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To: Zoltan! who wrote (61999)	10/29/1999 10:05:00 AM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 67261

As long as we're trampling all over constitutional rights with this campaign "reform" nonsense anyway, lets also outlaw focus groups. The Democrats would then have to think for themselves and explode.

To: Zoltan! who wrote (61999)	10/29/1999 10:10:00 AM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 67261

An excellent column. I remember how much the "domino theory" in SE Asia was scoffed at by these liberal thinkers, until it became a sad reality. JLA

To: Zoltan! who wrote (61999)	10/29/1999 2:16:00 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Huang is afraid. newsmax.com Friday October 29, 12:45 AM Heavily Guarded, Johnny Chung Tells of Death Threats "First of all I want to say thank you for the first time," Chinagate witness Johnny Chung told a packed hall Saturday night at the Pasadena Hilton. "Everytime I mean to do it but everytime on TV they always edit. So tonight is the night I can say it without edit." This particular expression of gratitude was directed not at Judicial Watch, the legal watchdog group sponsoring an award honoring Chung for his courageous testimony. Nor was the Chinagate witness thanking the audience for turning out by the hundreds. "I want to thank those FBI agents who put their life on the line for me and risk their life to protect my family and me, " Chung said. "They are the best of the best. They are the FBI Los Angeles Counterintelligence Group." A law enforcement source confirmed to NewsMax.com that no fewer than six armed FBI agents were on hand to protect Chung as he spoke. His wife and daughter were seated just feet away as he addressed the standing-room-only crowd. So why, with the public and the press long ago bored with Chinagate, is this key cooperating witness still in such danger? Chung remains the only figure whose testimony links the Clinton campaign fundraising scandal directly to Chinese espionage. The Chinese businessman has told investigators how General Ji Shengde, then head of Chinese military intelligence, personally offered Chung $300,000 to funnel into Clinton campaign coffers with these words: "We like your president. We want to see him re-elected." Last spring Chung blew the lid off Beijing's efforts to keep secret the relationship between the Peoples Liberation Army and US aerospace firms, such as Hughes and Loral, whose missile guidance technology helped perfect the Chinese inter-continental ballistic threat and whose chairman, Bernard Schwartz, was the single biggest Clinton donor in 1996. But before Johnny Chung exposed significant parts of the Chinagate cover-up, Beijing's agents made sure he understood that cooperating with investigators would place him and his family in grave danger. "My wife said to me, 'Tell the truth and we will take the heat together.'" Now, Chung's fax business is about to fold and he is personally broke, but that's the least of his worries. "Since I've begun to tell the truth, my whole family has been under government protection," Chung told the crowd. Rather than embittering him, the experience seems to have given Chung the strength to withstand the pressure. "We love each other more because we are in the same room 24 hours a day, seven days a week... I'm only allowed one hour under the sunshine." Visibly proud of his American citizenship, the diminutive witness insisted that he doesn't regret telling what he knows. Then Chung issued a direct challenge to those who seek to silence him: "I got a message for whatever group going to receive this message. You can try to kill me, but you cannot stop me from telling the truth." Johnny Chung's full address is scheduled to be broadcast on C-Span this weekend: Saturday, Oct. 30 at 9:45 PM (ET) and Sunday, Oct. 31 at 12:45 AM (ET).