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<A HREF="http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a36ee156f04cc.htm">CHINA�S THEFT OF
NUCLEAR SECRETS</A>

Office of U.S. Senator James M. Inhofe (R-Oklahoma)
U.S. SENATOR JAMES M. INHOFE (R-OKLAHOMA)
http://www.senate.gov/~inhofe/

Senate Floor Statement
March 15, 1999

Mr. President, I want you to listen. I am going to tell you a
story of espionage, conspiracy, deception and cover-up�a story
with life and death implications for millions of Americans�a
story about national security and a President and an
administration that deliberately chose to put national security
at risk, while telling the people everything was fine.

If it was written in a book, it wouldn�t sell, because no one
would believe it. If it was fictionalized in a novel, few could
conceive it.  But it is true.

Now for the sake of my statement today, I am stating that the
President withheld information and covered up the Chinese theft
of our technology.  But I�m realistic enough to know that a
person with the history of deception this president has will have
provided himself with some cover in case he gets caught. So I�m
sure there is a paper trail that he can allege. The way the
President probably covered himself was to include tidbits about
this theft buried in briefings on 40 or 50 others items, so the
significance of it would not be noticed. But a paper trail would
be established.

Anticipating that, I talked to the chairman of the House
Intelligence Committee, Rep. Porter Goss, and the Chairman of the
Senate Intelligence Committee at the time of the discovery of
this information, Sen. Arlen Specter. Neither chairman was
notified of the W-88 nuclear warhead technology theft. And these
would have been the first to be notified.  There can be no doubt
that President Clinton engaged in a cover up scheme.

Let me read three paragraphs from last week�s op-ed article by
Michael Kelly in the Washington Post, entitled �Lies About
China.� �In April 1996, Energy Department officials informed
Samuel Berger, then Clinton�s deputy national security advisor,
that Notra Trulock, the department�s chief of intelligence, had
uncovered evidence that showed China had learned how to
miniaturize nuclear bombs, allowing for smaller, more lethal
warheads...�

�The Times reports that the House Intelligence Committee asked
Trulock for a briefing in July 1998. Trulock asked for permission
from Elizabeth Moler, then acting energy secretary. According to
Trulock, Moler told him not to brief the committee because the
information might be used against Clinton�s China policy...� �The
White House�s secret would have remained secret had it not been
for a select investigative committee headed by Republican
Christopher Cox...� But even using the President�s fictitious
paper trail, the earliest either chairman could have known about
it would have been late spring of 1997, years after the Clinton
administration learned of it and, of course, after the 1996
elections.

I start, Mr. President, by listing a few things which we now know
to be true, factual, incontrovertible...and not classified.

For years, the Clinton administration covered-up China�s theft of
top secret U.S. nuclear weapons data. They never informed the
Congress or American people about what had happened or its
significance to our national security.

Let me tell you what President Clinton did during this period
time:

�During this period of time, the President misled the American
people on numerous occasions about the threat posed by strategic
nuclear missiles in the post cold war era.

�During this period of time, President Clinton made statements on
over 130 separate occasions, such as the following: �For the
first time since the dawn of the nuclear age, there is not a
single solitary nuclear missile pointed at an American child
tonight. Not one. Not a single one.�

�During this period of time, he knew that China was targeting up
to 18 intercontinental ballistic missiles at American children.

�During this period of time, President Clinton signed export
control waivers which allowed his top campaign fundraisers�
aerospace company to transfer sensitive U.S. missile guidance
technology to China.

�During this period of time, he shifted the prime satellite
export responsibility from the State Department to the Commerce
Department, making it easier for China and others to get
sensitive military-related U.S. technology .

�During this period of time, President Clinton hosted over 100
White House fundraisers as part of a larger aggressive scheme to
raise campaign contributions, many from illegal foreign sources,
primarily including sources in China. Among guests permitted to
attend these White House fundraisers were a convicted felon and a
Chinese arms dealer.

�During this period of time, John Huang, Charlie Trie, Johnny
Chung, James Riady and others with strong ties to China were
deeply involved, with the President�s knowledge, in raising
Chinese-tainted campaign cash for the Clinton campaign.

�During this period of time, John Huang, who had been given a
security clearance without a background check, was permitted to
receive numerous classified CIA briefings, both during and after
his stay at the Commerce Department.

--And during this period of time, President Clinton was
successfully stopping the deployment of a national missile
defense system, exposing every American life to a missile attack,
leaving us with no defense against an intercontinental ballistic
missile.

Mr. President, China�s theft of secret data on the so-called
�W-88"  nuclear warhead may be one of the most serious breaches
of national security in our lifetimes.....More serious than
Aldrich Ames. Perhaps more serious than the Rosenbergs.

The public needs to understand that this story is true. This is
not about partisanship. This is not about some ancient history of
some long gone Cold War.

This is about the real world here and now. This is about national
security in its most important aspects. This is about protecting
our freedom and our existence as a nation. This is ultimately a
matter which concerns the life and death of every citizen.

The W-88 is the most advanced nuclear warhead in the U.S. arsenal
and is carried on top of Trident SLBMs (submarine-launched
ballistic missiles).


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