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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (19922)	12/30/2007 2:06:27 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224699

National Security: Hillary Clinton claims she can't recall who vouched for Chinese bagman Norman Hsu. She expects us to believe he just showed up, dumping $850,000 in her lap.Her campaign chairman, Terry McAuliffe, famous for his careful grooming of big donors and fundraisers, says he's also stumped. "I don't know how he became involved in the Clinton campaign," he said. This is the same Democrat power broker who courted the other Clinton's top donor in the last Clinton presidential campaign — New York businessman Bernard Schwartz — who just happens to know Hsu. We don't think it's a coincidence that Hillary's top donor sat with Bill's top donor on the board of a small left-wing New York college, the New School, to which Hillary has steered at least a million in federal grants. Nor is it a coincidence that the two in November chaired a New School banquet at the Mandarin Oriental in New York that featured Sen. Clinton as keynote speaker. Nor is it a coincidence that Hsu's donations to Democrats mirror Schwartz's donations to Democrats. A review of Federal Election Commission records reveals they both have given to HillPac, Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, Rep. Patrick Kennedy and Sen. Maria Cantwell, among others. They also both happen to share interest in the same causes, such as Emily's list, a favorite beneficiary of Schwartz's wife, Stephanie. We also don't think it's a coincidence that both of these major Clinton donors do major business with China. Hsu, an apparel trader in jail for bilking U.S. investors out of millions, has lobbied the U.S. government to relax rules with China. As head of Loral Space and Communications, Schwartz lobbied for the traitorous transfer of missile technology to Beijing — and got it with Clinton's blessing. In 1996, after Schwartz stuffed his pockets with more than $600,000 in campaign cash, the president personally approved the launch of four communication satellites on Chinese rockets. He did this despite objections from the Pentagon and even the Justice Department, which investigated Schwartz. U.S. intelligence feared Loral was helping Beijing improve the accuracy and reliability of its ballistic missiles. Intelligence was right. China's recent downing of a satellite with a ground-based missile would not have been possible without Loral's technical assistance. Schwartz claims the favorable treatment he got from the Clinton administration was merely a "coincidence." Yes, it's all just a coincidence. Just like when months before he won a prized seat on a Commerce Department trade junket to China, Schwartz wrote a check to Democrats for $100,000. It was on that trip that Schwartz scored a meeting with China's top telecom poobah, which led to Loral winning a $250 million cell phone deal. After the junket, Schwartz wrote a thank you note to his Commerce Department contact. "These are exciting times," he said, "but you know what the Chinese said about that!" Exciting, indeed. No doubt Hsu was hoping for the same kind of excitement before he was exposed. Under the last Clinton presidency, national security was treated as a joke, and 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. A parade of Chinese bagmen, along with American crony capitalists like Schwartz, marched into Washington to buy influence and who knows what else. No doubt Hsu is the clumsiest of the bunch. Surely more will follow, undermining U.S. security, if Hillary can convince enough voters to put her and her husband back in the White House.