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

To: Les H who wrote (38602)	3/15/1999 11:43:00 PM
From: JBL	Respond to of 67261

Wang Jun •Charlie Trie arranged for Wang Jun, chairman of Poly Technologies Inc., an international Chinese weapons dealer, to meet with Clinton at a Democrat Party event at the White House on Feb. 6, 1996. At the time Clinton met with Wang, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) and the Customs Service were wrapping up an investigation which caught Wang's company smuggling 2,000 illegal AK-47 assault weapons worth at least $4 million, destined for gang members in California. Wang's Poly Technologies Inc., is owned and run by the Communist Chinese People's Liberation Army. (sources: The New Republic, 1/20/97; Chicago Tribune, 1/5/97; The New York Times, 12/27/96) •The next day after Wang Jun's coffee with Clinton, investment banker and Jun acquaintance Ernest Green, formerly of Little Rock, contributed $50,000 in his wife's name (Phyllis) to the Democrat National Committee (DNC). Green was a major player in fund-raising for Clinton/Gore's 1996 re-election campaign. At the State Department, Wang's visa file contains letters of invitation from Ernest Green and Charlie Trie. When confronted by the press about Jun's visit, Clinton conceded that Jun was a "clearly inappropriate" guest to have at the White House. (sources: The Detroit News, 2/16/97; Los Angeles Times, 3/5/97)

To: Les H who wrote (38602)	3/16/1999 12:20:00 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

FYI - Steve Forbes chat - 10am EST Tuesday. cnn.com

To: Les H who wrote (38602)	3/16/1999 1:54:00 AM
From: JBL	Respond to of 67261

McCain blasts U.S. foreign policy under Clinton Associated Press 8.19 p.m. ET (120 GMT) March 15, 1999 By David Miles, MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain on Monday charged that U.S. foreign policy is marred by incoherence, leaving the country vulnerable to aggression from China and without a long-term strategy for dealing with North Korea and Iraq. President Clinton's diplomacy is characterized by "spasmodic, vacillating and reactive approaches to world problems,'' the Republican Arizona senator said while delivering the first major foreign policy speech of his emerging campaign for the White House. Clinton's disjointed foreign policy is most evident in America's relationship with China, McCain told an audience of about 800 people at Kansas State University. The administration has sacrificed national security for the sake of engaging China, he contended, and he assailed the "strangely relaxed attitude'' toward allegations that China stole classified nuclear weapons design information from the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He also criticized the transfer of satellite technology to China, saying it may be linked to allegedly improper Chinese contributions to Clinton's 1996 presidential campaign. "If it is proven beyond a reasonable doubt, it will bring more of history's shame upon the president than his personal failings will,'' McCain said. McCain said North Korea's nuclear ambitions represent the "greatest, most immediate danger to the United States and our closest allies in Asia.'' But he said the United States has procrastinated in coming up with a strategy toward North Korea, allowing that country to maintain its nuclear weapons program and improve its missile technology. McCain said America's relationship with Iraq lacks coherence as well. He advocated a "rogue state rollback'' policy in which the United States would support forces trying to overthrow regimes in nations like Iraq and North Korea. However, McCain, who spent more than five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, said America should pursue diplomacy before resorting to force. "The terrible losses incurred in war were once an experience so intensely personal that I will remember them all of my life,'' said McCain, whose military honors include the Silver Star and Purple Heart. "There is no decision with greater meaning or that should be made with greater reluctance than the president's decision to send Americans into conflict,'' he said. At a news conference following the speech, McCain said he planned to announce soon whether he would run for president, but he did not indicate a date.