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

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (48466)	5/19/1999 8:52:00 PM
From: JBL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Michelle, I'd like you to read the following so you can see Clinton's hypocrisy in this gun debate. Wang Jun, Gun Control Czar? Investor's Business Daily 19 May 1999 Editor There's no good reason for a child to own an AK-47,'' President Clinton said last week while pushing his kiddie gun control bill. Just as there's no good reason for a U.S. president to entertain the head of a communist entity that sells AK-47s to kids, right? Don't expect an answer from Clinton. He did just that on Feb. 6, 1996. His fund-raising pal, Charlie Trie, had invited Beijing arms dealer Wang Jun to one of Clinton's famous fund- raising ''coffees'' in the White House Map Room. Wang is the son of China's former vice president. He also runs Polytechnologies, an arms dealership owned by Poly Group, which is owned directly by China's People's Liberation Army. In May 1996, agents of Wang's dealership and another Chinese arms company, Norinco, were arrested for trying to smuggle AK- 47s into the U.S. for sale to drug gangs. Polytechnologies manned a ship owned by COSCO - China's shipping company - carrying 2,000 of the assault rifles. U.S. Customs agents seized the cargo in the Oakland, Calif., port. The weapons reportedly were bound for Los Angeles street gangs. When the press put the events together in 1997, the White House said only that Wang's White House visit was ''clearly inappropriate'' - as if he slipped in by mistake. But Wang was escorted by one of Clinton's old Arkansas pals. Among other things, Trie was the top donor to the Clintons' legal defense fund - that is, until trustees deemed his cash too dirty to keep. But here's what makes the idea that Wang was just a random guest really hard to swallow. Shortly after the White House meeting with Clinton, Trie escorted Wang across 14th Street to the Commerce Department. There, he met with Commerce Secretary Ron Brown - and John Huang, as we now know from court-ordered depositions. Why the high-level meeting? We don't know: The late Brown can't talk; Huang won't talk. And Clinton's Justice Department has Trie under wraps for minor, unrelated campaign fraud charges. In 1995, Clinton personally signed off on Huang's move to the Democratic National Committee from Commerce, where he had access to top-secret U.S. intelligence on China. Huang, raised at least $1.5 million in dirty money for the Clinton-Gore re-election effort. He's also an old Clinton crony. They met on an Arkansas trade mission to Asia in 1985. Clinton's never been pressed on his ties to Wang. Of the 103 so-called coffees, Clinton told the press they were just ''respectful hearings'' for citizens. First off, Wang's not a citizen. Second, what could the president possibly hear and respect from the chief dealer for the world's No. 1 arms proliferator? Unless it's the sound of money dropping into his campaign coffers. In 1996, Clinton also lobbied on behalf of COSCO in its unsuccessful efforts (Congress blocked the deal) to lease the Long Beach Naval Station, which would have in effect given the Chinese Navy - and an arms smuggler - a U.S. beachhead. But that was then - and Clinton hopes we all have short memories. Last week, he held a White House summit called ''Youth, Violence and Responsibility,'' which capped Clinton's multi-city campaign in the wake of the Colorado school shootings to raise our consciousness about the perils of youth violence and guns. Oh, now he cares.