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

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (38719)	3/16/1999 10:36:00 AM
From: John Lacelle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Daniel, I am with you on this one. Having had a security clearance myself at one time, I can tell you that there just is not any credible link between the Whitehouse and Chinese espionage. I do remember that during the briefings we had back in the late 1980's, the Dept. of Industrial Security said that the Chinese were actually the most active country in trying to penetrate defense contractors, not the Soviets as one might think. Probably, this is because the Russians had very high quality weapons labs themselves at the time and really did not need to steal technology. The sad fact of the matter is that the cat came out of the bag and nobody can put the nuclear genie back in the bottle. Everyone wants these weapons. Could you imagine how the course of history might have changed if Saddam Hussain had his hands on 10 or 20 nukes back during the gulf war? Frankly, the only thing that surprises me is that there has not been the military use of nuclear weapons since 1945. I never would have thought we would make it out of this Century without more cities being obliterated for some reason or another. -John

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (38719)	3/16/1999 10:40:00 AM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 67261

Interesting. It now comes to light that Sandy Berger is the one who led the fight w/in the Bubba administration to move decisions on technology transfers to Commerce. Also, when the spy at Los Alamos was first exposed in 1996, it appears the Administration did nothing for almost three years. Interesting, the exposure of the spy coincided with the election year and the massive infusion of Asian dollars into the effort to re-elect Bubba. Finally, visits are one thing but the Bubba admin. changed the rules so that foreign nationals could study and work at Los Alamos, something Bush and Reagan administrations forbid. Sorry, Danny boy looks like ole Bubba sold out for campaign cash. JLA