His unwillingness to defend our nation, its secrets and our people is treasonous imo.
Bill Gertz has said that what Clinton did is willfully ignore infiltration by China of the FBI and CIA, turning some inside these agencies against the U.S. government. More specifically, "two counterspying veterans seduced by Chinese spy Katrina Leung into giving valuable electronic eavesdropping secrets to Beijing."
I found a critique of Gertz's new book.......Enemies: How America's Foes Steal Our Vital Secrets--and How We Let It Happen.
A few passages from that critique are below.
It would be nice if the NYTs and Bob Woodward spent a little more time investigating this and a little less investigating GWB.
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Gertz has consistently warned of the military threat from China. His latest reporting reveals that Chinese penetration is even greater than thought, in large part due to the previous administration's open-door "engagement" policy with Beijing.
He goes on: "practically everything was put up for sale in a perpetual election cycle — the nuclear labs, the White House, missile technology, export policy, foreign policy, and on and on."
As shocking as such treason is, it should have been expected given the new environment in which the U.S. intelligence community was operating. The tone set from the top was that the Cold War was over and the communists no longer a threat. Clinton put out the welcome mat to the Chicoms and said it was OK to share secrets.
As soon as he took office, he implemented a policy of "denuclearization." That included ending nuke testing, kicking open the nuclear labs to Chinese visitors and declassifying hundreds of thousands of documents related to our nuclear program.
Clinton also deregulated export of sensitive dual-use technology. And Beijing gleefully took advantage of the dovish shift, sharpening the reliability of the missiles it has aimed at the U.S. and Taiwan.
Meanwhile, the Clinton administration throttled the prosecution of Chinese spy cases and allegedly covered up investigations into Chinese funny money that poured into his and other Democrats' campaign coffers, including those of Al Gore and John Kerry.
As the lead agent in charge of the FBI's Chinagate probe in Arkansas was preparing a "hard-hitting" investigation, then-Attorney General Janet Reno was doing everything she could to block him.
"Witnesses were disappearing overseas or being coached to ensure their stories were consistent, evidence was being destroyed and investigative initiative was being lost," complained then-FBI Special Agent in Charge I.C. Smith in his memoir.
These chickens will come home to roost. If there is a crisis in the Taiwan Strait, we will see the full extent of the damage from the treasonous Chinagate scandal of the Clinton years.
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