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To: TigerPaw who wrote (400587)	4/29/2003 3:36:36 PM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Kerrey: Senate report on Clinton-China ties no 'love letter' A Senate committee's report on possibly illegal Chinese campaign contributions and the transfer of missile technology to China will contain a "candid evaluation" of President Bill Clinton's role in those controversies, according to the panel's senior Democrat. Asked if the report will be critical of Clinton, Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Nebraska) said, "Well, it is certainly not a love letter." He added that there was evidence of "poor oversight and poor policy." The report, approved by the Senate Intelligence Committee Wednesday, is expected to be released within the next day or two. Committee Chairman Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Alabama) would not divulge details of the report, which is still being reviewed by the Central Intelligence Agency. Kerrey, the intelligence panel's vice chairman, said the committee had produced a "bipartisan, non-partisan document." The committee has been pursuing two separate, but intertwined, lines of inquiry: To what extent did agents of the Chinese government, working through Democratic fund-raisers, funnel campaign contributions to the Democratic National Committee or the 1996 Clinton-Gore presidential campaign? Did Clinton administration policy allow for the transfer of missile technology to the Chinese -- in an effort to help improve the success of their commercial rocket launches -- that could be converted for use by China's military? I guess you forgot about this one TP? LOL!!

To: TigerPaw who wrote (400587)	4/29/2003 3:38:13 PM
From: jim-thompson	Respond to of 769670

Willy could have had a ball with her in the oval office. I am really surprised she didn't give it a try. She fit the bill, not fat, but old and ugly.... hahahahaha

To: TigerPaw who wrote (400587)	4/29/2003 3:39:48 PM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

China funds" charges against Clinton A new phase in Washington's political warfare By Martin McLaughlin A new front has been opened up in the political warfare in Washington, with claims by congressional Republicans that the Clinton administration agreed to reverse US policy on the export of satellite technology to China after large campaign contributions from aerospace companies and the Chinese government itself. The Republican charges are based on press accounts, mainly from the New York Times, and on leaks from the US Justice Department, which is conducting a criminal investigation of possible Chinese government efforts to influence the 1996 presidential and congressional elections, including funneling contributions into the campaigns of particular candidates, among them Clinton. Two aspects of the most recent revelations bear examination: the influence on Clinton administration policy of Loral Corporation and Hughes Aerospace, and the reported testimony of Johnny Chung, a Taiwanese-American businessman who gave a total of $366,000 to Democratic Party campaigns in 1996. In the case of Loral and Hughes, the issue was a US government policy, enacted after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, which limited exports of satellite technology to China and required a specific presidential decision to permit American satellite manufacturers to use Chinese rockets as launching vehicles to place their satellites in orbit. After the Clinton administration initially denied permission for such satellite launches, Loral Corporation Chairman Bernard Schwartz became the largest personal contributor to the Democratic Party, giving more than $600,000 for the 1996 campaign and another $421,000 for the current 1998 campaign. His contributions were not in vain. In February 1996 Clinton gave approval to four launches of US-built satellites using Chinese Long March missiles. A month later the authority over such deals was transferred from the State Department, which had opposed the launch approval, to the Commerce Department, which was committed to promoting US corporate access to the lucrative Chinese market.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (400587)	4/29/2003 3:42:00 PM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 769670

Chinese Intelligence Wanted Clinton Elected - because they could use him Why Do We Tolerate A President Who Has Sold His Country’s Secrets to a Potential Enemy? By: Mary Mostert, Analyst, Original Sources One of my readers faxed me a copy of an article entitled "Clinton and Beijing" written by Peter Zhang in the current issue of "The New Australian" which proves that, while most Americans appear to have swept Clinton's impeachment and questions about his morals under the rug, people in other nations have not. The great "free" press of America, which smugly concluded that NATO destroying the Yugoslavia broadcast studios was "good" because it was supposedly not telling the truth, has simply not told the American people the truth about Bill Clinton and National Security. "I keep getting emails from American readers pleading to know how deeply Clinton has damaged American National Security," Zhang wrote. " ...American security has been shattered. Chinese officials have privately bragged about the extent of their penetration, their placing of agents, their successful use of bribery and blackmail. I've heard stories that I would never repeat, though I know them to be true, because many readers would consider them fantastic. But would they be any more fantastic than a president selling his country's secrets to a potential enemy? And yet this is exactly what Clinton has done. To gain some grasp of the danger in which Clinton may very well have put America in one only needs to read the Cox report. "As for Bill Clinton, I personally believe he is capable of anything, a view shared by Chinese officials who also hold him in the greatest contempt. He is not only considered treacherous but unstable. A man completely incapable of seeing beyond tomorrow. This goes, someway, in Chinese eyes, of understanding his motives. I pointed out in another article that Beijing has a profile on every member of Congress - the House and Senate. The interesting thing is that Clinton's file goes back, so I have been told, to his student days. "This information is particularly interesting because it is clearly impossible for any intelligence agency, especially a foreign one, to determine which students will always make a career out of politics. So this raises an important question: why did Chinese intelligence show an early interest in Clinton? I'm not suggesting that Clinton was involved with Chinest intelligence form when he was a student only that it was aware of what I shall call his potential. Clearly something or someone, and I'm not referring to the Russians, alerted them. Who or what has not been revealed." Zhang points out that Clinton had "Asian connections" very early in his political career in Arkansas. Zhang is not the only foreign journalist who knew this. In November 1996 the London Times reported: "The Clinton Administration may have been penetrated by foreign intelligence. Behind the complex web of the Lippo Scandal lies Chinese Intelligence interests. The Chinese-born John Huang, before moving to Arkansas, worked for the Hong Kong Chinese Bank, a bank jointly owned by Lippo Group and by Chinese intelligence interests." Huang, you will recall, funneled lots of money which, it appears, came from Chinese Intelligence, into the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign. Why was Chinese Intelligence so interested in Clinton, even as governor? Zhang observes: "The key to the puzzle lies in his (Clinton's) psychological profile. My understanding is that Chinese intelligence concluded that Clinton is bereft of any kind of morality or cultural moorings and that he is totally absorbed; a man for whom the only thing that counts is what promotes his interest regardless of the cost to others, including the nation; a man with no sense of honour, integrity or loyalty but an uncanny ability to convey the opposite feelings. It was early evidence of this ability plus his thuggishness in pursuit of his own ambitions that finally convinced Beijing that he was a political winner. "Beijing knew what many still cannot see. Clinton sees the presidency as a mere trophy, a kind of political Oscar. Everything he does is geared to winning and keeping that Oscar. Curiously enough, it is this destructive ambition - destructive to America, that is - that leaves him as a Democrat. Now Clinton is a genuine political thug and these types of thugs are attracted to politics because of the power it gives them. Therefore, when they gain power they do what they can to accumulate even more. This is why the likes of Clinton are not to be found in political parties that preach small government, the need for low taxation and the virtues of patriotism. No wonder it was child's play for Beijing to manipulate Clinton." The startling revelations in the Cox report are not breaking news. The London Times reported in November 1996, "The CIA two weeks ago seized 25 of 40 files kept in a safe for John Huang by Small Business Administration official Ira Sockowitz. A dossier labeled "People's Republic of China Intelligence Penetration" of the Clinton Administration has been prepared for the House Oversight Committee that is expected to start hearings on the topic. Its new chairman will be Dan Burton. "So the scandal that the U.S. media is trying to portray as a campaign finance scandal and use as an argument for campaign finance reform, seems to be a classical intelligence operation in which corrupt politicians and lax security have been exploited to the financial gain of China. The investment China has made in the Clinton administration is nothing compared to the windfall it has received from Most Favored Nation trading status and numerous trade deals. "White House officials have already started pointing the finger at a dead man, former Commerce Secretary Ron Brown. But as usual, this obfuscation appears designed to distract attention from the first lady Hillary Clinton, who has had a role in the hiring of John Huang. The Washington Times is citing a report that says that John Huang was hired by Hillary Clinton. And John Huang himself said during his recent deposition that while he was in hiding from the U.S. Marshall recently, Hillary Clinton reached out to him." Billions of dollars and thousands of lives have been lost in the last three months because Bill Clinton suddenly decided to bomb Belgrade - without a UN resolution, without going to Congress, over a conflict within a sovereign nation. Why? Perhaps because the Cox Report was about to be released?