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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zoltan! who wrote (15273)	5/20/1998 11:55:00 PM
From: DD™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CONSPIRACY: BLOCKS INDEPENDENT COUNSEL INVESTIGATION OF CHINAGATE... DRUDGE REPORT By Matt Drudge WED MAY 20 1998 22:4748 EDT JUSTICE DEPT REJECTS FBI ADVICE; REFUSES TO BRING IN SPECIAL COUNSEL IN CHINA/US TECH TRANSFER Update Thursday's NEW YORK TIMES reveals that the Justice Department has "blocked the Pentagon from releasing a classified report" it did in 1997 that found that the help the Chinese received in during the China/U.S. tech transfer episode "harmed the national security of the United States by advancing China's missile capabilities." Senior Justice Department officials Wednesday rejected an FBI suggestion to invoke the Independent Counsel Act in the ongoing investigation, Thursday's WASHINGTON POST reports. "The fact that the Justice Department advised the White House against granting the 1998 waiver for Loral -- which is the subject of a separate criminal probe for allegedly transferring sensitive technology to China -- is regarded by FBI officials as the kind of internal conflict of interest that also justifies turning the matter over," reveals the paper's Roberto Suro. "I strongly suspect that we'll call Janet Reno up to The Hill for explanation on all of this in the very near future," a senior congressional source tells the DRUDGE REPORT. "Cameras will be on... we need to get some answers out to the public as soon as possible." "If there is an innocent explanation for all this, the American people haven't heard it," Rep. Sue Myrick [R-NC] said on the House floor on Wednesday. Just as word spread in Washington that Jeff Gerth of the NEW YORK TIMES is developing another story that will present new information that will start new news cycles. Meanwhile, Wednesday's exclusive in this space on missing sensitive encryption said to be lost during a failed China launch had readers hitting reply. More than 11,000 reaction e-mails have been received since the story transmitted. A veteran employee of LORAL SPACE AND COMMUNICATIONS described what went down during a LORAL review of the 1996 missile failure: "The most interesting aspect of the accident was this: engineers who reviewed the recovered payload debris noticed something special that was missing: encryption hardware." One theory is that the Chinese kept the encryption IC board with the intent of reverse engineering its function and that espionage was China's intent; another theory has the encryption IC board simply burning up during the rocket blast. DD (Drudge Double)