-Caveat Lector- -----Original Message----- From: Peter L. Sroufe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: American Patriot Friends Network <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Beijing�s Klintoon/Gore Los Alamos Link (Activate Spineless Congress!) by William F. Jasper http://www.jbs.org/ We warned you. The cover-up of Bill Clinton�s Chinagate treachery has come back to haunt us. For over a year, the All-Monica-All-the-Time media smothered Chinagate with a 24-hour-a-day blanket of diversionary, nauseatingly detailed coverage of the Clinton-Lewinsky sexual high jinks. Congress, in its usual, bipartisan, invertebrate style, also dropped the Chinagate bribery and treason charges to chase the Oval Office sex scandal. But we warned you: Treason and its terrible effects do not simply disappear when ignored; damage to national security does not self-heal through benign neglect. As we noted in our special February 15th "Chinagate" issue, the already overwhelming evidence of President Clinton�s massive sellout to Beijing is but the tip of the iceberg. The Clinton Administration has so eviscerated security procedures and opened the floodgates so wide for Red Chinese access to American defense and technology institutions that we are just beginning to learn the true extent of the harm that has been done. More shocking glimpses into the depths of the Chinagate betrayal were provided during the first week of March, as Secretary of State Madeleine Albright dined in Beijing with Red Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan and airily opined that it is "not a good idea to link human rights and trade." Latest Development Claiming to "deplore" the Communist regime�s recent brutal crackdown on China�s dissidents, Secretary Albright announced, nevertheless, that the Clinton Administration would continue to support China�s efforts to join the World Trade Organization. Meanwhile, back in the U.S., the dark reality of China�s "trade" agenda was being starkly revealed in the arrest of a Red Chinese "businessman" who was caught trying to obtain fiber-optic gyroscopes for Beijing�s missile program, and in the firing of a scientist at one of our top weapons laboratories for allegedly providing Beijing with data that has allowed China to make giant leaps in the miniaturization of nuclear warheads. The March 1st arrest of Chinese national Yao Yi by U.S. Customs agents for criminal export violations served as an appropriate backdrop for the Clinton-Albright claptrap about the benefits of U.S. "engagement" with the People�s Republic of China (PRC). Yao was after fiber-optic gyroscopes, the latest in navigational technology and a key component in missiles, "smart" bombs, and fighter jets. Yao�s partner, Collin Xu, a naturalized Canadian citizen, was arrested in February. The pair might have succeeded in acquiring this prized military booty for the PRC had the manufacturer not noticed a detail that raised suspicions and led the company to contact authorities. Except for this vigilance on the part of a private company, the gyroscopes likely would have joined the supercomputers, satellite and missile data, precision machine tools, and the flood of other high-end military technology that the Clinton Administration has transferred to its Red Chinese "partners." Far more alarming than the near miss on the gyroscope deal was the revelation, on March 6th, that a computer scientist working in the nuclear weapons design area of the Los Alamos National Laboratory was suspected of passing data on America�s advanced W-88 warhead to Communist China, enabling the PRC to develop its own state-of-the-art warheads years ahead of schedule. Using these stolen secrets, China, reportedly, has been able to develop much smaller warheads that can be launched on cruise missiles, from undersea submarines, or from an ICBM carrying multiple warheads for multiple targets. The scientist suspected of the espionage, Wen Ho Lee, was taken into custody by the FBI on Friday, March 5th, and then released after three days of questioning. On Monday, March 8th, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson announced that Mr. Lee was being fired for security breaches, but that no criminal charges were being filed against him. That should surprise no one: The Janet Reno Justice Department and Louis Freeh FBI, which can mobilize whole divisions of fervent agents and prosecutors to persecute law-abiding gun owners and pro-lifers, have been singularly impotent when it comes to investigating anything or anyone related to the White House "China connection." Mr. Richardson, whose Department of Energy has responsibility for the Los Alamos lab, stated that Lee was being dismissed for "failure to properly notify Energy Department and laboratory officials about contacts with people from a sensitive country, specific instances of failing to properly safeguard classified material, and apparently attempting to deceive lab officials about security matters." But according to Richardson and Justice officials, there was not sufficient evidence to prosecute Lee or his wife, Sylvia, who was also a lab employee. "As Bad as the Rosenbergs" Paul Redmond, the former CIA counterintelligence chief credited with catching Soviet spy Aldrich Ames, was quoted in the New York Times as saying of China�s Los Alamos espionage: "This was far more damaging to the national security than Aldrich Ames." In fact, according to Redmond, "This is going to be just as bad as the Rosenbergs." But no one, so far, is going to be prosecuted. Nor, apparently, is anyone in the Clinton Administration going to take responsibility for the devastating security lapses at the weapons lab and resign. Sandy Berger, the President�s national security adviser and the official targeted by congressional critics as most responsible for the debacle, reacted with his usual dismissive arrogance. Accompanying President Clinton in Latin America when the story broke, Berger claimed that his actions were "in the national interests and I believe we acted swiftly.�� ��I reject the notion there was any dragging of feet,�� Berger said Really? The facts seem to indicate otherwise. A summary of events by New York Times columnist William Safire notes that in April 1996, "a Department of Energy official informed President Clinton�s deputy national security adviser, Samuel Berger, (1) that China had probably stolen our secrets of making warheads small enough to enable long-range missiles to pack multiple nuclear punches, and (2) that the suspected spy was still at work in the Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico." Writes Safire, "Mr. Berger, who sat in on most of the political meetings with Clinton�s Asian fund-raisers, did nothing. The internal security division of the Department of Justice apparently did not ask a court for wiretap authority under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. At Reno Justice, investigating any Chinese penetration is a no-no. It was not until early 1998 that the concerns led to a presidential directive to raise security and hire more counterintelligence experts at the federal labs holding America�s top nuclear secrets." The Clinton White House not only ignored compelling evidence that the Chinese had made devastating weapons advances through past espionage at Los Alamos, but, claim sources quoted by the New York Times, repeatedly ignored warnings from investigators that "Beijing was continuing to steal secrets from the Government�s major nuclear weapons laboratories." The chief suspect, Wen Ho Lee, not only retained his job, but also his security clearances! And to pile infamy on top of infamy, top Clinton Administration officials engaged in a pattern of obstruction of justice and obstruction of Congress that is all too familiar. According to the Times, Notra Trulock, the Energy Department�s chief of intelligence, "who raised the first alarm about the case in 1995, was ordered last year by senior officials not to tell Congress about his findings because critics might use them to attack the Administration�s China policies, officials said." Indeed, Clinton officials: 1) attempted to discredit warnings by Mr. Trulock; 2) actively covered up the espionage by ordering Trulock not to testify before the House Intelligence Committee; and 3) punished Trulock with demotion after he became a secret star witness at the House select committee hearings on Chinagate headed by Representative Christopher Cox (R-CA). For blowing the whistle on what is, potentially, one of the biggest security breaches in our nation�s history, Notra Trulock has been demoted from chief of intelligence at Energy to acting deputy of the intelligence unit. Vice President Al Gore, the Beijing-Buddha Temple bagman, was the senior Administration official on hand to answer questions about the damaging spy case. Much practiced in the art of denial, Mr. Gore offered up classic Clintonesque responses, denying that the Administration had been slow in responding to the theft which was discovered in 1995. "This happened in the previous Administration, and the law enforcement agencies have pressed it and pursued it aggressively with our full support," Gore said in an interview with CNN. "And in the course of this, what developed was a brand-new presidential directive that fixed problems that we had inherited and changed and vastly improved the procedures in the national laboratory system." In spite of the new allegations, said the Vice President, the Clinton regime would remain committed to its policy of "constructive engagement" with China. "China is the most populous country in the world. Its economy is growing, and its role in the world is going to continue to grow whether we want that or not," he said, offering the usual boilerplate issued in response to any challenge of the Administration�s treasonous China policies. He might have added, in the interests of full disclosure, that China was also the biggest political donor to sluice illegal campaign funds into the Clinton-Gore/DNC coffers in 1992 and 1996. Reagan, Bush Lapses White House spokesman Joe Lockhart likewise tried to shift blame, decrying ��Republican attack politics" and suggesting that it was security lapses in previous Republican administrations that were responsible for the Wen Ho Lee spy losses. Without exonerating in the least the Clintonista claque that sat on the "investigation" for three years, it would be wise for Republicans to acknowledge that there is more than a grain of truth to the charges that both the Reagan and Bush Administrations also were guilty of glaring security failures at our weapons facilities, including Los Alamos. The New American reported on these serious problems repeatedly, and warned that failure to institute tighter security measures would lead to calamitous results. In a 1988 report to the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, the United States General Accounting Office revealed an appalling lack of security at our nation�s main weapons laboratories operated by the Department of Energy. Pursuant to a request from the Senate committee, the GAO had conducted a 21-month investigation of security procedures at three DOE weapons laboratories: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California; Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico; and Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico. The GAO study, issued in October 1988, concluded: "During the 21-month period from January 1986 through September 1987, about 6,700 foreign nationals visited or were assigned to one of these laboratories. About 900 of the visitors were from Communist or other sensitive countries, including those suspected of developing nuclear weapons, such as India, Israel, and Pakistan." DOE Order 1240.2 requires indices checks from appropriate government agencies, such as the FBI and CIA, for all foreigners from Communist or "other sensitive countries" who apply for permission to visit, or conduct research at, the labs. However, according to the GAO report, this procedure was regularly ignored: Even when the security order was followed, "the majority of the checks that are performed are completed after access to the weapons laboratory has occurred." Of 176 cases the GAO reviewed of individuals from Communist countries requiring indices checks, DOE had obtained only six of the completed checks prior to the initiation of the visit or assignment. It received the indices data for an additional 51 individuals either during the visit or after it had been completed. It did not receive any indices checks for 119 of the individuals. Prior to July 1986, Yugoslavia was not even listed as a Communist country in DOE�s order. Thus, individuals from that country did not receive security checks, either. (Apparently spurred by the GAO investigation in progress, the Energy Department reclassified Yugoslavia so that it would come under the guidelines for Communist countries.) The DOE attempted to downplay the seriousness of its abysmal security record by asserting that the visitors from Communist countries did not participate in any "sensitive" projects � an assertion not supported by the GAO report, which said: "We found that foreign visitors from Communist and other sensitive nations have been involved in activities that have been identified as sensitive by DOE�s own criteria, such as lasers, nuclear physics, and particle beams, that could assist countries to develop and produce nuclear weapons." Moreover, "information on classified programs could be derived from available unclassified data or by observing activities at these facilities." As bad as the situation was, security under the new Clinton regime got decidedly worse. The March 10th Wall Street Journal reported that according to Keith O. Fultz, an assistant comptroller general at GAO, in 1993 the Clinton Department of Energy "actually widened the loophole, waiving rules requiring background checks on many visitors from countries known to be involved in nuclear weapons programs. The laboratories said that the stream of foreign scientists, especially from China, put too much of a burden on security officials." "I was surprised when I heard that waivers were granted," the Journal quoted Mr. Fultz as saying. The Clinton waivers, noted the Journal, "produced a surge of unchecked visitors at the Los Alamos lab and at the Sandia National Laboratory, also located at Los Alamos, NM. In the late 1980s there were 67 visitors from China at the three weapons labs, which included Livermore National Laboratory in California. Now there are almost 500, or almost one-third of all foreign scientists." What to Do? At a Capitol Hill press conference on March 11th, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS) blasted the Clinton Administration for inaction in the face of repeated leakage of hi-tech secrets to China. "We found out last year when the technology was transferred through American corporations. Now we find this lax security," Lott told reporters. "What I want to know is what actions are we going to take to stop this kind of misconduct?" And that, Mr. Lott, is exactly what millions of Americans want to know: What are you and your Republican colleagues in the Senate and the House actually going to do? Aside from a lot of heated campaign rhetoric aimed at mollifying the GOP faithful, and several half-hearted congressional investigations, the Republican majority has done precious little to stanch the technology flow to Beijing or bring a full accounting of Clinton�s Chinagate crimes. Earlier revelations concerning illegal transfers of highly sensitive satellite technology to China by Hughes Electronics Corp. and Loral Corp. � big Clinton donors � caused similar eruptions of Republican ire. But no one is likely to be prosecuted and the Republican leadership dropped the issue. Likewise, congressional Republicans stood by and did next to nothing when the Reno Justice Department gave sweetheart deals to Johnny Chung and other key China agents who had free rein at the Clinton White House. Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, announced on March 9th that he would call for emergency hearings on the matter for the week of March 16th. "I think there�s probably a lot more [Red Chinese espionage] going on in America than we realize," he said. "It is frightening. It leads you to ask the question: Was it politically expedient not to pursue information like this? Should it have been pursued in earlier years? Should it have been pursued before now? I�d say yes." Such expressions of concern and conviction are no doubt reassuring to many, but those who have witnessed this song and dance many times before will demand a lot more. Even congressional hearings more often than not merely provide protective cover, giving the appearance that something important is being accomplished when, in reality, the participants are just going through the motions. Many Republicans who have shown themselves less than courageous in pursuing Chinagate thus far are now grabbing hold of the issue as their campaign cause c�l�bre. "China is going to be a big issue in this campaign, including the primary campaign," GOP foreign policy expert Robert Kagan predicted in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. "It�s a core grassroots issue for Republicans. When a candidate goes before a conservative audience, China is an applause line." Got that? For some GOP incumbents and candidates, China is no more than a throwaway "applause line" guaranteed to whoop up conservative rubes. Activate Congress! Undoubtedly, many members of Congress are genuinely pleased that the most recent Chinagate revelations are offering another opportunity to shed light on the grave dangers that Clinton�s treasonous China entente has produced. Some may even take their oath of office seriously enough to doggedly pursue this matter in spite of any positive or negative effects it may have on their campaigns. Let us hope so. But unless the "faithful" let the pols know that they are not going to get any freebie "applause lines" simply for mouthing the China-bashing, anti-Clinton quip of the day, we are certain to see more broken promises and betrayals. Members of Congress must prove by their actions that their rhetoric has meaning. Will they subpoena the crucial evidence and the witnesses, and force those involved to testify and turn over evidence? Will they charge Janet Reno with contempt of Congress, as they threatened to previously, if she again shamelessly obstructs justice to protect her boss and his minions? Will they actually hold accountable those officials who, whether through criminal neglect or treason, have egregiously jeopardized our national security? Will they vote to cut off the massive financial and technical aid that is helping build China�s rapidly growing war machine? Will they finally rectify the terrible absence of security which renders so many of our institutions vulnerable to penetration by agents of foreign powers? Will they send packing the hundreds of Communist scientists who now populate many of our most sensitive facilities? 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