Year of the Rat : How Bill Clinton Compromised U.S. Security for
Chinese Cash
by Edward Timperlake, William C. Triplett
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Hardcover - 275 pages (October 1998)
Regnery Pub; ISBN: 0895263335 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.02 x 9.28 x 6.30
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While many political journalists largely considered the second term of Bill Clinton's presidency in terms of his romantic interludes, Edward Timperlake and William C. Triplett II follow up on one of the more controversial scandals of the 1996 reelection campaign. The Democratic National Committee was eventually forced to return $2.8 million in illegal contributions, much of
it from foreign nationals, and much of it brought to the party by fundraising executive John Huang.
Huang originally represented U.S. interests for the Riady family, a powerful family of Indonesian businessmen with close ties to the Communist Chinese government. James Riady had been a "Friend of Bill" since 1977, and the two authors all but insinuate that the Riadys "scouted" Clinton--whether as an unwitting dupe, a sleeper agent, or merely an exploitable opportunist is never quite clear--and helped underwrite his bid for the White House. Why? So they could get John Huang a Commerce Department appointment... one that came with a top-secret security clearance.
Timperlake and Triplett gather together an astonishing--and largely convincing--mass of evidence that the Clinton-Gore administration "has made a series of Faustian bargains and policy blunders that have allowed a hostile power to further its aims in Washington." In addition to the potential security breach represented by Huang, they document numerous policy decisions that risk strengthening the technological and military power of Communist China, power that might well be used against the United States in the future.
The Wall Street Journal, Michael Ledeen
Year of the Rat is a sharp polemic that does what Sen. Fred Thompson's hearings failed to do: show Chinese penetration of the American political elite.
Al Santoli, Author of Everything We Had and Leading The Way. Editor of the weekly "China Reform Monitor," for the American Foreign Policy Council
America's survival in the coming Century in the shadow of China's rapid nuclear and space-based weapons modernization program, built largely with Western technology and know-how, has yet to be fully understood by American policy-makers and the general public.
A clarion call to action is clearly documented in the YEAR OF THE RAT, a thoroughly documented and important new book by Congressional investigators and former Defense
Department officials, Edward Timperlake and illiam Triplett. They describe in painstaking detail how members of the American business community and foreign agents of the Chinese military-industrial vanguard have used massive political donations to facilitate the build-up China's first-strike capabilities through influencing White House policies on export controls and other national security safeguards.
While Capitol Hill and the American media was transfixed on the Presiden t's dalliances with young women, Timperlake and Triplett, who have a combined fifty years of service in American national security agencies, collected information from recently declassified U.S. Government documents and traveled to China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, combing through records and documents related to key Donor-Gate personalities. In colorful description, they describe how they used undercover techniques to interview numerous sources with first-hand knowledge of illegal links between the Chinese military- industrial establishment and the Clinton-Gore political campaigns. The tragic consequence is the rapid escalation of China's military into a world-class nuclear, space and information-warfare power.
The influence of the President's Chinese friends on American foreign policy is illustrated by an incident involving the down-and-out "Little Rock restauranteur" Charlie Trie during the March, 1996 crisis involving Chinese communist missiles fired toward Taiwan. Following the deployment of U.S. aircraft carriers to the region, Trie showed up in Washington, delivering $460,000 to the President Clinton's Legal Defense Fund -- and a letter, delivered to the White House, regarding the Taiwan crisis. The provocative letter stated, in part [verbatim], "Any negative outcomes of the U.S. decision in the China issue will affect your administration position, especially in the campaign year... If the U.S. recognizes "one China" policy, don't such conduct will cause a conflict for intervening in China's internal affairs?..."
In response, the Clinton National Security Council drafted a letter to Trie, assuring the communist Chinese that the aircraft carriers were simply a "redeploymnet," and "not intended as a threat to the PRC."
Charlie Trie, as the authors found in Asia, is member of a Chinese Tria d crime gang that has close ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Trie's money contact in Macau, who wired more than $1 million to Trie's U.S. account, most of which is believed to have ended up in Clinton
Defense Fund and Democratic Party campaign offers, is Ng Lapseng, a Triad mobster and Chinese communist official. In fact, Ng visited the White House and attended a number of Democratic Party fund-raisers in Washington, sitting next to President Clinton at some events.
In some respects, Clinton owes his presidency to his closest Asian frien ds, ethic-Chinese
Indonesian bankers Mokthar and James Riady have billions of dollars in investments in China. In 1992, with the Clinton campaign broke and reeling from the Jennifer Flowers scandal, the Riady's persuaded the rkansas-based Worthen Bank, of which their Lippo Bank was a part
owner, to issue a $3.5 million letter of credit to the Clinton campaign. In addition, James Riady and his wife donated $450,000 that year, making them the largest private donors to the Clinton-Gore campaign.
Who are the Riady's? The authors cite a CIA report to the U.S. Senate , that states, in part: "James and Mochtar Riady have a long-term relationship with a Chinese intelligence agency. The relationship is based on mutual benefit... the Chinese intelligence agency seeks to locate
and develop relationships with information collectors particularly those with close association to the U.S. government." Within months of Clinton's election, a Riady executive and Democratic party fund-raiser, John Huang, had a Top Secret security clearance, with access to the most sensitive CIA information on China. Huang was issued the security clearance five months before working for Ron Brown at the Commerce Department. Incredibly, Huang maintained the clearance after he left the dministration to do full time fund-raising at the Democratic National
Committee.
Timperlake and Triplett further describe how other influential American and foreign corporate donors to the Democratic Party, some of whom are directly or indirectly linked to Chinese military and intelligence networks, have influenced Clinton-Gore policies that decimated national security export controls -- despite protests by Pentagon arms-control experts. Citing testimony by highly respected American aeronautical experts, the improvement of Chinese missile performance is shown to be a direct product of negligent Administration oversight of joint U.S.-China high technology programs and satellite launches, that have dramatically improved Chinese nuclear missile accuracy and reliability.
The critical premise of the authors has been validated by the recent rel ease of an explicit Pentagon report to the Congress illustrating how the China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) is developing a range of high technology weapons to destroy American satellites and establish
"capability to establish control of space and to deny access and use of military and commercial space systems in times of crises or war." Equally troubling, the Chinese are ready to test fire a new generation of mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles that can hit the entire Western area of the United States. According to the U.S. National Air Intelligence Center the new DF-31 missiles give China a major first-strike capability, "that will be difficult to counterattack at any stage of its operation, through terminal flight phases." The rocket-motor of the DF-31 was first tested in July 1998, while President Clinton was visiting Beijing. Although U.S. intelligence was
fully aware of incident, citing it as a political test," the Clinton Administration failed to raise the issue. YEAR OF THE RAT is must-reading to understand why thebetrayal of American national security is the most dangerous and tragic legacy of the Clinton-Gore era.
Synopsis
In this explosive book, two veteran congressional investigators deliver detailed evidence of the most shocking Clinton scandal expose to date: How Bill Clinton compromised American security for Chinese money.
The publisher, Mary Hewitt, Regnery Publishing, mhewitt@eaglepub.com , October 19, 1998 Year of the Rat shows how deep the China connection goes.
Year of the Rat uses unique insight and provides an in-depth investigation of President Clinton
and Vice President Al Gore's sellout of U.S. national security to China for campaign cash.
Year of the Rat contains new information and developments. The book details the sources of
illegal Chinese money supplied to the Clinton-Gore campaigns; it raises questions about
Chinese activities on Wall Street; and it takes a systematic look at how the Chinese acquire U.S. military intelligence.
Year of the Rat goes beyond where the time-limited Senate and House hearings ended, connects all the players and places, and convincingly shows how the Clinton-China connection threatens American security. In writing Year of the Rat, veteran Capitol Hill investigators
Edward Timperlake and William Triplett II used new information, recently unclassified documents, undercover techniques, and interviews with dozens of witnesses.
Customer Comments
Average Customer Review: Number of Reviews: 51
A reader from Redmond, Washington, USA , March 1, 1999 A must read to see the Real Clinton.
This book documents the corruption of Clinton on an international scale. I highly recommend buying this for any of your friends who doubt who the real Clinton is.
A reader from United States, Pennsylvania , March 1, 1999 The Year of the Rat was an eye opener
The book was very detailed , They made everthing fit into place, The authors did a great job putting that puzzle together. Year of the Rat made more sense then anything i have read thusfar.It showed how easliy we can be sold out if we keep our blinders on. Frightening to know we have a man like that sitting in the oval office. He needs to be removed. Although i firmly beleive they will have to carry him out screaming and kicking. The man doesnt have a
conscious when it comes to Power
A reader from Cleveland, OH , February 23, 1999
A bit didactic...
...but the evidence was compelling.
Too bad the treatment was so heavy-handed. I had to plod through it.
The arguments and research are thorough and clear. The conclusions reached are rational and well-supported.
I think the book was written for cynics.
A reader from Indianapolis, Indiana , February 22, 1999 The Manchurian Candidate lives.
I thought the movie "Manchurian Candidate" was fiction, but he lives---today--in the White House. Enough said.
aloharonnie@webtv.net from Chino, CA, USA , February 16, 1999
RONNIE GUYER #2 - L.B. NAVY BASE FALLS!
THE YEAR OF THE RAT's Chapter 13 documents the turning of the U.S. LONG BEACH NAVY BASE into a Red Chinese Container Yard with Russian Rockets for China Cash
flowing through the Oval Office and Hillary's palms. Against the Will of the People and Congress Long Beach Mayor Beverly O'Neill, a friend of Hillary, has bombed the Navy Base...as of this moment IT IS FLAT. The People are seeking a remedy to Restore the Navy Base, thru Voter Initiative. 2 years ago I was present at a Court forced Navy Base Hearing where the first spontaneous IMPEACH CLINTON rally occured in our history. On Impeachment Vote Day, Feb 12, 1999, there are TEARS FOR AMERICA. The Souls of our Hero Dead and Wounded Souldiers I carried from Helicopter to Helicopter in the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley, fighting for the FREEDOM OF OTHERS, are weeping as they now see us LOSING OURS. THE YEAR OF THE RAT IS RIGHT, RIGHT ON. WE JUST DO NOT WANT TO BE DEAD RIGHT! Mayor O'Neill has made sure that the U.S. LONG BEACH
NAVY BASE is unusable for our citizens and military. Now Red China is licking it's chops over TAIWAN. I guess CLINTON's 60's trip to Russia's KGB HQ is bearing it's fruit. THE YEAR OF THE RAT IS VERY, VERY REAL, FOLKS.
A reader from (I'm not sure if I should say this...) , February 15, 1999 I never did trust him - NEVER.
He's a PIG and always will be. In my opinion, he's the worst leader that this country has ever had in the past century. He lied about his affairs - which is NOT a good example to show our nation's children... and now this!!! This scandal is terrible. You know what - I'm going to say
that I HAT... no - nevermind - I just STRONGLYDISLIKE him...
By the way, this is a great book describing how much of a pig our President is. All of those who defend him and condone his pig-like actions must read it. Their feeble minds are being filled with "HOGwash."
adrook from Atlanta, GA , February 14, 1999
Fantastic reading. Shocking, frightening, sickening. This book provides insight into the Clinton administration beyond the smokescreen of the Lewinsky mess. In our collective national apathy following the fall of Soviet communism we have all but ignored the potential threat that the Chinese communist state poses to America. If only a fraction of what comprises this analysis is factual, and indeed I believe that to be the case considering the sources, documentation, and careful reporting of the authors, we may be in grave peril in the near future due to the abuses and negligence of the current administration.
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