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

To: Les H who wrote (44962)	4/30/1999 11:23:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

You mean this URL, Les? nytimes.com ? The scientist, Wen Ho Lee, deleted more than 1,000 files containing millions of lines of classified computer codes related to nuclear weapons from the computer system at Los Alamos National Laboratory after the lie detector test in February. American officials say one of the questions on the test, on which he was shown to be deceptive, related to his computer use at Los Alamos, where he worked since 1978. I guess it was really Jimmy Carter's fault, though Reagan-Bush had 12 years to ferret this guy out. So the Occam's razor conservative line would be, I guess, that Johnny Huang paid off Clinton so Clinton could personally intervene to make sure that nobody looked too closely at Lee, before he got all those dusty deck Cray Fortran programs out the door. And Clinton no doubt had somebody mess up that article for you, too. And this, of course, makes Clinton as bad as Hitler. This is worse than Aldrich Ames, pulled in on Clinton's watch, though all of the damage and betrayed agents went down in the Reagan-Bush years. But Ames was no doubt Clinton's fault, too, or the liberals or something. In an interesting little sidebar link, we have this blast from the past: nytimes.com The Bush Administration lifted sanctions against China's transfer of high technology today after accepting its promise to abide by restrictions on the sale of missiles and missile technology to the Middle East. The decision was pushed by the White House and the State Department despite recent intelligence reports that China is continuing to sell missile technology to Syria, Iran and Pakistan and nuclear technology to Iran, according to some senior Administration officials and lawmakers. Lifting the sanctions, which prevented the sale of American satellite parts and high-speed computers to China, is important because it removes the obstacle to China's signing of the Missile Technology Control Regime, a 1987 international agreement restricting the export of missiles and missile technology. In November, Beijing promised Secretary of State James A. Baker that it would adhere to the agreement if Washington lifted the sanctions. Shoot, maybe the Chinese even have a Cray or two to run those dusty decks on. If they don't, they'd probably be better off writing the code from scratch, by the time they got done porting it to run on something faster than those old Crays, that cost tens of thousands of dollars rather that tens of millions. Now all they got to do is build an ICBM and SLBM fleet to match ours and we'll have MAD again. The Chinese have shown a really propensity to spend whatever it takes on the military, regardless of what it does to their economic development.