LINK TO 8/6/01 PDB: ""Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."see Post #111.
Forensic INtelligence.org Some REALLY interesting stuff
GVH/Freeh Scarpa File Interesting comments by Ramsi Yousef
(Excerpts from letter to Att Gen J. Reno, Sept 3, 1997 from representatives of majority party in House Judiciary Committee, signed by among others F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.)
http://www.house.gov/judiciary/renoltr.htm
---snip--- Against this backdrop, a number of troubling events have been reported. In March 1995, Johnny Chung, a Democratic National Committee trustee and a businessman from Torrance, California, brought six officials of the government of the People's Republic of China and its state-owned companies, including Hongye Zheng, Chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, and Yang Zanzhong, President of China Petro-Chemical Corp., to hear the President give his regular Saturday radio address. Donor Got 6 Chinese Officials into White House, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 15, 1997, at 3; 2nd Chinese Meeting Revealed, Clinton Expressed Concern over Propriety of Photographs, The Arizona Republic, February 15, 1997, at A-2; William C. Rempel and Alan C. Miller, First Lady's Aide Solicited Check to DNC, Los Angeles Times, July 27, 1997, at A1. Early on, presidential spokesman Mike McCurry said that the White House was mystified as to how these officials got into the White House, and he admitted that the National Security Council concluded that they should not have been at the event. Id. President Clinton personally expressed his concern that he "wasn't sure we'd want photos of him with these people circulating around." Id.
A recent interview with Mr. Chung reveals how the officials were admitted. Id. On March 8, 1995, he came to the First Lady's office in the White House seeking various favors for the officials, including admission to the radio address. Id. Aides to Mrs. Clinton, Margaret Williams and Evan Ryan, suggested that Mr. Chung could get the favors if he helped Mrs. Clinton with her debts to the DNC for holiday parties. Id. The next day, Mr. Chung gave Ms. Williams a check for $50,000, and received a lunch in the White House mess, a picture with Mrs. Clinton, and admission to the radio address for himself and the officials. Id. Records indicate that on Friday, March 17, 1995, Mr. Chung donated $50,000 to the Democratic National Committee and on April 12, 1995, he donated an additional $125,000. Id. In commenting on the solicitation in the White House by the First Lady's aides, Mr. Chung said, "I see the White House is like a subway: You have to put in coins to open the gates." Id.
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During 1995 and 1996, Mr. Trie received a series of wire transfers in amounts of $50,000 and $100,000 from the Chinese government's state-owned bank, the Bank of China. Glenn R. Simpson, Bank of China Tied to Funds for Big Donor, Wire Transfers were Made to Trie, a Key Figure for Democratic Party, The Wall Street Journal, April 1, 1997, at A-20; Jerry Seper, Chinese Government Bank Made Substantial Transfers of Funds to Trie, The Washington Times, April 2, 1997, at A-4. Recent Senate testimony reveals that Mr. Trie received $1.4 million in wire transfers from abroad from 1994 through 1996. David E. Rosenbaum, Committee is Told a Donor Received Foreigners' Cash, The New York Times, July 30, 1997, at A1; Terry Lemons, FBI Follows Foreign Cash to LR's Trie, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, July 30, 1997, at 1A; House Panel Questions Name on White House Guest List, The Times Union, May 20, 1997, at A3; James W. Brosnan, 2 Chinese Tell Panel of Illegal Gifts to Democrats, The Commercial Appeal, July 30, 1997, at A1. At least $220,000 of this money has been traced into the treasury of the DNC. Id.
Of the total Mr. Trie received from overseas, $905,000 came from Ng Lap Seng, a Macao-based businessman who was Trie's partner and who was also known as Mr. Wu. Id. Mr. Ng is an adviser to the Chinese Communist government. Id. Although he is a foreign national who cannot legally make donations to U.S. campaigns, he gave money through two employees to attend a dinner for big contributors with President Clinton on February 16, 1995. Id.
Returning to Mr. Wang's visit to the coffee with President Clinton [in 1996, my note SB], just four days before the meeting, Mr. Wang's arms trading company received special permission to import 100,000 assault weapons, along with millions of bullets, into the United States despite the assault weapons ban. Michael Daly, This Prez Donor a Real Pistol, New York Daily News, March 26, 1997, at 7. The story says: "The U.S. lawyer representing the Chinese could not explain why the special permits were suddenly granted Feb. 2, 1996. 'All of a sudden, there was a breakthrough,' the attorney, Robert Sanders, was reported to say. 'I can't account for it.'" Id.
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Beginning in the summer of 1994, federal agents began an undercover sting investigation of Poly's efforts to smuggle weapons into the United States. Id. On March 8, 1996, just a month after Mr. Wang's visit with President Clinton, the President of Poly's U.S. subsidiary, Robert Ma, sold his house in Atlanta and fled the country. Id. On March 18, 1996, federal agents surreptitiously seized a Poly shipment of 2,000 AK-47 assault rifles in Oakland, California. Id. These weapons had left China on February 18 aboard a vessel belonging to another state-owned company, the Chinese Ocean Shipping Company ("COSCO"). Id. In May, federal agents hastily shut down the operation when they learned that the Chinese had been tipped to its existence. Id. The stories indicate that the Department is currently investigating to determine the source of the leak. Id.
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As you see the dates between Chung’s visits and the Gorelick memo (4th March 1995) do not quite tally; close but no cigarr. However, if anyone can show that the Attorneys Office for South New York at that time (eg late 1994 - pre-March 1995) was involved in investigations regarding Chung, Trie and others then you’ve found the “Pelican Brief”.
However, the memo in itself is damaging enough. What it shows is that the PC-crowd does not understand that it is a mad, bad world out there. By tying the law enforcement agencies hands, they allowed the threat to the safety of the USA to grow unchecked.
Meanwhile let’s concentrate on the fact that Ms Gorelick cannot both be a witness and a commissioner. She must testify for the completness of the records.
Do you still think Condi was telling the truth when she testified that the administration had no clue that hijacked planes might be used as anything more than bargaining chips in the classic hijacking sense?
I think Ramsi Yousef was the key to stopping 9/11 and OKCBOMB, and also links back to Saddam & Iraq.
- But maybe that's just me.