-Caveat Lector- The Clinton Gang plots to tap your phone and to allow the Chinese Police to tap everyone's phone. flw UNDERNEWS By Sam Smith March 17, 1999 The Progressive Review 1739 Conn. Ave. NW Washington DC 20009 202-232-5544 Fax: 202- 234-6222 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://prorev.com THE CHINA CLIPPER & OTHER HORROR STORIES Charles Smith of the journal Softwar, who tracks the links between politics, trade, and technology, has shed new and disturbing light on the Clinton administration's China dealings. Based in part on his extensive Freedom of Information discovery, Smith outlines this chronology: -- In 1992 ATT comes up with a tap-proof phone. The government sees the device as a security threat. -- Webster Hubbell is assigned by Janet Reno to deal with the secure phone issue. Documents relating to Hubbell are still being withheld on national security grounds, others are so censored that even their classification level is blacked out. -- Assistant Attorney General Colgate writes Hubbell: "AT&T has developed a Data Encryption Standard product for use on telephones to provide security for sensitive conversations. The FBI, NSA and NSC want to purchase the first production run of these devices to prevent their proliferation. They are difficult to decipher and are a deterrent to wiretaps." -- In 1993, Webster Hubbell arranges to buy the entire production run of secure AT&T phones using a slush fund filled by drug war confiscations. -- Part of the plan is to refit the phones with a new chip called Clipper that has been developed by NSA. This chip allows the government to tap the phone using a special key. -- A supply of these refitted phones is given to the Drug Enforcement Agency. Now other government agencies can tap the DEA. -- The plan also mandates Clipper chips for all American telephones. According to the Colgate memo to Hubbell, "FBI, NSA and NSC want to push legislation which would require all government agencies and eventually everyone in the U.S. to use a new public- key based cryptography method." --- According to a 1993 White House email from George Tenet, Ron Brown insisted the Commerce Dept. be one of the "key holders" for all Clipper phones. The Clipper plan will eventually put on hold because of a large public outcry. -- ATT says it is wants to distribute a limited version of its secure phone until the Clipper chip plan is ready. -- In April 1994, Hubbell resigns from the Justice Department under allegations of fraud. By late June 1994, Lippo boss James Riady meets with John Huang, Webster Hubbell and Bill Clinton during five days of White House visits. Early the next week, a Lippo unit pays Hubbell the first $100,000 of what is reported to be over a half million dollars. -- Two weeks after the Lippo money is given to Hubbell, former Lippo banker Huang gets a job at the Commerce Department as Assistant Secretary. Huang's position determines technology transfers to such places as Indonesia and China. Huang is briefed 37 times on encryption communications by the CIA while working at the Commerce Department. Immediately after each briefing, Huang walks across the street to the Lippo/Stephens Group offices and to make long distance phone calls and send faxes to points unknown. Huang and his wife will subsequently take the Fifth Amendment and refuse to testify at Senate Congressional hearings. -- In 1994, with administration approval, ATT sells its secure communications system to the Chinese Army. The export is called "Hua Mei." Thus the Chinese Army gets the secure communications equipment that the American public can't. -- Clinton also authorizes a Chinese Army lab to obtain designs similar to the Clipper chip. The exchange is done in the guise of law enforcement cooperation between the Department of justice and the Chinese police. Writes Charles Smith: "Bill Clinton and Janet Reno have given the Communists the ability to track every Chinese citizen." In short, the Clinton administration: -- refused to let ATT sell an untappable phone to American citizens -- allowed ATT to sell this technology to the Chinese Army -- attempted to mandate a quick-tap chip for all American phones, one whose use would be partly controlled by Ron Brown and the Commerce Department -- provided the DEA with phones that others in the government could tap -- sold the quick-tap chip technology to the Chinese police. DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. 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