Kerry Took Cash From Chinese Military Intelligence

NewsMax ^ | Monday, Feb. 2, 2004 | Carl Limbacher

[TBP]

Democrats are counting on Sen. John Kerry's military credentials to convince voters that he can be trusted with America's national security.

But documents that surfaced over the weekend raise serious questions about whether Kerry was duped in the 1990s into helping the Chinese military perfect its ability to strike the U.S. with nuclear weapons.

In 1996 Kerry met with Liu Chaoying, the daughter of a powerful Chinese military official who also doubled as vice president of a subsidiary of the state-owned China Aerospace Corp.

Before the meeting, held in Kerry's Senate office, Liu's sponsor, Johnny Chung, made clear she was interested in getting her company listed on the U.S. Stock Exchange.

The Democratic presidential front-runner was only too happy to oblige and ordered his aides to contact the Securities and Exchange Commission.

"The next day," reports Newsweek, "Liu and Chung were ushered into a private briefing with a senior SEC official."

Within weeks, Chung returned the favor, staging a Kerry fund raiser at a Beverly Hills hotel that raked in $10,000 for the senator's re-election campaign.

Bank records would later show that Kerry's Chinese campaign cash came from $300,000 in overseas wire transfers sent to Chung on orders from the chief of Chinese military intelligence, Newsweek reports.

The money was routed through a Hong Kong bank account controlled by Liu, whose company later benefited from waivers granted by the Clinton administration to the U.S. aerospace giant Loral Corp.

As Liu and Chung were lining the pockets of the Democratic Party's political elite, Loral handed over top-secret missile guidance technology to Liu's firm.

Liu's China Aerospace used the information to perfect Beijing's fleet of intercontinental ballistic missiles, which before the 1990s could not strike the U.S.

By the end of the decade, however, China's ICBMs could reach the entire continental United States with pinpoint accuracy, thanks in part to the senator who says now he can be trusted with America's national security.

Chung later testified that before Liu wired him the cash to contribute to prominent Democrats, the chief of Chinese intelligence personally told him: "We like your president. We want to see him re-elected."

Apparently, Beijing felt the same way about Sen. John Kerry.

[TBP]

More shameful behavior by John F. Kerry.

As someone who has worn my country's uniform proudly, I hav no use for this guy whatsoever. Given this information on top of his record after returning home from Vietnam, I can't help but wonder whose side Kerry is on.

[doug from upland]

Another NewsMax gem!

[NormsRevenge]

BUMP

[NautiNurse]

Bookmarked. Can't wait to hear Ketchup boy squirming out of this one without the use of his forehead wrinkles.

[UCSC Republican]

If Kerry is elected, I am moving to Iceland.

[passionfruit]

I truly hope this story gets maximum coverage!

[wafflehouse]

interesting..

[VaBthang4]

How sad.

Good news we found it out now...this guy cannot beat Bush.

[July 4th]

From Newsweek this morning...

[Skybird]

I'm moving to Switzerland.

[TheEaglehasLanded]

Is this concerning LORAL and the Buddhist Monks, and the Peoples Liberation Army

[bonesmccoy]

smirk!

Nah... it's just you!

Couldn't be!

You got the wong wei pal!

hee gee hee

[nutmeg]

ping!

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent ‘miscellaneous’ ping list.

[Mo1]

Here is another article relating to this


http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/17080.htm

February 2, 2004 -- CHARLESTON, S.C. - Democratic front-runner John Kerry had closer personal contact than he's ever acknowledged with fat cat Johnny Chung, who gave him illegal campaign cash during the Bill Clinton funny-money scandals, it was reported yesterday.

There's proof that Kerry met Chung weeks earlier than he has claimed - and it's in Kerry's own hand in a "Dear Johnny" note that refers to the meeting and thanks Chung for being "on my team," Newsweek reported.

Chung pleaded guilty to funneling $10,000 to Kerry and $18,000 to Clinton's 1996 reelection on orders from Chinese intelligence.

Kerry returned the money, and there's no suggestion he knew it was illegal; the issue is whether he told the truth when he was doing damage control and trying to distance himself from Chung.

Chung came to Kerry's office in July 1996 to seek help in getting a Chinese official in to see a Securities and Exchange Commission official, and within a week, Kerry's staff wrote Chung asking him to host a Sept. 9 fund-raiser.

Kerry has claimed he never met Chung until that Sept. 9 fund-raiser but the "Dear Johnny" note is dated July 31 and says: "It was a great pleasure to have met you last week."

Kerry yesterday called it "old news" and claimed the "Dear Johnny" note was routine in fund-raising, adding, "I have no recollection of it at all."

The report came a day after the revelation that Kerry - who is railing against "special interests" - holds the Senate record for taking campaign cash from lobbyists.

[nutmeg]

ROTFL at your post and tagline! ;-D

[MissAmericanPie]

Whoa...

[nutmeg]

ping!

[Born in a Rage]

Here's some more info on Kerry and China

Voted YES on permanent normal trade relations with China.

(Vote to give permanent Normal Trade Relations [NTR] status to China. Currently, NTR status for China is debated and voted on annually.)

Bill HR.4444 ; vote number 2000-251 on Sep 19, 2000

Voted YES on killing a bill for trade sanctions if China sells weapons.

(Vote to table [kill] an amendment that would require sanctions against China or other countries if they were found to be selling illicit weapons of mass destruction.)

Bill HR.4444 ; vote number 2000-242 on Sep 13, 2000

[U S Army EOD]

His own no matter what it cost, kind of like Bill.

[Mo1]

Hmmmmmmmmmm ... seems Johnny has some explaining to do