Posted on 05/10/2004 5:26:21 AM PDT by Nasty McPhilthy
. China Gets More U.S. Secrets
Another un-ratified U.N. treaty has benefited communists at the expense of the U.S., thanks once again to the Clinton administration's 'legacy.'
In yet another example of how the former president sold out America's security to Red China, a defense department official tells Insight magazine how the Clinton administration handed over technology in order to keep within the "spirit" of the controversial Law of the Sea Treaty.
Senior strategic adviser Peter Leitner says giving away highly sensitive underwater technology -- which the Chi-coms 'demanded' under the pretense of needing it for manganese mining on the ocean floor -- compromised American submarine movement and could help Beijing to run submarines undetected just off the coast of the U.S.
"The quality of the side-scanning sonar, deep-ocean bathymetric equipment, cameras, lights, remotely operated vehicles and associated submersible technology provided them the capability to locate, reach and destroy, or salvage early-warning and intelligence sensors vital to our national security," said Leitner at a recent hearing.
Leitner also said that the technology allowed our "chief potential military adversary" to map any area of the oceans or continental shelves to determine submarine routing schemes or where missile-launching or intelligence gathering submarines may operate undetected just off the coast of the U.S.
"The ultimate nightmare would be a close-in, submarine-launched cruise-missile attack upon the continental U.S. to which we are completely vulnerable and defenseless."
Leitner fought a "lonely battle" to keep the technology out of Beijing's clutches, to no avail.
"The zealous advocates of the treaty in several government agencies saw to it that the technology was provided to the People's Republic of China so as not to undermine the "spirit of the treaty," said Leitner.
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