Well Rimmy, there is
a just a little bit of it that can be documented. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif None of the quotes I've provided are anywhere close to complete, just enough to give a sense of what the links cover. Follow the links for the complete story.
Source Kind of looks puny compared to the 13 million (that they could find) in Chinese Red Army money given to Clinton/Gore in '96, doesn't it. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
The China Connection
Liu
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Liu Chaoying, the daughter of a powerful Chinese military official, is also the vice president for international trade of Casil, a Hong Kong company that is controlled by the state-owned China Aerospace Corp.
Liu became part of the ongoing campaign finance investigations after Johnny Chung, who recently reached a plea bargain agreement with the Justice Department, told investigators that he received $300,000 from Liu, at least $35,000 of which he turned around and contributed to U.S. political campaigns.
Senate Report Note the disclaimer that the report does not include the classified portions etc. Also note that there was evidence that the Chinese gave money to Clinton in the '92 election, but Janet Reno stonewalled any investigation until after the statute of limitations had run out.
In addition, the $13 million they were able to trace is likely just the tip of the iceberg as they point out in the Senate report.
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"From its earliest stages, the Committee’s investigation uncovered instances of political
contributions made with foreign money. Either contributing or soliciting this money have been individuals with business or political ties to the PRC, who have escorted PRC officials and businessmen to meetings with President Clinton and Vice President Gore...
Although hampered by time constraints and spotty cooperation from some federal agencies, the Committee has gathered significant information. The Committee determined...that the PRC government fashioned a plan before the 1996 elections and that its goal was to influence our political process, ostensibly through stepped-up lobbying efforts and also funding from Beijing. Over time, the plan evolved and the PRC engaged in much more than simply “lobbying.” Indeed, discussions took place and actions were taken that suggest more than the original plan was being executed, and that a variety of PRC entities were acting to influence U.S. elections...
But the Committee has learned that Beijing expected more than simply increased lobbying from its diplomatic posts in the U.S. Indeed, as the Committee examined the issue in greater detail, it found a broad array of Chinese efforts designed to influence U.S. policies and elections through, among other means, financing election campaigns.
James and Mochtar Riady. The Committee has learned from recently-acquired information that James and Mochtar Riady have had a
long-term relationship with a Chinese intelligence agency...
...the Committee understands that the Chinese intelligence agency seeks to locate and develop relationships with information collectors, particularly persons with close connections to the U.S. government.
The Riadys are central figures in the campaign finance scandal for several reasons. First, they have close ties with President Clinton.
James and Mochtar Riady have known President Clinton since the mid-1980s The Riadys have visited Clinton in the White House on several occasions. Second, the Riadys were heavy contributors to the DNC and other Democratic causes.
They made and solicited significant contributions directly in connection with the 1992 elections;
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Mr. Huang met with the President and others at the White House 10 times between June 21 and June 27, 1994, and, right after that, Mr. Webb Hubbell, who was about to be indicted by a Federal grand jury, received $100,000 from the Lippo Group.
Shortly after this money was given to Mr. Hubbell, Mr. Huang got a job at the Commerce Department as Assistant Secretary. Huang's job at the Commerce Department was a very influential position because he had a hand in determining technology transfers that went to Communist China and exclusive trade deals with Indonesia's corrupt dictatorship. It is known that Huang met 37 times with the CIA during his tenure at the Commerce Department.
John Huang pleaded guilty in 1999 to Federal charges of making illegal political contributions to the Clinton/Gore campaign.
Huang also cited his Fifth Amendment rights over 2,000 times when asked if he was acting as an agent for the Chinese Army.
Schwartz/Missle guidance tech
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At issue: Whether Loral and Hughes Electronics Corp. helped improve China's missile guidance systems by analyzing a failed 1996 satellite launch in China; and whether the White House's decision this year to grant Loral a waiver for another satellite launch in China was granted on account of Shwartz's donations.
Loral/Schwartz/Missle tech
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Last February, Clinton approved the company's request to launch a commercial telecommunications satellite aboard a Chinese rocket, choosing to side with the State Department's assessment of the launch as "in the national interest" rather than with Justice Department concerns that approval would interfere with an ongoing criminal investigation. Justice was – and still is – looking into whether Loral and another company provided unauthorized assistance to China's ballistic missile program after an unsuccessful previous launch.
Supercomputers
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The Clinton administration decided to allow the export of high-performance computers with processing speeds between 12,500 and 28,000 MTOPS (millions of operations per second), claiming the new rules would "promote national security" while easing "the unnecessary burdens on both government and industry." But according to recent studies sponsored by the U.S. Commerce and Defense Departments, computers operating at these speeds will give the biggest boost to foreign nuclear and missile makers
Computers
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Supercomputers (some possibly diverted to military use)
--Two supercomputers to the China Academy of Sciences (CAS) from Silicon Graphics, Inc. (1996)
--One supercomputer to the the Computer Institute of the University of Science and Technology for National Defense in Changsha, Hunan, Province, from Sun Microsystems (1996)
--46 supercomputers total since early 1996
Congressional Research Service ˜ The Library of Congress-Red China Nuclear espionage
Note that it took almost 2 years after the espionage became public for the Clinton administration to do
anything about security at the labs, even to re-institute security checks for foreign scientists. Maybe the Chinese hadn't gotten everything they wanted yet?? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
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This CRS Report discusses China’s suspected acquisition of U.S. nuclear
weapon secrets, including that on the W88, the newest U.S. nuclear warhead. This
serious controversy became public in early 1999 and raised policy issues about
whether U.S. security was further threatened by China’s suspected use of U.S.
nuclear weapon secrets in its development of nuclear forces, as well as whether the
Administration’s response to the security problems was effective or mishandled and
whether it fairly used or abused its investigative and prosecuting authority. The
Clinton Administration acknowledged that improved security was needed at the
weapons labs but said that it took actions in response to indications in 1995 that
China may have obtained U.S. nuclear weapon secrets. Critics in Congress and
elsewhere argued that the Administration was slow to respond to security concerns,
mishandled the too narrow investigation, downplayed information potentially
unfavorable to China and the labs, and failed to notify Congress fully.
On April 7, 1999, President Clinton gave his assurance that partly “because of
our engagement, China has, at best, only marginally increased its deployed nuclear
threat in the last 15 years” and that the strategic balance with China “remains
overwhelmingly in our favor.” On April 21, 1999, Director of Central Intelligence
(DCI) George Tenet, reported the Intelligence Community’s damage assessment. It
confirmed that “China obtained by espionage classified U.S. nuclear weapons
information that probably accelerated its program to develop future nuclear
weapons.” It also revealed that China obtained information on “several” U.S. nuclear
reentry vehicles, including the Trident II submarine-launched missile that delivers the
W88 nuclear warhead as well as “a variety of” design concepts and weaponization
features, including those of the neutron bomb.
On May 25, 1999, the House’s Cox Committee reported that China stole
classified information on the W88 and six other U.S. nuclear warheads. On June 15,
1999, the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) called the
Department of Energy a “dysfunctional bureaucracy” and urged the creation of a
semi-autonomous or independent agency to oversee nuclear weapons. In September
1999, Congress passed the FY2000 National Defense Authorization Act to create a
National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) within DOE on March 1, 2000.
China/Iran
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China’s security relationship with Iran is broad. Despite over a decade of protests from Washington, China continues to export nuclear technology, chemical weapons precursors, and guided missiles to Iran.
Chni/N.Korea
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North Korea was not left all alone in its effort to obtain nuclear weapons. North Korea relied heavily on China, its closest ally, to assist in its all-out effort to obtain the atomic bomb.
U.S. Pays for Clinton-Riady-China Connection
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Bill Clinton shares a close financial relationship with Moctar Riady, the Indonesian billionaire owner of Lippo Group. According to testimony before Sen. Fred Thompson, the Lippo Group is in fact a joint venture of China Resources, a trading and holding company "wholly owned" by the Chinese communist government and used as a front for espionage operations.
Adaro is a Lippo group company, you know the conglomerate that's mostly owned by Riady and the Red Army.
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envirocoal™ is mined by P.T. Adaro Indonesia and represented in the western hemisphere by Adaro Envirocoal Americas.
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The Monument was declared in September, 1996 at the height of the 1996 presidential election campaign by President Bill Clinton, and was controversial from the moment of creation. The declaration ceremony was held at Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, and not in the state of Utah. The Utah congressional delegation and state governor were notified only 24 hours in advance...
Many people in Utah were very upset when Bill Clinton declared the Grand Staircase-Escalante area as a National Monument...
Monument designation also nixed the Andalex Coal Mine...
I could go on, but why?
I can already hear you parrotting the Dem mantra, "There's no absolute proof", and you/they are right, there isn't. There is considerably more evidence than it's taken to send people to the electric chair on though.
I don't think Clinton was a Chinese spy, But I think he would legally qualify as a Chinese "agent of influence". There is every indication that the Chinese Red Army heavily influenced (and maybe bought) both the '92 and '96 elections with the eager cooperation of the President and Vice President of the United States.
Want a good comparison of the GOP and the DNC in general?
There were a number of people who were
giving Chinese Red Army money that were convicted, but not one of the people who
took the Chinese money, not even the campaign workers who actually recieved it, got in any trouble. That was the "work" of the Clinton Democrat Justice Dept.
Contrast that with the convictions in the much smaller Abramoff scandal. That's the Bush Republican Justice Dept.
Yeah, let's compare them. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
