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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (49622)	2/25/2000 10:27:00 AM
From: J.E.Currie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116779

OT. Whenever I read about McCains' work against the Veterans in Congress I get Manchurian thoughts. As a vet during the same time frame, I am coming close to submitting for review that POW's deserve all that we can do for them for their valiant heroistic roles in our defense, with the exception of "The right to run for the Presidency"! je newsmax.com

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (49622)	2/25/2000 10:32:00 AM
From: Enigma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116779

Sorry I misread the number - thought you wrote 20 million! Canada has a large and growing budget surplus - next week's budget will show to what extent taxes will be cut - direct personal taxes are too high here. The Canada Pension Plan is not funded. There is a huge surplus in the 'Employment Insurance Programme' - euphamism of Unemployment Insurance - which it used to be called. Not sure which came first RRSPs or IRAs. RRSPs have been around a long time - they have a very restictive 20% foreign content rule which has never been in the public's interest and which will be relaxed - too gradually I fear.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (49622)	2/26/2000 9:00:00 AM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116779

you catch this one? Trie?s Deadly Deals -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Douglas Burton burton@insightmag.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clinton fund-raiser Charles Trie has admitted to the FBI that he conducted a business deal that gave Red China equipment capable of producing deadly biological weapons. Clinton friend and fund-raiser Charles Trie was a conduit for illegal donations from Chinese military and intelligence operatives to the Democratic National Committee and the president?s campaign committees. But Insight has learned that Trie also was involved ? and used Clinton connections ? in facilitating a 1993 sale of dual-use medical technology to China that poses a significant national-security threat. In the course of 17 secret Trie interviews with the FBI in 1999 the Clinton confidant revealed an elaborate and illegal scheme to funnel large sums into Clinton-Gore campaign coffers and the president?s legal-defense fund. He also confessed to orchestrating the sale of a 500-liter (130-gallon) medical fermentation device to a pharmaceutical plant in China suspected of manufacturing chemical and biological agents for military purposes. Insight has obtained copies of the secret depositions given by Trie to the FBI?s Campaign Finance Task Force that, until recently, was thought to have begun shutting down operations after skirmishes with the Reno Justice Department concerning the scope and direction of the long-running investigation. In fact, based on the FBI?s 302 summaries of Trie?s lengthy depositions, the task force appears significantly to have expanded its operations and is zeroing in on key targets involved in suspected illegal campaign donations from overseas, most notably China and Indonesia. Trie, who pleaded guilty to making illegal campaign operations and is cooperating with federal authorities, has revealed extensive details about the machinery of campaign-finance irregularities involving the Democratic National Committee, or DNC, and Clinton?s political operations. He lays bare the elaborate methods he and others used to collect and channel illegal contributions from Asian-Americans and overseas nationals. It is the revelation about the estimated $1 million sale of dual-use medical technology to China, however, and the involvement of a respected U.S. government scientist in a company Trie used to facilitate the sale, that most deeply has shocked federal investigators and national-security officials contacted by Insight. Peter Leitner, a senior Defense Department licensing analyst who specializes in export controls of dual-use technology, has reviewed Insight?s copies of the confidential FBI interviews with Trie. Leitner says the transfer of the highly sophisticated pharmaceutical-grade fermenting machine poses significant risks to U.S. security at home and abroad if used to make advanced germ-warfare products such as anthrax and botulism. The evidence of the fermenting machine?s sale and transfer sometime in 1993 to the Changchun Biological Products Institute is alarming, according to Leitner, given that the Chinese facility has been flagged by some experts as a biological-weapons laboratory run by the People?s Liberation Army. Leitner tells Insight: ?This whole affair has the classic earmarks of a Chinese military-intelligence operation.? What the FBI has done with the information newly obtained from Trie is not clear. However, Insight has learned that Rep. Dan Burton, the Indiana Republican who is chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, is aware of the new development and has scheduled hearings on this and other revelations made to the FBI by Trie. Scott Wheeler, an investigative correspondent with the TV show American Investigator, has just finished a related video documentary, Trading With the Enemy: How the Clinton Administration Armed China. He presents a Who?s Who of military and intelligence officials, including former CIA director James Woolsey, discussing the ongoing and persistent attempts by Beijing to obtain such dual-use technologies from producers in the United States. Wheeler and Leitner, who appears in the documentary, were asked to comment on the FBI summary materials. Leitner tells Insight that Trie?s export of biotech materials to China illustrates ?a major diversion of U.S. military and technological assets to biowarfare plants in China.? According to Wheeler: ?This is a new basis for the congressional oversight committees to revisit the federal task-force investigation of campaign-finance violations in light of compelling evidence that the Reno Justice Department has failed to conduct a thorough investigation.? Trie told the FBI he formed an international-trading business in 1991 that ?brokered the export of biotech machinery and elevator equipment to China.? It was this company, Daihatsu International Trading Inc., that arranged the sale in mid-1992 of the 500-liter fermenting machine from Sulzer Biotech Systems in Woodbury, N.Y., which, only after Clinton took office in January 1993, shipped the... insightmag.com