Boortz notices the 9-11/Chinagate/Gorelick "Rosetta Stone"

Nealz Nuze ^ | 30 November 2004 | Neal Boortz

[thatcher]

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[CyberAnt]

"To protect Clinton from an investigation into Chinese involvement in his campaign finance scandal"

Hmmmm? I believe I made that very statement on FR yesterday or the day before. Must be Neal reads FR.

[aruanan]

Hmmm, some of us thought this the very first day we heard about The Wall and who it was who authored it.

[Alberta's Child]

That's right! Sorry to boast, but that was the content of one of my very first posts here on FR after Ashcroft's bombshell before the 9/11 commission!

[Rockitz]

Has Rush caught this linkage yet? If not, he needs to be clued in.

[Fedora]

Ping.

[Fedora]

She was nominated to the 9-11 Commission by Tom Daschle.

Thanks for that piece of info--interesting.

[FreeAtlanta]

Hmmmm? I believe I made that very statement on FR yesterday or the day before. Must be Neal reads FR.

Neal openly admits that he has no original opinions and is an advid web surfer. He has probably read this thread.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[Libloather]

I'm sure it'll come up during the debates...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1123787/posts

March 6, 1998

Court documents said Mr. Chung also sought to launder donations to Sen. John Kerry's 1996 re-election campaign in Massachusetts.

Mr. Chung is expected to enter a guilty plea in the case on Monday, according to lawyers close to the case. The charges were listed in a criminal information filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.

The guilty plea, the sources said, appears to be part of an agreement with prosecutors for Mr. Chung's cooperation in the investigation of campaign-finance abuses during the 1996 elections. He is accused of violating the Federal Election Campaign Act by exceeding the statutory limit on contributions and conspiring to cause donations in the names of others.

The charges focus on two fund-raisers: for President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore in Century City, Calif., on Sept. 21, 1995; and a Sept. 9, 1996, fund-raiser for Mr. John Kerry in Beverly Hills, Calif.

And...

Told that Liu was interested in getting one of her companies listed on the U.S. Stock exchange, Kerry's aides immediately faxed over a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The next day, Liu and Chung were ushered into a private briefing with a senior SEC official. Within weeks, Chung returned the favor: On Sept. 9 he threw Kerry a fund-raiser at a Beverly Hills hotel, raking in $10,000 for the senator's re-election campaign. According to bank records and Chung's congressional testimony, the campaign contributions came out of $300,000 in overseas wire transfers sent on orders from the chief of Chinese military intelligence -- and routed through a Hong Kong bank account controlled by Liu.

There was never any suggestion that Kerry knew about the dubious origins of Chung's largesse. Still, the appearance that the senator had played a cynical cash-for-favors game forced him to play damage control. In January 1998 he told the Boston Herald that the timing of the SEC meeting and the subsequent fund-raiser was "totally coincidental" and "entirely staff driven." He said the Beverly Hills event had been set up by a professional fund-raiser, and that he had never even met Chung until the night of the event. But congressional documents obtained by Newsweek seem to tell a different story.

"Dear Johnny, It was a great pleasure to have met you last week," Kerry told Chung in a handwritten note dated July 31, 1996. "Barbara [a Kerry fund-raiser] told me of your willingness to help me with my campaign...It means a lot to have someone like you on my team as I face the toughest race of my career." That same day the Kerry fund-raiser faxed a memo to Chung that read, in part: "The following are two ways in which you can be helpful to John." No. 1 was "Host an event in L.A. on Saturday, Sept. 9th." (A Kerry spokesman acknowledged that the senator may have met with Chung prior to the fund-raiser, but not in his Senate office.)

[BenLurkin]

"Recall, too, that during the time of Ms. Gorelick's 1995 memo, the issue causing the most tension between the Reno-Gorelick Justice Department and Director Freeh's FBI was not counterterrorism but widely reported allegations of contributions to the Clinton-Gore campaign from foreign sources, involving the likes of John Huang and Charlie Trie. Mr. Trie later told investigators that between 1994 and 1996 he raised some $1.2 million, much of it from foreign sources, whose identities were hidden by straw donors." -WSJ Op. Jour. 4/15/04

[BARLF]

1995

At the same time Energy officials were exchanging information with communist leaders in early 1995, they were dismantling the security system at the nation's top-secret nuclear-weapons research labs. It was also in 1995 that intelligence officers learned that China had stolen from Los Alamos critical data for building miniature nuclear warheads…….. Some experts fear there might be a link between recent Chinese espionage and the administration's trade trips to China. Computer encryption, satellite and energy secrets would be the three most likely things compromised on the trips, they say – Investor’s Business Daily 3/30/99

Officials intercepted news that Chinese agents had returned to the United States and were successful in their efforts to steal the information they needed to develop a Neutron Bomb. The spy also provided details of how the information was transferred from the United States to China. The report prompted a federal criminal investigation

Thanks to Alamo-Girl.

[S.O.S121.500]

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[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

The "Gorelick Rosetta Stone" -- topic of http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1120934/posts -- has now been picked up in Australia at http://www.brookesnews.com -- its #2 headline for this week's edition, in fact.

It will be interesting to see what BrookesNews' Peter Zhang will have to say about this. He is their mole in China, and author of some truly timeless pieces on China's clandestine relationship to the U.S. during and after the Clinton years.