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To: Brumar89 who wrote (42743)	10/4/2000 9:49:32 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 769667

More on Chinese acquisitions of US defense secrets - BOTH parties (it's not just Clinton/Gore) have been corrupted by Lockheed, Boeing, Loral, & Hughes acting as agents of China: freerepublic.com Excerpt: An examination of Federal Election Commission, Center For Responsive Politics and Justice Department "agents of foreign principals" lobby records regarding contributions to U.S. House and Senate members reveals startling conflicts of interest concerning legislators charged with oversight of matters related to China's recent ability to gather American dual-use military research and development secrets almost at will. U.S. defense corporations McDonnell-Douglas (Boeing), Lockheed Martin, Loral Space (Lockheed) and Hughes Electronics (General Motors) are either under indictment, awaiting indictment or under current investigation by the Justice Department for illegally passing rocket and satellite technology to China But the illegalities may have little effect upon the outcome of the looming vote to extend permanent most favored status to China -- now called "normal" trade relations (PNTR). However, the congressional conflicts of interest are anything but normal. For each company also plays a significant role in the political dealings and donor machinations of representatives who must now return favors connected to the PNTR vote -- legislators who are also charged with investigating espionage and campaign finance scandals related to China. . . . . The public is likely too busy working to pay taxes to question the reasons why so many U.S. legislators intend to vote for PNTR, notwithstanding China's stunning list of horrific activities: pointing missiles at the U.S., retransferring our military technology to rogue-nation enemies, pirating and counterfeiting our copyrights and industrial research, torturing political dissidents and harvesting organs from unwilling Chinese citizens for profit -- the list goes on while congressmen trip over each other extolling the virtues of Chinese "engagement." Conservative political commentator M. Stanton Evans sometimes referred to the Democrats as the evil party and the Republicans as the stupid party. In light of the numerous congressional conflicts of interest, perhaps both parties are more shrewd than stupid or evil. Maybe radical campaign finance reform should be viewed as a national security issue.