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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Charles Hughes who wrote (27463)1/12/1999 5:46:00 PM
From: Bill Grant  Respond to of 67261
 
<<You want to complain about technology transfer to the Chinese, go dig up Nixon. Or cross-examine Bush. Me, I think that inquiry goes
nowhere.>>

There's a distinct difference. Before Clinton, all such technology transfers were routed through, and approved by, the Department of Defense presumably to guard against significant security breaches. Clinton transferred the authority to Ron Brown's Commerce Department where security concerns were not given precedence over commercial interests.