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Not a month after the Norman Hsu flap (and eleven years after the Chinese government supposedly tried to help finance Bill’s reelection), Hillary is on the defensive about taking money from Chinese immigrant benefactors. This time, it looks even more awkward. As the L.A. Times reported late last week, the candidate’s fund-raising swing through the Chinese community of New York resulted in $500 to $2,300 donations from people identified as “dishwashers, waiters and street stall hawkers.” Of the 150 donors on paper, 50 couldn’t be located, and at least one openly says he hasn’t contributed to the campaign. An April...

By Alexander J. Madison – October 15, 2007 Many conservatives across the fruited plain breathed a sigh of relief with the much delayed and much anticipated arrival of Fred Thompson into the official 2008 fray.  The pre-campaign campaign worked quite well.  It generated much buzz in both the blogosphere and the MSM.  Fred's folksy homilies on ABC radio and his Youtube broadcasts also gave him a format to address the issues of the day in his deep, southern, actor-trained voice.  Whether the topic was illegal aliens, Michael Moore, or the Virginia Tech shooting, Fred tossed out red meat to...

(CNSNews.com) - On Tuesday, the day Fred Thompson made his debate debut in the 2008 presidential race, two conservative commentators criticized how the former Tennessee senator handled the 1990s Senate probe into Clinton campaign fundraising corruption. Thompson was chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee in 1997, when the committee probed Chinese money that allegedly poured into the 1996 re-election campaign of President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore. "Had there been a legitimate investigation of Chinese money laundering, the results would have been very different from the results of Monica Lewinsky," said John Gizzi, political editor for Human...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 21 — Norman Hsu, the fund-raiser for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and other Democrats who was charged with defrauding investors in a multimillion-dollar scam, was ordered held without bail here on Friday in a 1992 fraud pleading that his lawyer now wants expunged. Continues...=============================================================== The Womanchurian Candidate Democrats are preparing 'The Best Tax Increase In American History!' The Clintons are having a Chinagate scandal. O.J. just got arrested. Hillary's plugging her health plan. Question is, can Bob Dole beat Bill Clinton in November? Oops, sorry. Thought for a second there we were back in the 90s....

As of 8/08/01, United States Senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton is a co-defendent in the Judicial Watch, Loral Shareholders case. This case was filed in federal court in Washington, D. C. This case formally accuses Senator Hillary Clinton, along with other defendents - of transfering technology to China. Co-defendents in this devastating case include, but are not limited to - William Jefferson Clinton, John Huang and Bernard Schwartz. This case is styled 01-CV-1715.

Most people who puzzle over the efforts of Norman Hsu focus, and rightly so, on where Hsu came up with the boatloads of money that went to Democratic candidates and organizations. Flip Pidot at Suitably Flip decided to ask another question -- why did Hsu donate to certain candidates and not others? Flip discovers an indirect link to Bill Clinton's cabinet: This is peculiar. As an A-list Democratic fundraiser, Hsu is typically the bundler in these transactions, not the bundlee. So what gives? Lillian Vernon is a trinket catalog company, perhaps best known for its constant lampooning on Mad TV....

I have just posted a trailer to a documentary I am making about the Chinese money laundering and nuclear espionage scandals of the Clinton administration known as Chinagate. The video, Chinagate: The Movie, is set for a summer release on the internet. I am making the film because I am determined not to let another Clinton back into the White House. We just cannot allow this to happen. Conservatives and moderates need to find a way to come together in '08. I have seen too much fighting amongst here lately and it is disconcerting. Check out the trailer and let...

Hsu Linked to Past Clinton Scandal Donor By Fred Lucas September 14, 2007 (CNSNews.com) - Norman Hsu's donations to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign have brought comparisons but no direct connections to the 1990s "Chinagate" scandal. But before Hsu made headlines as a fugitive fundraiser late last month (he's now in custody in California for a 1991 grand theft conviction), he served on a board with another key figure in the earlier fundraising scandal. For more than a year, Hsu was a member of the board for the New School University in New York, where he worked with Bernard L. Schwartz....

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) - Disgraced Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu (shoo) has been released from a hospital in Grand Junction and is in jail in Mesa County. Sheriff's officials say Hsu was booked on an outstanding warrant charge from California. An advisement hearing is scheduled for tomorrow (1:30 p.m.). Hsu has been wanted as a fugitive for missing his sentencing on a 1991 grand theft case to which he had pleaded no contest. He failed to show up for a bail hearing last week in California. He was placed under arrest last week at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction...

After days of tortured explanations of why her campaign would hold onto bundled donations from Norman Hsu even after donating his direct contributions to charity, Hillary Clinton finally announced that her campaign would return Hsu's funneled money to their donors. Her campaign also announced how much money that would involve, and it turned out to be many times more than first thought: Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign announced tonight that it would return approximately $850,000 to about 260 donors who had been recruited or tapped by Norman Hsu, the disgraced Clinton campaign fundraiser who recently fled arrest and is now...

Spokesperson, Howard Wolfson, of the Hillary Clinton Campaign was quoted by the Associated Press yesterday as saying “We have decided out of an abundance of caution to return the money he [Norman Hsu] raised for our campaign. An estimated 260 donors this week will receive refunds totaling approximately $850,000 from the campaign." Wolfson went on to say “The Clinton campaign also will vigorously review its fundraisers, including thorough criminal background checks, in the future. In any instances where a source of a bundler's income is in question, the campaign will take affirmative steps to verify its origin.” Ten years ago...

Article published Sep 4, 2007 Chinese donor sounds like '96 September 4, 2007 By Bill Gertz - Questionable donations to Democratic officials and presidential candidates from a Chinese-American businessman highlight past concerns over Chinese political influence-buying operations. Apparel executive Norman Hsu, who turned himself in last week to authorities in California to face fraud charges, donated more than $1 million to senior Democrats, including the presidential campaigns of Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois. Mr. Hsu, a native of Hong Kong, has not been linked to any foreign government, and the fraud charges are...

Clinton fundraising flashbacks erupted last week as critics of Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) demanded answers about some of her questionable campaign fundraising, aspects of which mirrored the "China-gate" fundraising scandal that plagued the 1996 Bill Clinton-Al Gore campaign. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign has returned money directly donated from a one-time fugitive, Norman Hsu, now in the custody of California authorities. But because she is keeping much of the money he raised for her, along with the history of Clinton fundraising scandals, the issue could linger, analysts say. "It's not over as long as the press and other candidates keep pointing...

Money has brought both trappings and trouble for Norman Hsu. Major contributions to the campaigns of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and other candidates have made the apparel executive an insider in elite political circles. He shows up in cozy pictures with politicians, at lavish fundraising events, and on the boards of prestigious organizations. But Hsu's history includes more unsavory episodes and associations. In 1990, he allegedly was kidnapped by Chinese gang members in San Francisco as part of an apparent effort to collect a debt. A year and a half later, he pleaded no contest to a charge of fleecing...

Just checked CNN for second time in about eight hours, and still have not seen anything on front page, or politics page about HSU being a fugtive from justice. There is a link that says Hillary to donate.... But you can read miles of text about GOP senator Craig nabbed in sex scandal. No bias here. Keep moving people, nothing to see here.

National Security: It's not a Buddhist temple, but the shady fundraising methods look the same. Like Al Gore, who took laundered cash, Sen. Hillary Clinton's got some explaining to do. The presidential hopeful pocketed $55,000 from a family of Chinese immigrants living in a modest house near the San Francisco airport. The Paw family, headed by a mail carrier, is one of the biggest sources of donations to her campaign. Turns out the gifts were bundled together by Paw family friend Norman Hsu, a Chinese businessman who at one time owned its 1,280-square-foot house. Hsu (pronounced "shoo") now lives in...

This is the "Summary" to the Senate's report into the investigation of the money-raising Clinton-Huang-Etc scandal surrounding the 1996 Presidential Elections. The summary is fairly comprehensive, and the rest of the report can be accessed through the link. Not only is this timely in relation to the current Hsu-Paw-Clinton scandal brewing, but the Chairman of the Senate Committee on the 1996 investigation was none other than Sen. Fred Thompson. Give 'em hell, Fred . . . - - - - - - - - - - In mid-1995, the President and his strategists decided that they needed to raise and...

Just Released!!!!Chinagate: The MovieView it HERE

After untold hours of research and editing the film together, I'd like to announce to the Free Republic community the word premiere of my documentary film detailing China's nuclear and political espionage campaign against the United States during President Bill Clinton's administration in the 1990s. All the main characters are there. From Jiang Zemin to John Huang, Mr. Wu, Johnny Chung, Ron Brown, Bernard Schwartz and Loral, James Riady and Lippo to Maria Hsia, the Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple, and Charlie Trie. Bill and Hillary are not going to like this. :) The film is available for viewing for free...

Hi, all: I am looking for people interested in the topic of Chinagate to take a look at my new website that promotes the documentary film that I am working on that deals with the whole scandal -- from John Huang to Loral to China's nuclear espionage. Specifically, I am looking for feedback on the site's design and am looking for knowledgeable people to spot check any errors I may have made if any. I also have two trailers to the film posted. Feedback on them would be great too. I plan to release the film by late June or...

The United States has been exaggerating China’s nuclear clout in a process that could lock the two into a Cold War-style arms race, two arms-control advocacy groups said in a Nov. 29 report

Rep. Curt Weldon, a moderate Republican who represents the 7th district of Pennsylvania, is in the political fight of his life. For the first time since he was elected to Congress in 1986, Weldon is facing a well-funded opponent, Vice Admiral (ret) Joseph A. Sestak, who is being backed by the entire Democratic Party establishment, from Hillary and Bill Clinton, to moveon.org What is it that the Clintonistas and the organized Left find so threatening about Curt Weldon that they are prepared to invest significant national campaign funds in unseat a moderate Republican who was re-elected in 2004 with 59%...

[snip] I can commiserate with Wallace. Several years ago, as the Washington bureau chief of this newspaper, I also got full frontal Clinton — in my case, for daring to ask him about the Chinagate scandal. It was the fall of 1999, the occasion a Cajun picnic for the Washington press corps on the South Lawn of the White House. Clinton, the function's main attraction, was due to make an appearance at any moment. Despite the president's having to wade through 40-plus scandals over the previous seven years, my cohorts in the press were all atwitter at the prospect of...

<p>FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON ON NOT CAPTURING BIN LADEN: 'At least I tried. That's the difference between me and some, including all the right wingers. They ridicule me for trying. They had eight months to try, they did not try. I tried. So I tried and failed'...</p>

CHINAGATE Secret memo on Loral deal Clinton approved satellite sale to Beijing as in national interest -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: April 21, 2000 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Charles Smith © 2000 WorldNetDaily.com Despite an ongoing FBI investigation into the unauthorized transfer of advanced missile-guidance technology to China, Loral Space & Communications Corp. requested and received Clinton administration approval to sell communications satellites to Beijing in 1996, a secret National Security Council memo obtained by WorldNetDaily shows. Congressional investigators have raised concerns that the satellite technology shared with the Chinese may have allowed them to improve their capability of launching intercontinental ballistic missiles....

Despite his vocal campaign today, Sestak served in the Clinton White House as the "silent" watchdog over U.S. Defense policy. The reason why I can legitimately call Sestak the "silent" watchdog is because at no time during the various Clinton scandals did Sestak raise any alarm. For example, the admiral did nothing to stop Chinese espionage from obtaining a vast array of American military technology. Sestak prides himself as being a patriot and an expert in military space technology, yet the records show that he remained silent when encrypted satellite communications systems, missile nose cone designs, and radiation-hardened chip technology...

Rep. Dennis Kucinich was just on Fox, being interviewed. When asked if Kucinich agreed that Hezbollah is a pack of murdering terrorists, Kucinich became aggitated and stated that 'Hezbollah is part of the elected government of Lebanon.' When he was asked is he agreed that Hezbollah must be destroyed, he replied, 'I agree the war must be ended.' When the interviewer, clearly incredulous, gave Kucinich another chance to denounce Hezbollah, Kucinich would have none of it, and even more aggitated, repeatd that Hezbollah is part of the elected government of Lebanon that has the right to exist and be included...

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: for Terry McAuliffeAKA Terence Richard McAuliffeBorn: 1957Birthplace: Syracuse, NY Gender: MaleEthnicity: WhiteSexual orientation: StraightOccupation: PoliticianNationality: United StatesExecutive summary: Clinton's Chairman of the DNCGraduated Catholic University of America in 1979, BA in Political Science. Received a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1984. Quickly became a prime Democratic party fundraiser. Invested $100K in Global Crossing, which turned into $18M. McAuliffe did work for Global Crossing's CEO Gary Winnick. Luckily McAuliffe got his money out before accounting irregularities were revealed demonstrated that GC had an inflated stock price, resulting in the company's...

THE THIRD PARTY HILLARY NEEDS... TO WINFLIM FLAM SCAM42% WILL VOTE FOR HILLARY. 40% WON'T. SHE NEEDS TO MAKE SURE THE OTHER 18% WON'T VOTE REPUBLICAN... JUST LIKE THE DNC MANAGED TO DO IN BOTH 1992 AND 1996 n 1991 when Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton decided to challenge President George H.W. Bush for the White House, all of the honest in-house polls the Clinton Campaign and the Democratic National Committee took indicated that Clinton would lose to Bush by a margin of 16 points. The polls taken by Bush and the Republican National Committee said the same thing. Bush...

As of this past July 9th, 2001, Meng vs Schwartz - 98cv2859 Judge Lamberth denied a motion to alter judgement, denied a motion to amend judgement and denied a motion for relief of judgement in the Loral Shareholders case. - As of today, July 19, 2001, I'm starting this Loral Shareholders 'Discussion' Thread to make sure this Loral case stays in the spotlight (Latest Posts) for discussion purposes and for all future FR.com posters and lurkers to easily find. I'm highlighting one of the key defendents, Terrance McAuliffe - because he is now Chairman of the DNC. Yesterday, on ...

In the aftermath of the Dubai ports dispute, the Bush administration is hiring a Hong Kong conglomerate to help detect nuclear materials inside cargo passing through the Bahamas to the United States and elsewhere. The administration acknowledges the no-bid contract with Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. represents the first time a foreign company will be involved in running a sophisticated U.S. radiation detector at an overseas port without American customs agents present. Freeport in the Bahamas is 65 miles from the U.S. coast, where cargo would be likely to be inspected again. The contract is currently being finalized.

Some commentators insist that the opposition to the Dubai Ports deal was much ado about nothing and was simply ignorance of the way ports and terminals function. They insist that the whole sale was just about management of several terminals - nothing which would effect homeland security.Question: If this ports deal was really nothing serious, why was the Coast Guard initially worried and opposed to the deal? It would seem from the Coast Guard's initial concern that there is much more at stake with this deal then some are willing to admit. It certainly indicates that security concerns to this...

  THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY:HOW DECADES OF CLINTON DOUBLE-DEALING COMPROMISED OUR NATIONAL SECURITY by Mia T, March 8, 2006     ld habits die hard. Bill and hillary and their fixers in the press and DC are up to their old tricks.1 The clintons trade our national security for their power and treasure2 while old media and the DC establishment--pre-9/11, 20th-century relics all--do nothing.3 But this time the betrayal is happening in real time, right before our very eyes. Aided and abetted by the usual useful-idiot suspects in the press, allowed to operate with impunity by a Congress cowered...

At approximately 4:05 pm EST today, Sean Hannity's screener allowed me to be the second caller to pose a question to Sean Hannity on air. When I heard my name and city announced and Sean said hello, I said good afternoon and stated "Sean, this will be the toughest question you've ever had to answer" and Sean said "have at it." [my question follows] "Sean, over the past many years, I've not heard you once, not one time - direct your listeners to go to our U. S. Congressional Record for the date of June 23, 1999. This date is...

In November 1997, Mr. Freeh sent Attorney General Janet Reno a 27-page memo about allegations of illicit fund-raising during the 1996 campaign. Much "soft money" came into the Clinton-Gore camp "from alarming sources, including the People's Republic of China." Miss Reno refused Mr. Freeh's recommendation that an independent counsel run the case. Then the president made a mistake. In an offhand remark to the press, he claimed that had the FBI briefed the White House, he would have ensured that there was no "undue influence" involved. But as Mr. Freeh writes, two FBI agents had briefed Rand Beers, a senior...

Clinton Legacy: The Cost of Real Corruption By Christopher G. Adamo October 20, 2005 From the moment of Tom Delay's indictment, liberal grandstanding has been relentless. Its most notable mouthpieces, led by the ever-shrill House Democrat Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, characterized the indictment as solid proof of a "culture of corruption" among the Republicans. Similar Democrat caterwauling greets each new suggestion that some high-ranking Republican might have "outed" Valerie Plame as a covert CIA operative. The left virtually salivates at the possibility that presidential adviser Karl Rove could be the "fall guy," despite the inarguable fact that Plame was neither...

Freeh Sounds Like He's Got the Goods October 19, 2005 Download Windows Media PlayerListen To Rush Conduct Broadcast Excellence (Highly recommended by poster) BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Okay, now on to Louie Freeh, fulfilling a commitment made to you on Monday. There's a review of his book, "(My FBI: Bringing Down the Mafia, Investigating Bill Clinton, and Fighting the War on Terror)," in the Washington Times today by Joseph C. Goulden, and the interesting passage from this review... Let me give you the first paragraph then go to the interesting passage. "Oh, let's cut right to the chase. Your primary...

Former Clinton Chief of Staff John Podesta recently wrote a scathing article about former FBI Director Louis J. Freeh. Freeh made some harsh comments about his life at the FBI during the Clinton scandal years, and Podesta simply could not resist the knee-jerk urge to defend his ex-boss. Those who know me well also know that I have little love for the former FBI Director. His tenure at the helm of the bureau was a disaster. Freeh can best be described as a "Luddite" in terms of his understanding of modern technology. I am almost certain that his new book...

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid accepted donations from key Clinton Chinagate fundraiser John Huang - and later pushed for Senate confirmation of the judge who let Huang off with a slap on the wrist. News of Reid's Chinagate donations resurfaced this week in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, which detailed the top Democrat's relationship with a Nevada church whose pastor has been indicted for misusing federal grants obtained by the powerful Senate Democrat. A federal grant of $423,000 was arranged by Reid for the Alliance Collegiums Association of Nevada, which was run by the Rev. Willie Davis, the longtime pastor of...

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER GAUDY, SELF-AGGRANDIZING CLINTON SLUSH FUND by Mia T, 9.18.05 $1.25 Billion donated to Clinton Global SummitATS Swiss News Agency via Babelfish translation | September 18, 2005 The Clinton top collected 1,25 billion dollars of gifts New York - former American president Bill Clinton closed Saturday the alternative top with that of UNO which it had chaired for Thursday in New York. Some 1,25 billion dollar of gifts will have been joined together there for various international causes. The world Initiative Clinton (cgi) brought together leaders of the whole world, businessmen, environmentalists or dignitaries religious. It made it...

Members of a secret Pentagon intelligence unit known as Able Danger warned top military generals that it had uncovered information of increased al Qaeda "activity" in Aden harbor less than three weeks before the attack on the USS Cole, The Post has learned. In the latest explosive revelation in the Able Danger saga, two former members of the data-mining team are expected to testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee next week that they uncovered alarming terrorist activity and associations in Aden weeks before the Oct. 12, 2000, suicide bombing of the U.S. warship that killed 17 sailors.

DRUDGE REPORTTUE NOV 24 1998 23:52:09 UTC WHITE HOUSE PANIC; MASSIVE LEAK OF NATIONAL SECURITY DOCUMENTS **World Exclusive* WASHINGTON -- The Clinton administration is facing the most massive leak of classified foreign policy documents since the publication of the Pentagon papers more than two decades ago during the Vietnam war, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. "The impeachment proceedings are going to have seemed like a picnic, before we get though with this," said one White House official. The papers, totaling more than 20,000 pages, according to sources who have read them, include a history of the secret negotiations between the...

"...In April, CNSNews.com staff writer Scott Wheeler reported that a senior U.S. government official and three other sources claimed that the 1995 memo written by Jamie Gorelick, who served as the Clinton Justice Department’s deputy attorney general from 1994 to 1997, created "a roadblock" to the investigation of illegal Chinese donations to the Democratic National Committee. But the picture is much bigger than that. The Gorelick memo, which blocked intelligence agents from sharing information that could have halted the September 11 hijacking plot, was only the mortar in a much larger maze of bureaucratic walls whose creation Gorelick personally oversaw..."

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Sept. 11 commission knew military intelligence officials had identified lead hijacker Mohamed Atta as a member of al-Qaida who might be part of U.S.-based terror cell more than a year before the terror attacks but decided not to include that in its final report, a spokesman acknowledged Thursday. Al Felzenberg, who had been the commission's chief spokesman, said Tuesday the panel was unaware of intelligence specifically naming Atta. But he said subsequent information provided Wednesday confirmed that the commission had been aware of the intelligence. It did not make it into the final report because the...

The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9-11 Commission), an independent, bipartisan commission created by congressional legislation...is chartered to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks...

As the 9/11 Commission tries to uncover what kept intelligence agencies from preventing September 11, it has overlooked two vital factors: Jamie Gorelick and Bill Clinton. Gorelick, who has browbeaten the current administration, helped erect the walls between the FBI, CIA and local investigators that made 9/11 inevitable. However, she was merely expanding the policy Bill Clinton established with Presidential Decision Directive 24. What has been underreported is why the policy came about: to thwart investigations into the Chinese funding of Clinton’s re-election campaign, and the favors he bestowed on them in return. In April, CNSNews.com staff writer Scott Wheeler...

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh has written a book detailing his career, including his eight years as head of the bureau during the Clinton administration - where he describes his frustration over the fact that Bill Clinton wouldn't take his warnings about the terrorist threat seriously. Freeh's book - due out in October and titled "My FBI: Bringing Down the Mafia, Investigating Bill Clinton, and Waging War on Terror" - promises to be the first in-depth account by the nation's former top cop of his days presiding over FBI investigations into one Clinton scandal after another. According to publisher St....

Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, as I have done many times before on this floor, I rise to address a national security issue of the highest importance, one that demands our utmost attention. I wish to alert this body and the American people to China's spreading global influence and the imminent threat this poses to our national security. Our past concerns have come to fruition on all levels--economically, militarily, and ideologically. We are on a collision course. As I will detail, China has become a progressive danger we can no longer afford to overlook. As I said, this is not new....

We did it... We protested churchill. There was a collection of pro-Churchill moonbats that showed up, and we protested them as well.

TROUBLE SPEAK Ward Churchill copied 'original' art piece Takes a swing at TV reporter who confronted him -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: February 26, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Professor Ward Churchill Adding to a growing list of allegations, controversial University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill appears to have violated copyright law by claiming a reknowned artist's work as his own. Churchill, whose integrity has been challenged since news broke earlier last month of his paper blaming victims of 9-11 for the attacks, made an Indian-theme serigraph in 1981 called "Winter Attack" and printed 150 copies. But one of the buyers,...