Posted on 08/21/2010 3:42:42 AM PDT by Scanian
On August 16, 2010 the U.S. Department of Defense released a congressionally mandated report entitled "Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China 2010."
The release of the report created worldwide headlines and has been taken seriously by serious military analysts.
One of the best and most direct headlines was written in introducing a story by Washington Times National Security Reporter Bill Gertz, who described what the DOD Report said thus: "China targets U.S. troops with arms buildup -- Pentagon cites 'anti-access' missiles in report."
"China is pursuing a variety of air, sea, undersea, space and counterspace, and information warfare systems and operational concepts to achieve this capability, moving toward an array of overlapping, multilayered offensive capabilities extending from China's coast into the western Pacific," the report said of the anti-access arms."
This report captures in some detail a very real clear and present danger to America and our Pacific Rim allies by the ongoing modernization of the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA). "PLA" is a term that can be accepted generically to include all PRC military forces.
However, this very dangerous PLA trend should come as no surprise because the U.S. Congress officially predicted it with great detail over a decade ago.
On January 3, 1999, a Select Committee in the House of Representatives voted out unanimously a bipartisan report from "Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China."
The three-volume unclassified Report is know as the "Cox/Dicks Report" because the Chairman of the Select Committee was Congressman Chris Cox (R-CA) and the ranking Democrat was Congressman Norm Dicks (D-WA).
The three volumes identify in great detail all the military technologies stolen by the PLA that are now operational or in the very near-term PLA modernization pipeline. It is very fair to say all U.S. state-of-the-art military technology stolen in the late 20th century is now flowing into various PLA forces -- ground, sea, air, space, and cyber.
Essentially, a decade after the Clinton administration sold out national security to Chinese military intelligence agents, the U.S. is in the provable "hurt locker."
Men and woman in uniform may eventually pay a huge price for illegal campaign contributions. (The book Year of the Rat fully documents this time of betrayal.)
State-sponsored "criminality" by the PRC is just another dimension of warfare for them. It is the linkage of PRC business and the PLA with criminality. The melding of the PLA with PRC business and foreign policy objectives while cheating and bribing is a real and growing military problem, and this trend is as much a national security issue as law enforcement issue.
For example, First Lady Hillary Clinton had her Chief of Staff Maggie Williams accept a check for $50,000 in the White House from Johnny Chung. Mr. Chung, who legitimately expressed remorse as he was facing charges, fingered a Chinese General in PLA intelligence as a source of the funds for the White House check. The $50,000 was presented on behalf of known PRC citizens for their access to President Clinton's Saturday morning national radio address.
Any foreign money into the American political process is illegal. But this was an especially egregious instance, since Clinton is now Secretary of State and is rumored to be in consideration for the position of Secretary of Defense.
The "list of horribles" of American technology compromised in those days could go on and on, while concurrently, a lot of FBI/DOJ targets were busy fleeing the country. Several were Triad Gangsters, others "hustlers," and still others commissioned officers in PLA intelligence services. The net result was that while a Republican Congress focused on Monica Lewinsky, a lot of individuals got away with very bad criminal actions directed against the American political process and our national security.
Sadly, not only did America lose cutting-edge military technology, but we also lost a return on a huge financial investment. All U.S. taxpayer dollars for R&D and weapon system development costs were lost, because the just-released DOD report confirms that a very modern PLA military capability is being acquired at a much lower cost to them. We funded their growth through their successful espionage attack.
It was said during the Clinton administration that the center of knowledge for military capabilities was shifting to China. This is because not only did they steal U.S. top-secret military technology, but they were also buying for top dollar Russian weapons that ran from excellent Russian fighters to carrier-killing surface ships, submarines, and missiles. This is because the PRC is flush, thanks to U.S.-China trade imbalance that is still running into the hundreds of billions.
It was a shameful period in American history, and now, as the DOD report makes very clear, our children and grandchildren have to live with real and deadly consequences.
Is it any wonder Jihadists think the US is corrupt and Godless? Never mind govt. attitude toward Christianity and Israel, we keep electing liars, womanizers, and traitors; and I suspect their feelings about blacks and minorities in general are not favorable. They’re useful idiots, and when their use is done...off with their heads.
DOD report makes very clear, our children and grandchildren have to live with real and deadly consequences.
A gift from the progressives.
Dear God, please send us a man like David, or a Nehemiah, or even a Reagan. Better yet send your Son, let’s get the big show on the road. God help us all.
We deserve everything were are going to get, so many people have turned away from God and His Son, and have gone about replacing them with idols to worship. A true revival is what we could use now.
America is waking up. Look at the polls, just is it too-little, too-late?
If you ever want to hear blatant racism, ask someone in China or Japan what they think of blacks.
Thanks Slick
You should have been impeached for this, too
Well Bubba made ‘em pay for it im contrbutions.
Clinton committed so many impeachable offenses, but he never would have been convicted even if charges would have been made, no matter what. Even though the Dims were in the senate minority during most of his presidency, they still had sufficient numbers to prevent conviction (which requires the vote of 2/3 of the senators present).
AMEN! This is my prayer everyday! GOD bless you. :)
God Bless you, right back at ya!
We are fighting the good fight.
and still, republicans never point out the chickens coming home to
roost due to clinton policies. illegal immigration, mortgage
crisis, etc.
Clinton should be strung up along with the executives involved especially the ones from Loral for selling our secrets to China !
A military intelligence group known as Able Danger used data mining of public information to “discover the networks”, so to speak. They found connections between people that pointed to suspicious activity.
Two discoveries in particular stand out.
1)Over a year before 9-11 they discovered a ring of potential terrorists centered in Brooklyn, NY and headed by Mohammad Atta.
2)And they discovered a ring of suspicious activity surrounding SecDef William Perry, Sanford University, and the Chinese military leader’s wife.
The military reported their intelligence on Able Danger to the FBI, who at the time said it couldn’t use the data because of “the Gorelick Wall”. They have since admitted in testimony to Congress that the Gorelick Wall never came into it because the people in question were not US citizens.
Why did the military destroy Able Danger’s evidence, disband Able Danger, and eventually gag anybody in Able Danger from testifying to Congress and retaliate against them with punitive action?
Because Sec Def Perry’s OWN COMPANY sold forbidden encrypted satellite technology to a company he knew was owned by the Chinese military’s wife; the match was set up by a communist agent at Stanford University. This was all revealed after Clinton was out of office and FOIA requests (by Judicial Watch, I believe) were required to be answered.
IOW, for the sake of covering OUR OWN SECRETARY OF DEFENSE’S ASS, the United States military threw out the information which could have stopped 9-11. 3,000 innocent people died because our SecDef was scared that our military intelligence analysts were TOO accurate at identifying crooks and potential risks - they were finding that our own Benedict Arnold was the top commander of our entire military, milking the system for money.
The 9-11 Commission refused to look at this part of the story. Maybe because Jamie Gorelick sat in the judge’s seat rather than the defendant’s seat. Like a lot of people who were entrusted with defending the American public at that time.
Attorney General Janet Reno had two different Congressional Reports which strongly recommended an independent investigation of the Clinton administration - the Thompson Report and the Cox Report. Both pointed to the dangerous connection with Chinese spies and/or military leaks. Reno simply refused to do anything about any of this.
Remind you at all of Eric Holder?
It’s lawlessness again, folks. It’s within our military. It’s within our DOJ. It’s within our Congress. It’s within every entity that they have the ability to control.
It’s going to get more and more innocent people killed all the time, unless we find a way to FORCE the enforcers to be earnest.
Later
Bump
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No wonder we're screwed!
Somebody should also remember that the Clinton administration approved the sale of important industrial templates for air frames of a potential bomber.
Thinking back to a book called Airplane I remember that the airframe technology was considered by manufacturers to be theri top industrial secret.
I can’t remember offhand the US citizens and the Chinese who were involved in this scandal, but they got off clean with the goods.
Historical BUMP!
As much as I don’t like Obama, I am delighted Hillary isn’t in office for just this reason. They were and are criminals.
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