-Caveat Lector- NY Times "reporters" Gerth, Johnson and Van Natta shill for Justice Dept Clinton Chinagate Coverup. flw New York Times Prints DOJ Cover Story for Chinagate News Analysis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- By MARVIN LEE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- The book "The Year of the Rat: How Bill Clinton Compromised U.S. Security for Chinese Cash" by Edward Timperlake and William C. Triplett II, published October 1998, has already reached 85,000 printed copies. For a while it even made the New York Times bestseller list. That is a serious problem to the White House and the Justice Department, for it makes a clear and compelling case that Bill Clinton, starting in 1992, sold foreign policy and access to military technology to the Chinese Communists in return for the campaign cash he needed to attain and hold the office of President. This thesis is in stark contrast to the Justice Department version, which interestingly coincides with the DNC and White House versions. This version holds that the White House and the DNC were innocent victims of Chinese bag men who were tricking them into accepting massive illegal campaign contributions from China. This is the strategy that has been pursued by the Justice Department's Task Force on Campaign Finance over the past two years: it has prosecuted and secured convictions of the Chinese "bag men" for illegal donations but cleared the recipients of any wrongdoing. Never mind that the judge at the sentencing of bag man Johnny Chung last week expressed puzzlement over Justice Department prosecution strategy when he declared "It's very strange that the giver pleads guilty and the givee gets off free." The book by Timperlake and Triplett has threatened to blow the lid off this cover-up strategy. So the Justice Department's Campaign Finance Task Force has gone to the New York Times for assistance. A story by Jeff Gerth, David Johnston, and Don Van Natta last Tuesday peppered a verbatim presentation of the Clinton Administration line with new revelations about the evil bag men and their misdeeds. Citing anonymous Justice Department "senior officials," and "investigators," the story offered that "There is no indication that the campaigns or the White House knew that Chinese businesses or officials were behind any of the donations." It took pains to emphasize that "no evidence has surfaced that Administration officials knew about the covert Chinese activities." The New York Times even cited Charlie Trie's lawyer, Reid Weingarten, as saying "he knew nothing of Trie's activities in China." As everyone who has read "The Year of the Rat" knows, this is pure baloney. This is such a misrepresentation of fact that it says more about the intelligence of New York Times readers than it says about what actually transpired. If Clinton and the DNC truly failed to notice that John Huang and Charlie Trie were born in China, perhaps their frequent trips to China and its non-Communist enclaves could have raised their suspicions. As could the letter Charlie Trie sent Bill Clinton warning against interfering in the China-Taiwan dispute. If Clinton didn't know that Trie's $1 million donations came from the Chinese then why did he reverse U.S. policy and declare his support for a Communist Chinese takeover of Taiwan? If none of this led any of the participants to suspect that China was behind the contributions, perhaps Webster Hubbell could have told them that the $100,000 hush money he received from John Huang was wired from the Hong Kong Chinese Bank. Or perhaps the fact that Ng Lapseng, on his many visits to the White House, was carrying suitcases full of cash brought in from Macau, could have given the plot away. If Clinton had no idea that the Chinese were pumping massive amounts of cash into his campaign, then why did the White House lobby directly for giving the Long Beach Naval Station to COSCO? Did the White House have no idea that Hongye Zheng was a senior COSCO advisor when he accompanied Johnny Chung to the White House? Was Clinton oblivious to the fact that Wang Jun was the chairman of the Chinese military industrial complex Poly Technologies when he accompanied bag man Charlie Trie to the White House? If not, then why did Clinton, in the era of assault weapons bans, grant waivers for 100,000 semi-automatic weapons from Poly Technologies to be sold in the U.S.? Did Clinton still have no idea of the role of China when bag man Johnny Chung brought his backer, Lieut. Col. Liu Chaoying, a Chinese military officer, with him to the White House to meet Clinton? This is just a sampling of the circumstantial evidence that can be offered to support the notion that the White House knew and that there was a direct quid pro quo. The fact that articles of impeachment for treason have not yet been brought in this matter is a reflection of the fact that the Justice Department version controls the mainstream media. Conservative Republicans who smell a rat have had to print a book to get their story out. As long as the mainstream media have a substantially larger audience than Triplett and Timperlake, the cover-up may succeed. Edward Timperlake, William C. Triplett II: The Year of the Rat: How Bill Clinton Compromised U.S. Security for Chinese Cash In these pages we will show that, in order to gain and hold onto power, the Clinton administration has acted recklessly, allowing the wrong people to gain access to our most important political and economic secrets. Any number of Chinese arms dealers, spies, narcotics traffickers, gangsters, pimps, accomplishes to mass murder, communist agents, and other undesirables will appear in these pages, all associated in one way or another with the White House and money... (Regnery publ. 256 pages. October 1998) Read more about this book. See other books/videos for sale. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Published in the Dec. 21, 1998 issue of The Washington Weekly. Copyright � 1998 The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com). Reposting permitted with this message intact. DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! 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