bernie Schwartz fervently wants us to believe that he received no special favors in return for campaign donations to President Clinton that totaled $1.3 million.
In early summer of 1994, Schwartz wrote a check for $100,000 to the Democratic National Committee. By late summer he had won a seat on a coveted trip to China led by Commerce Secretary Ron Brown. On the plane, Schwartz asked Secretary Brown for a private meeting with Zhu Gao Feng, the vice minister of China's Ministry of Post and Telecommunications. The Secretary of Commerce granted Schwartz' request--a connection that ultimately won him a deal, worth $250 million annually, to provide cellular telephone service to China. Not a bad investment.
During 1995 Bernard Schwartz gained a solid reputation as a major donor to the Democratic Party. Simultaneously, Loral lobbied hard to secure permission from the State Department to contract with China Aerospace, which is owned by China's People's Liberation Army, to launch Loral communication satellites. And President Clinton signed the necessary waivers, since such exports are prohibited under sanctions that were put in place in 1989 after the Chinese government murdered hundreds of young Beijing democracy protestors in Tiananmen Square.
Then, in early 1996, a Chinese Long March rocket carrying a Loral satellite exploded in flames. Engineers at China Aerospace scratched their heads, evenually blaming the accident on a low-tech solder connection. But by then Loral engineers had prepared a report that helped the Chinese perfect the Long March rocket's stage separation technology and missile guidance systems. As an extra bonus, it seems likely that the Chinese salvaged encryption hardware from the damaged satellite--hardware that may allow them access to encryption technology on military satellites as well.
During 1996, Schwartz gave $606,500 to the Democratic Party, and in May, 1996 he co-signed a letter to President Clinton urging the transfer of satellite export approval from the State Department to the Commerce Department. This would streamline the approval/waiver process--as the three companies put it, "one stop shopping." The other co-signers were the chairmen of Hughes Electronics Corporation and Lockheed Martin Corporation, also large contributors to the Democratic Party.
Overriding the national security concerns of his own Secretary of State, Warren Christopher, Clinton granted Bernie Schwartz his wish--he transferred satellite export approval from the State Department to the Commerce Department. With easy "one stop" approval for satellite export from the Commerce Department, and assurance that Clinton would sign the required waivers, Loral Space and Communications made tens of millions of dollars on its contracts with China Aerospace.
Meanwhile the Justice Department had been investigating the 1996 Long March rocket explosion, and they cast a suspicious eye on the report Loral had prepared to help the Chinese solve their technical problems. Officials at Justice began to make noises about prosecuting Loral for unauthorized transfer of technology to the People's Republic of China, which has resulted in the targeting of thirteen American cities by Long March intercontinental ballistic missiles, each tipped with a city-busting thermonuclear warhead.
Bernard Schwartz continued with his large donations to the Democratic Party. Then, on February 18, 1998, President Clinton signed yet another waiver for Loral to contract with China Aerospace to launch a satellite, ignoring Justice Department warnings that approving the launch could be seen as letting Loral "off the hook on criminal charges for its unauthorized assistance to China's ballistic missile program." In late February, 1998, a Chinese rocket carrying the Loral satellite took flight, severely compromising the Justice Department's case against Loral.
Yet Bernard Schwartz, the single largest donor to the Democratic Party, still manages to claim that he "never asked for special treatment." And he says it with a straight face.
* SARAH MCCLENDON, DEAN OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM...New May 23 1988
For those of you who are not already familiar with Sarah McClendon, today we would like to introduce the woman who for years has been known as "the dean of American journalism." Who else but Sarah, now in her late eighties, has the courage to stand up at White House press conferences and ask questions like:
When President Clinton was governor of Arkansas, did the Republicans force him to accept the drugs they were shipping into Mena?...or
What is President Clinton going to do to stop the drug profits that George Bush continues to funnel into the political machine?
Beginning with President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Sarah McClendon has been relentless in her pursuit of truth and her desire to inform the American people. This high journalistic standard continues to this day, as evidenced by a White House press conference that occurred just a few weeks ago:
WHITE HOUSE PRESS CONFERENCE April 30, 1998 14:46 ET
SARAH MCCLENDON: Mr. President, it looks as if you're getting ready to sign an agreement with China which would give them help and some of our secrets and not just be a friendly thing. Would you sign this without the American people having had wide discussion over this and debate on--don't you need approval of Congress? Would you just go ahead and sign this, because, after all, that's one of our greatest contemporary enemies, is China?
CLINTON: Well, Sarah, I'm not sure I know the specific issue you're referring to, but I....I would not make any agreements with China in secret and they would be subject to the knowledge of the Congress and the debate of the American people. We are trying to get to a point where we can work more closely with them and where they cooperate more closely with us so we're trying to build the same kind of world in the future, and on a very different kind of world. And I hope we'll get there.
Given the unprecedented breaches of national security that have attended Clinton's China policy, one wonders just what kind of world Mr. Clinton has in mind?
* CLINTON RELEASES DOCUMENTS ON CHINESE SATELLITE LAUNCH, DEFENDS DECISION...New May 23, 1998
As predicted, yesterday the Clinton administration released 394 documents that deal with the events surrounding President Clinton's most recent February 18, 1998 signing of a waiver to allow U.S./Chinese satellite launches. Republicans said a preliminary review raised serious questions about Clinton's decision to overrule Justice Department objections to the waiver. The full story appears in today's article in The New York Times, "Clinton Releases Documents on Chinese Satellite Launch, Defends Decision."
"There's no question there were plenty of red flags at the time," said Rep. Christopher Cox, R-Calif., who will head a House select committee examining the China issues.
On February 18, 1998, President Clinton signed a waiver allowing Loral Space and Communications to contract with China Aerospace, which is owned by the China's People's Liberation Army, to launch yet another communication satellite. Although Clinton defends his decision as based on "staff recommendations," he neglects to mention that his own Justice Department strenuously objected, referring to Loral's "unlawful" and "criminal" activity in providing assistance that allowed China to perfect its Long March intercontinental ballistic missiles. Samuel Berger, author of the memo recommending that President Clinton sign the waiver, serves at President Clinton's pleasure and has no independent standing.
The timing of the document release was criticized by many veterans of Congress, coming just prior to the Memorial Day weekend and at the beginning of a two-week break. Since the beginning of the Clinton administration, controversial announcements and document releases have been scheduled just before a weekend, or just before a long holiday, in an obvious attempt to buffer criticism from an electorate whose attention span is short
* DEMOCRATS ASK CLINTON'S COOPERATION IN PROBES...New May 22, 1998, P.M.
Just as Republicans finally stood up during the Watergate scandal and joined Democrats in demanding accountability from President Nixon, this week Democrats joined Republicans in a bipartisan 342-69 vote urging President Clinton to begin cooperating with Senate and House investigative panels. Today's Washington Post article, "Democrats Ask Clinton's Cooperation in Probes," documents the second rebuke President Clinton has received within a week from his own political party--this Wednesday the House also voted overwhelmingly to strip Clinton of his power to approve transfers of sensitive technology to China. Both Republicans and Democrats are upset that, during his upcoming trip to China, President Clinton plans to be received by Beijing officials in Tiananmen Square--the very site where hundreds of democracy protestors were gunned down by their own government in 1989.
CHINA SCANDAL--FIRST WEEK WRAP UP...New May 22, 1998
Rumor has it that the White House is planning a Memorial holiday document dump for US-China technology-transfer documents. To date the Clinton administration has been adamant in its refusal to turn over such documents to House and Senate investigative panels.
Meanwhile, a Senate panel released a CIA report that clarifies the similarity between China's satellite launcher rockets and ICBM's loaded with thermonuclear weapons. Yesterday's Associated Press article, CIA Releases China Technology Info, details this issue.
Tony Snow, creator of the Fox News network, has published an essay in which he accuses President Clinton of "simple incompetence...in draining the American military of its muscle, crippling its will, sucking the brains from the intelligence establishment, and removing what backbone remained in the foreign policy establishment." Mr. Snow continues:
The administration permitted two companies with close Democratic ties, Hughes Electronics and Loral Space & Communications Ltd., to help China launch American satellites that contained encryption microchips. When one such launch went awry, American teams went to search the wreckage. They found a Loral satellite more or less intact -- except for the encryption microchips, which were missing!
Subsequently, China got U.S. help in fixing up its rockets to avoid future explosions. The mishap thus produced two perverse results: China now not only has the microchips, it also can hit the United States with nuclear weapons. All but five of the communist nation's 18 ICBMs are aimed at us. To top it off, those rockets within a decade will have the ability to launch 10 warheads apiece, rather than just one -- also thanks to American know-how.
An October 15, 1997 Hughes Electronics Corporation press release has surfaced which underscores their high level of commitment to the exchange of satellite and advanced electronics technology with the government of the People's Republic of China.
Please don't just read this and walk away. The most recent U.S.-China technology transfer occurred in February 1998--this is a current issue. Our Senators and Representatives will act to stop these unprecedented breaches of American security, and move against those responsible, only if they know YOU CARE! Silence amounts to acquiescence.
You have the ability to empower your representatives in Congress by telling them what you think. Your sovereign power, once expressed, becomes their political power. We have had two clear wins of late, the recent repeal of Section 1520, Chapter 32 of the United States Code (which allowed Department of Defense testing of biological and chemical weapons on civilian populations without their consent) and this week's bipartisan vote by the House of Representatives to ban the export of sensitive technology to China. You can do something.
President Clinton's e-mail address is: president@whitehouse.gov. President Clinton's phone number is (202) 456-1414. His fax number is (202) 456-2461.
All U.S. Senators and Representatives have e-mail addresses, which are often listed in the front of your local telephone directory under "Government Officials." The House Web Site is www.house.gov and the Senate Web Site is www.senate.gov.
The toll-free number for the Capitol Switchboard is (800) 504-0031. They will connect you to the Washington office of any Senator or Representative.
If you know your senator's last name, it can be inserted according to the following format: "senator@last name.senate.gov (i.e. senator@feinstein.senate.gov).
If you know your representative's first and last name, they can be inserted in the following format: first name.last name.@mail.house.gov (i.e. lynn.woolsey@mail.house.gov).
Here are some examples of recent e-mails to government officials. Happy trails!
* HOUSE VOTES TO BAN EXPORT OF SATELLITES AND MISSILE TECHNOLOGY TO CHINA...New May 21, 1998
Today's article by Eric Schmitt in The New York Times, "House Votes to Ban Export of Satellites and Missile Technology to China," informs us that yesterday the House of Representatives approved, by overwhelming bipartisan majority, amendments to a $271 billion Defense Department budget bill that:
Unfortunately, Janet Reno's Justice Department continues to block release of the 1997 Pentagon report that says Loral Space and Communications and Hughes Electronics Corporation compromised national security when they helped the Chinese perfect stage separation and missile guidance technology on their "Long March" rocket.
The Clinton administration is also refusing to release documents that detail presidential approval for technology transfers during 1996, 1997 and 1998.
* MAY 20, 1998 DRUDGE REPORT...New May 21, 1998
When National Security Advisor Samuel Berger assured us that the encryption technology embedded in our communication satellites was sealed in a "black box" and "closely watched," we hardly felt reassured.
Now supersleuth Matt Drudge has talked to employees at Loral Space and Communications. These Loral employees inform us that when a Chinese "Long March" rocket exploded in flames on February 16, 1996 at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province in southern China, the encryption hardware turned up missing in the debris from the $200 million Loral satellite loaded on the rocket.
This is important because the encryption technology used in civilian communication satellites is very similar to that used in military communication satellites. This week's disabling of one satellite has crippled pagers and other systems all across America. If an enemy nation were to reverse engineer the technology embedded in our satellite encryption hardware, that nation could blind our military satellites or cripple our economy at will.
The People's Republic of China, whose leaders stand in total opposition to every principle that informed the Framers of our Consitution, IS such an enemy nation.
SELECT PANEL SOUGHT FOR CHINA PROBE ...New May 20, 1998
Loral Space and Communications has now published a "fact sheet" in which they deny any improper transfer of missile technology to China. Meanwhile, House GOP leaders are calling for the immediate formation of a select panel, patterned after the Watergate special committee, to probe charges that China tried to infiltrate the American political system and to discover whether or not U.S. military secrets were transferred to the Chinese. Today's Washington Times article, Select Panel Sought For China Probe, is authored by Nancy E. Roman.
THE SPIN BEGINS...New May 18, 1998
Yesterday's article in The New York Times, How China Won Rights To Launch Satellites For U.S., provided a great deal of hard information--except that the newspaper (not the Internet) edition carried an apologist subtitle that implied the Clinton administration was merely trying to "balance" commerce with security concerns.
And local talking heads are asking, "Why are we getting so upset about letting the Chinese launch our weather satellites?"
Probably the most disingenuous spin was offered by National Security Advisor Samuel Berger in this morning's New York Times article, Clinton Denies Any Influence of Chinese Money. Berger insists that because the communication satellites in question are put in a "black box" before they are blasted away, no transfer of satellite technology could possibly occur.
We need to clarify some issues:
In Britain, where President Clinton is attending a state function, an article in the London Times was quick to point out that when Clinton transferred responsibility for satellite export licensing from the State Department to the Commerce Department, it was the late Ron Brown who took control. Ron Brown had primary fund-raising responsibilities for the Democratic National Committee, a clear conflict of interest. The circumstances of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's death in an April 1996 airplane crash, including evidence that he suffered a gunshot wound to the head, have raised concerns about foul play in many circles.
Today's essay by William Safire, U.S. Security For Sale, roundly condemns Clinton's sellout of the American people to China. Would that today's lukewarm New York Times editorial, The New China Connection, had a tenth of Safire's roar of righteous indignation given what is surely the worst compromise of national security by any president in American history. Please refer also to William Safire's February 16, 1998 essay dealing with the penetration of the White House by Chinese operatives.
We must never forget that The People's Republic of China describes itself as a "democratic dictatorship," an oxymoron that only the Leninist/Maoist sophists of a Chinese gerontocracy could come up with. The People's Republic of China is no "republic," nor is it "democratic"--it IS a dictatorship whose leaders stand in opposition to every principle our Founding Fathers held dear. We must recognize that the People's Republic of China is our enemy.
* REPUBLICANS SAY CLINTON RISKED SECURITY FOR DONATIONS
New May 16, 1998
Republicans reacted forcefully to a story that appeared in yesterday's The New York Times, which details direct financial ties between China's People's Liberation Army and Clinton fund-raising efforts during his 1996 re-election campaign. Today The New York Times publishes this follow-up story by reporters Eric Schmitt and Don Van Natta Jr.
At issue is Clinton's special approval for the transfer of missile-guidance technology to China Aerospace, which has direct ties to the Chinese military, and the subsequent targeting of thirteen American cities by Chinese "Long March" intercontinental ballistic missiles armed with thermonuclear warheads. Those who are most familiar with the evidence say it is reasonable to presume that Clinton provided special approval for the transfer of missile-guidance technology to China Aerospace by an American company, Loral Space and Communications, in a quid pro quo exchange for large donations to his re-election campaign. In addition to substantial donations that came directly from China's People's Liberation Army, Loral Space and Communications Chief Executive Officer, Bernard L. Schwartz, was the single largest donor to the Democratic Party during 1996. Schwartz gave $632,000 in "soft money" donations in the 1995-96 cycle and another $421,000 in the current electoral cycle, nearly all of which went to Democrats. (Please refer to the May 6, 1998 Washington Post article, GOP Says U.S. Gave China Nuclear Edge).
Some Democrats are still scrambling to deny the charges. However Representative Henry Waxman, the ranking Democrat on the House committee investigating campaign finance abuses, voiced serious concerns regarding the integrity of our election process and national security issues.
* DEMOCRAT FUND-RAISER SAID TO NAME CHINA TIE ...New May 15, 1998
Today we feature the best article to date dealing with large donations that flowed directly from China's People's Liberation Army to the Democratic National Committee during President Clinton's re-election campaign. Exhaustively researched, Jeff Gerth's article, "Democrat Fund-Raiser Said to Name China Tie," appears on the front page of this morning's edition of The New York Times.
Read how Liu Chang-ying, a Lieutenant Colonel in China's People's Liberation Army, funneled tens of thousand of dollars directly to Democrat fund-raiser Johnny Chung, who is now co-operating with Federal investigators. Indeed Lieutenant Colonel Liu Chang-ying's father is General Liu Huaqing, who at the time was China's top military commander and a foremost leader of China's Communist Party. As commander of China's People's Liberation Army, General Liu Huaqing's passion was modernization of China's military through the purchase of Western technology.
Lieutenant Colonel Liu Chang-ying serves as Vice-President of China Aerospace International Holdings, Ltd., the Hong Kong subsidiary of the Chinese government's China Aerospace Corporation. Lieutenant Colonel Liu Chang-ying directly profited from Clinton's 1996 authorization of the transfer of advanced missile guidance technology from two American companies, Loral Space and Communications and Hughes Electronics Corporation, to China Aerospace.
The Pentagon has confirmed that this transfer of advanced missile guidance technology greatly benefitted China's military, whose "Long March" intercontinental ballistic missiles had been notoriously unreliable. The CIA reports that China's nuclear tipped "Long March" ICBM's, now equipped with extremely accurate American guidance systems, have been programmed to destroy thirteen American cities.
New May 13, 1998
The China plot thickens. Tom Lantos, Democrat Congressman from California, sits on the House Government and Oversight and Reform Committe. To date he has been ruthless in blocking an investigation into illegal Chinese contributions to President Clinton's re-election campaign. Could that be because Tom Lantos has himself received Chinese contributions? Certainly we know that Victor and Linda Huang have given considerable money to Lantos' election campaigns, and we know that in 1995 Linda Huang was arrested for participating in an arms smuggling ring sponsored by the People's Republic of China. Now in this report we learn that Lantos' son-in-law is up for an ambassadorship--perhaps as a reward for Lantos' obstructionism?
* GOP SAYS INQUIRY ON CHINA IS BLOCKED ...New May 9, 1998
In this article from today's New York Times, Republicans complain that the Clinton administration has blocked release of a 1997 Pentagon report that verifies national security was damaged when Clinton authorized Loral and Hughes to transfer missile guidance system technology to the Chinese. The Clinton Administration's "veil of secrecy" is frustrating efforts to learn just how much damage has been done to our national security, now that CIA reports confirm that "Long March" Chinese intercontinental ballistic missiles target thirteen American cities. Prior to the release of this technology, these missiles were notoriously unreliable. Now "Long March" Chinese ICBM's, each armed with a city-busting thermonuclear warhead, can reach American soil guided by our own, very accurate, guidance systems.
* U.S.OFFICIAL VISITS CHINA TO IMPROVE MILITARY TIES ...New May 7, 1998
Read it and weep. Further evidence of Clinton's sellout to the Chinese came to light in yesterday's South China Morning Post article that begins, "A senior Defence official is in Beijing to discuss further improvements in military ties with China..." To be precise, Assistant Secretary of Defense Franklin Kramer met with Vice-Chairman of the Central Military Commission, General Zhang Wannian, to discuss "common interests." Perhaps these "common interests" might include the thirteen American cities now targeted by Chinese nuclear warheads, thanks to Clinton's approval of technology transfers by Hughes Electronic Corp. and Loral Space and Communications Ltd. Loral's Chief Executive Officer, Bernard L. Schwartz, was the single largest donor to the Democratic Party during 1996. The article moves on to cheerily predict the lifting of all remaining Tiananmen Square sanctions prohibiting the further export of American military technology to Beijing.
* GOP SAYS U.S. GAVE CHINA NUCLEAR EDGE ...New May 7, 1998
Fortunately, House Republicans may be finding their spine on the "sellout to China" issue. Yesterday even the mainstream Washington Post published an article by Juliet Eilperin, GOP Says U.S. Gave China Nuclear Edge. Hearings are scheduled, so please encourage your people in Congress to stick with this issue and begin to call such technology transfers what they are--TREASON.
* THE NUCLEAR THREAT AND CLINTON LIES ...New May 5, 1998
In today's column Joseph Farah discusses the fact that while President Clinton was assuring the American people that the threat from foreign nuclear weapons was past, at the same time he was authorizing shipment of crucial technology to help China with its missile systems. Regarding his investigation into reports that several U.S. companies, including Motorola, helped improve Chinese missiles by supplying "stage-separation" technology, Representative Dana Rohrabacher's (R-CA) said:
I am very sad to say (the Chinese) now have the capability of landing nuclear weapons in the United States, and we are the ones who perfected their rockets.
On May 1, 1998 we published the Washington Times article that broke this story. Since then, the Clinton administration has sought to reassure us that even though thirteen Chinese missiles now target American cities with thermonuclear weapons, we have a "good working relationship with them," so not to worry.
If Americans cannot sustain appropriate outrage about President Clinton's treasonous compromises of national security, what will arouse us as a nation?
* SENATE BILL 1186--WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP ACT ...New May 4, 1998
While we seldom comment on pending legislation, tomorrow the United States Senate will be voting on Senate Bill 1186, the so-called "Workforce Partnership Act." The name of this Senate bill is certainly warm and fuzzy, however hidden within the text of the bill is a system that resembles nothing so much as the one that prevailed in the old Soviet Union. This bill will drastically curtail the freedom Americans have always enjoyed to pursue their own education and career choices. Look over the bill, and if you agree, please contact your own senators today. In California, the e-mail addresses for Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein are, respectively, senator@boxer.senate.gov and senator@feinstein.senate.gov. All U.S. Senators have e-mail addresses, which are often listed in the front of your local telephone directory under "Government Officials." If you know the senator's last name, it can simply be inserted in the above format, i.e. "senator@____________.senate.gov." The toll-free number for the U.S. Senate is (800) 504-0031.
* CHINA TARGETS THE UNITED STATES ...New May 1, 1998
Today's article in the Washington Times highlights why we should be so concerned about Clinton's acceptance of Chinese money to finance his bid for re-election. In a transparent quid pro quo, after the election Clinton authorized the shipment of supercomputer technology that allows the Chinese to more effectively target our cities with intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Now comes a CIA report that verifies Chinese targeting of thirteen cities in the continental United States with city-busting ICBM's. The Chinese continue to reject re-targeting agreements, and they refuse to join the Twenty-nine Nation Missile Technology Control Regime.
When we remember that two years ago a Chinese general cautioned against our meddling in the Taiwan elections, lest we put Los Angeles at risk, we must conclude that, with respect to his China policy, Clinton's actions are indeed treasonous.