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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Les H who wrote (8484)	10/18/1998 7:52:00 PM
From: cody andre	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

Security guarantees from Clinton Administration are not worth the toilet paper they are written on.

To: Les H who wrote (8484)	10/18/1998 10:51:00 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13994

NEW YORK TIMES: CHINESE MILITARY GROWTH TIED TO U.S. EXPORT-POLICY SHIFT "An examination of the Clinton administration's export policies on China, based on interviews as well as government and industry documents, shows that the looser regulations enabled Chinese companies to obtain a wide range of sophisticated technology, some of which has already been diverted to military uses." So reports NEW YORK TIMES hotshot Jeff Gerth in Monday editions. The DRUDGE REPORT obtained a prerelease of the Gerth expose that has been hotly anticipated in official Washington circles in recent days. Senior officials have told Gerth that President Clinton decided to change U.S. export rules and policy -- involving sales of computers and other cutting-edge technologies -- without a rigorous review by intelligence officials or other national security experts. Commerce Department internal documents reviewed by the TIMES show that China has been a major beneficiary of the new Clinton policy: "According to a 1995 estimate, more than $1.9 billion in annual trade with China had been removed from federal scrutiny." In 1996, Chinese companies bought 77 high-speed computers from U.S. companies, "which can be used to predict weather patterns but can also scramble secret communications or design powerful nuclear weapons," reports Gerth. "CIA and other federal agencies have concluded that at least some of those computers are now being used by China's military." Gerth's nightmare runs 3,000-words and was bumped from the paper's lead spot on Monday because of developments in the Mideast peace talks, it has been learned. The Senate Intelligence Committee and a special House panel have held a series of closed-door hearings in the past few months. Gerth outlines the red zones of the probes. The Clinton administration's new policy on tech sales to China relied on industry executives to raise questions about their own sales, according to the report. "They were required to seek a Commerce Department license only if they believed the equipment would end up in military hands. Aerospace officials say they are ill equipped to make such evaluations." AT&T and other U.S. companies sold hundreds of millions of dollars in sophisticated tech equipment in to Chinese companies building "civil telecommunication networks" in 1994. The TIMES reports that an examination of the deal by the General Accounting Office, the audit arm of Congress, has found that "the equipment was sold to a Chinese-U.S. joint venture, Hua Mei, without Commerce review, even though the company was partially controlled by several high-level members of the Chinese military." Developing hard. X X X X X FARRAKHAN PREDICTS QUAKES AND SNAKES! There are slightly more than 400 days left until the calendar flips Y2K and already there are signs that political rhetoric and religious prophecy may soon heat to a human broil. Nation of Islam minister Louis Farrakhan warned America on Sunday that it will soon be hit with absolute chaos when superquakes shake and destroy whole American cities! "The injustice to blacks, Native Americans and the poor has caused God to send down a divine decree of judgment against this nation," Farrakhan told NBC's Tim Russert on MEET THE PRESS. He warned that God will punish the country with floods, tornadoes, hailstones "and the soon to come earthquakes that will destroy whole cities in America." Farrakhan told Russert that America is "terrorizing the nations of the world with its inordinate power." "[God] is pouring calamity after calamity on this country, And unless the president atones and calls this nation to atone, then America will go the way of ancient Egypt, Sodom and Gomorrah, Babylon and ancient Rome. America is in deep trouble... You're going to have to atone for your wickedness and sins and come clean before God, or he will wipe this nation from the face of the earth!" >>>Gee, I thought Farrakan would be happy Clinton was about to sell >>>out Israel.