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In 1994, Ron Brown led a delegation of U.S. businesses to China. Among the businesses allowed to fly with the Commerce Secretary was Entergy Corp., a U.S.-based utility company that did business in Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and Texas.

Entergy CEO Edwin Lupberger traveled to China with Brown and later received a personal letter congratulating Entergy for its success in China. Entergy signed a $2 billion deal with the North China Power Group to build a 1200-megawatt power plant in Datong, China. Brown provided U.S. financial backing for the deal.

The Entergy deal was worth quite a bit to the Lippo Group. In fact, the Red Chinese North China Power Group renamed the project the "Lippo Entergy Datong Power Plant," giving top billing to the largest investor and financier.

According to an interoffice memorandum written by J. "Chip" Brown, head of the Hong Kong office for Entergy Corp., Entergy officials met Jude Kearney, Clinton's deputy assistant secretary of Commerce in Washington. Chip Brown sought a spot for Entergy's chief executive on the August 1994 trade trip to China.

According to Brown's memo, Kearney "indicated competitive nature of being selected to ride on the plane with the secretary. Also indicated that politics of the situation were important and he as a political employee would push those that were politically connected."

According to Kearney, the fact that Entergy executives made more than $80,000 in contributions to the Democratic Party qualified it as "politically connected" and thus, eligible to a ride paid for by American tax dollars.

There are more contacts between old Clinton friends and Arkansas businesses. According to a 1994 document obtained from the Commerce Department, William Cravens replacement at Systematics, John Steuri, sought and obtained clearance to accompany Ron Brown on foreign trade trips. The Commerce Office of General Counsel "vetted" (cleared) the Jackson Stephens owned company Systematics and the new CEO to travel to South America with Brown.

Additional testimony before Sen. Fred Thompson's committee shows that the Lippo Group is a joint venture of China Resources, a trading and holding company "wholly owned" by the Chinese communist government and used as a front for Chinese espionage operations.

Current allegations of espionage inside the Clinton White House center on Mochtar Riady. For example, a Riady "gardener" contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Clinton-Gore campaign. In fact, the same gardener was caught on video tape, shaking Clinton's hand and saying "James Riady sent me."

Another focal point is former Lippo executive John Huang and what he did while employed at Ron Brown's Commerce Department. Huang is clearly associated with advanced encryption chip technology, and large amounts of illegal money flowing from the far east into the Clinton-Gore campaign.

While at Commerce, Huang attended 37 classified briefings given by the CIA on encryption technology. After each briefing, Huang would walk across the street from the Commerce Department to the Lippo-Stephens office. Once inside the Stephens Group -- safely away from prying eyes -- Huang made hundreds of phone calls and faxes to points unknown.

Huang also attended secret White House meetings in June 1994 with Bill Clinton, Webster Hubbell and James Riady. The secret meetings resulted in a quick payment to Hubbell of over $100,000 by a Lippo company.

There is no question the Chinese generals selected American "encryption" technology as a prime target. The Red Chinese technology "focal point" was secure computers and communications. The red generals wanted to know if there were any secret Clipper-like "back-door" features built into the U.S. systems they purchased.

Motorola, Hughes, and Loral all made huge sales of "encrypted" satellite communication systems to China. Each sale required the personal signature of Bill Clinton to waive laws passed by Congress prohibiting such export. Each sale was preceded by a long series of memos to Ron Brown all begging to sell encryption technology to China.

Another example of the central focus on encryption is the Hua Mei fiber-optic project which included encryption computer source code. The one and only contract for Hua Mei is the General Logistics Division of the Chinese army. Still another focus of the Red Generals in Beijing was the encrypted -- secure -- satellite Air Traffic Control (ATC) system transferred to the Chinese air force under Bill Clinton's signature.

In order to inspect a computer chip one must first obtain access. It is often difficult to obtain access to a working satellite in orbit without a space shuttle. That problem was solved by the Chinese when they simply ripped the chips out of a working satellite exported to the PRC for launch. The missing "encryption" control board of chips from the Loral Intelsat came from a launch that crashed, killing 200 innocent Chinese civilians.

The Intelsat crypto-board provided the Chinese army with significant amounts of information on the operation of radiation hardened circuits. It was also an opportunity to see (at the microchip level) if the U.S. had installed secret back doors to eavesdrop on the Chinese army satellite communications. The fact that it cost some 200 lives to obtain also reflects how valuable the information was to the Chinese generals.

All this brings us back to Foster and Hubbell, non-technical lawyers with access to highly technical, classified information. The ties between President Clinton, Foster, Hubbell and the Chinese army scream to be investigated. So far, Janet Reno has yet to explain why she is not in conflict of interest investigating her former right-hand man Webster Hubbell.

Information warfare is defined by humans. The Foster data was covered by "National Security," and thus carried the death penalty if illegally released. The absolute value of what he carried is rated as being worth a life or many lives. Clearly, of all the data that Foster had at the time of his death, none was more valued, nor more dangerous, than the secrets hidden on a micro-chip.