Is Clinton a threat to national security?
Former chairman of Joint Chiefs
raises issue in letter to congressional leaders
By Ed Oliver
© 1998 WorldNetDaily.com
Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrote to House Majority Whip Tom DeLay two days before the House began debate on impeachment questioning whether President Clinton represents a threat to national security, WorldNetDaily has learned.
The letter sent to DeLay added comments to Moorer's December 1st testimony to the House Judiciary Committee on the "corrosive effects on the military's code of honor and the rule of law of having a commander-in-chief who has admitted misleading the nation."
In the letter obtained by WorldNetDaily, Moorer urged DeLay and his fellow members to consider the president's lying in the context of national security in the House deliberations over impeaching President Clinton.
"My additional concern is one which bothers many who care about our nation's security," he wrote. "It is a concern for the effect which the pattern of deception by the president has had upon our military capability, and the effect it may have in the future if not checked. There is mounting evidence that this misleading of the nation is not confined to this one matter of sexual transgression and the ensuing cover-up. If the lack of veracity is allowed to stand unpunished, will not the president be emboldened to assume that he has successfully hamstrung the constitutional check and balance upon his power which would prevent betrayal of the country's trust? Would he then no longer need to fear exposure of far more serious matters whose possible presence is now only beginning to be revealed due to his skillful obstruction of their being fully known before now? Is there not evidence even now of such matters affecting national security?"
Moorer referred specifically to the questions surrounding the Clinton's relationship with China, and the evidence that sensitive technology has been permitted to flow to Beijing during an administration brought to power, in part, by massive, still-unexplained, and uninvestigated campaign contributions from Chinese sources.
"It is clear from the present proceedings that the president parcels out bits of information and misdirects the press so as to prevent full comprehension by the general public," Moorer wrote. "This same technique, it now appears, has been used in matters which threaten national security. I speak particularly of the question of breaching our defenses by granting the Chinese Communist regime (one of brutal oppression based upon the coercion of human labor and the deprivation of freedom), access to our technology, the secrets of our strategy, and a controlling presence in our most vital choke point -- the Isthmus of Panama. That strategic position alone enables this brutal regime, which seeks dominance over us, to neutralize our entire forward-deployed military capability. See my testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, copy enclosed, on this latter point. The White House is not forthcoming on these matters."
Moorer then referred to his letter sent to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde earlier this year, and a conference preceding it. In that letter, obtained by WorldNetDaily, Adm. Moorer impressed upon Hyde that we are at a "crucial juncture" in our history requiring the chairman to step up to defend the constitution for which so many have died.
"Here we see a spreading stain of dishonor which is infecting the entire body politic, Moorer wrote. "The president has his flacks cry that the people don't care what immoral and dishonorable things he does, he just wants to run the country as he was chosen by them to do. But he dare not let them see how he is actually administering his high office, and whether his dishonor is such that it is connected to decisions which are harmful and not helpful to the nation."
Moorer continued in his Dec. 16 letter to DeLay: "You have noted that you came quickly to realize, in dealing with the president, that his word was not to be trusted. My concerns over the compromises of our national security which have occurred under his leadership have their origin in the same trait. They are corroborated in the recent work by the leading congressional experts on the improper influence of our most likely strategic foe, the Communist Chinese, upon this administration. I speak of 'The Year of the Rat,' by William Triplett and Ed Timperlake, a work well-footnoted with references to reliable sources. It and our work on our Panama Canal project reveal this betrayal of our security sufficiently to make further inquiry imperative." The project the admiral referred to is a new organization incorporated as "U.S. Defense- American Victory (USDAV), for which he serves as honorary chairman, according to Washington attorney Lawrence Elgin, president of USDAV.
"We're very fortunate, in a way, that Clinton was not a person who served in the military because the only thing that is going to stop him now is the rallying of the military, and the veterans and so forth," Elgin said.
Comprised of a Who's Who of retired military brass, the organization started in 1997 as an informal planning and discussion group called "Peace Through Strength Institute." After an interval of writing informational pieces and meeting with officials, the group decided to incorporate. The organization's e-mail address is lawnet@erols.com. The group has been helping to publicize the efforts of Ying Ne, president of the Free China Movement, an umbrella organization of Chinese anti-Communist groups. Ying Ne, a former customs inspector, submitted testimony about Chinese shipping containers, backing Admiral Moorer's statements to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on June 16 about Chinese control of the Panama Canal ports.
The USDAV is also taking action in the courts. It is currently backing a lawsuit in federal court, "Bao Ge v. Li Ping," challenging the Communist Chinese use of slave labor.
"It's filed by former slaves who were tortured just like our captives in Korea, and they were made to sew soccer balls for Adidas, which is a huge German combine selling products here in the American market," explained Elgin.
In its most ambitious effort, the organization is drafting a complex lawsuit to be filed in January or February to stop implementation of the Panama Canal Treaty. It will be filed on behalf of present and former Canal Zone residents, and directed at a number of defendants including Hutchinson-Whampoa, a Chinese company taking over former American facilities.
Elgin added that the group plans to ask Sen. Arlen Specter to challenge Republican Senate leadership to force Attorney General Janet Reno to appoint an independent counsel to investigate the Chinese Communist influence in this administration.
A young Lt. Cmdr. Moorer was the only American aviator able to get his plane off the ground at Pearl Harbor. He subsequently tracked the Japanese fleet into the night reporting back their position to commanders worried about an attack on U.S. carriers. Today, Admiral Moorer is point man in the effort to alert Congress and the public to the danger of the Panama Canal falling under total control of the Chinese military.
"President Clinton promised to restrain those who ordered the Tiananmen Square massacre, but he has now allowed these men whose hands are stained with the blood of martyrs to freedom into the highest reaches of our military defenses, and made available to them significant portions of our advanced military technology, and the engines of our invention which support that superiority, as well as allowing the controlling presence in the Panamanian Isthmus accomplished by using commercial entities identified with the Communist Chinese military," he wrote in his letter to DeLay. "The consequent threat to our nation's security, and the apparent willingness to breach that security, indicate that now is not the time to ignore or forgive the perjury and obstruction of justice which has been uncovered in the non-military matters before you."
Moorer discounted public opinion polls showing Clinton is enjoying unprecedented popularity with the American people, despite the issues raised by impeachment.
"But if the discretion of the people has not been informed, as Thomas Jefferson would have said, how can their will be determinative?" he asks. "If the people knew of all of the other falsehoods that have been engaged in, would their opinion be the same?
"I note that the scope of the present investigation leading to the proceedings before you was determined entirely by the president, the man accused of the impropriety. If there is corrupt foreign influence at the highest levels, is it likely that the investigation of it would have been assigned to the independent counsel? Indeed, is there not the possibility that what was assigned to the independent counsel was originally intended as a diversion from just those improprieties which the president knew that the public would not tolerate? The seasoned strategist, contemplating the penetration of the White House by our most likely strategic foe, cannot help but be concerned about the possibility that there is coordination with Chinese military ambition that is improper, and betrays the trust of the people."
Moorer said the issues before the Congress must be viewed through the prism of national security.
"The path before you is clear: Honor your oath and defend the Constitution, or give in to a transient clamor for such pure democracy that will, if pursued to its conclusion, destroy our Constitution, and cause the failure of our Republic," he wrote. "What you are now called upon to do is in many ways a greater defense of our nation than any act of war which I and many others have been called upon to perform, and those that have given their lives in such great number to keep this republic will have died in vain if in this hour your courage does not continue to equal their own."
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