Posted on 10/18/2004 3:38:18 PM PDT by focusandclarity
Kerry Took Cash From Chinese Military Intelligence
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.
"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."
Who is he kidding?
Well, now.
has this been reported in the msm???
Kerry already has a "traitorous" rap sheet a mile long, yet they refuse to exploit IT.
BTTT
Wassaaap with Burger, Rather, et al?
As Lynn Cheney says... "He's a BAD, BAD MAN!!!"
They didnt exactly burn the Clintons on Mena Arkansas drug smuggling operation
probably the biggest in the history of America
With a list of bodies about as long as the road between Mena and DC
http://www.judicialwatch.org/3800.shtml
Be sure to read the two PDFs linked there.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/archive/2004/chungkerry1.pdf
http://www.judicialwatch.org/archive/2004/chungkerry2.pdf
Redacted FBI reports, but there's quite enough visible.
...wow...i mean....really...wow...this guy must be kidding if he wants my vote.
I like Lynn Cheney, she is so cute and well spoken.
Another huge mystery. Murder, mayhem, and treason aren't enough to prod the GOP into taking aggressive action against Democrats.
When a Pubbie so much as jay walks, the Democrats make a federal case out of it.
We're in this mess because Republicans confuse "compassion" with "justice," or because they fear the MSM/Dem slime machine.
Before the grovelers appear and whine that this is just a story from News max, below is the link to the search "Kerry met with Liu Chaoying":
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=Kerry%20met%20with%20Liu%20Chaoying
Grovelers... I like that description of the nihilists among us...
Do they fear the MSM/Dem Slime Machine?
I'm not sure.
I do, however, think that those raw FBI files that mysterously turned up in the Clinton White House are another matter.
NBC: Kerry Unwittingly Assisted Chinese Spy,/a>
Yesterday afternoon, NBC reported that John Kerry provided material assistance to Liu Chaoying [spelled differently throughout the article], an arms dealer and espionage agent for China, in exchange for campaign contributions:
In 1996, Senator John Kerry was locked in a hard-fought and close reelection campaign with Massachusetts Governor William Weld. Kerry was the policy wonk, noted for his expertise in international crime, arms and drug dealing, and intelligence. ... [Johnny] Chung gave $10,000 to Kerry's campaign -- most of it illegally -- hosted a fund-raising party in Beverly Hills, and threw in an extra $10,000 to honor Kerry at a Democratic Senate Campaign Committee event. Kerry eventually returned all the Chung money.In return, Kerry opened a door for a friend of Chung: Liu Chaoying.
So the man who claims he opposes special interests and claims he can't be bought certainly seems available for rent when necessary. While helping contributors and friends of contributors happens all the time, seldom does one see a politician who participates so blatantly and then turn around and get so sanctimonious about it.
But Kerry's hypocrisy isn't really the story -- his bad judgment in his "friends" presents a clear danger to the US:
The woman, Liu Chao Ying, worked in high ranking positions for two companies responsible for brokering one of the biggest and most controversial arms sales of the 1990's -- a $300-million missile deal with Pakistan. The two companies were sanctioned by the United States for their deals with Pakistan. ..."Who is Colonel Liu?" asked William Triplett, a former Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffer and author of two books on Chinese influence in US politics. "She began her military intelligence career with Chinese Navy intelligence. She has been, in succession, assistant to the President of the China National Precision Machinery Import-Export Corporation and the China Great Wall Industries Corporation, both of whom have been sanctioned twice -- in 1991 and 1993 -- by the United States for ballistic missiles sales to Pakistan. She later became president of China Aerospace Industrial Holdings Ltd. and she made illegal campaign contributions to the Clinton Gore ticket and John Kerry in 1996.
"She is a communist,” says Triplett; she is a high-tech spy; she is an arms broker and she met Bill Clinton at a fund raiser and John Kerry in his Senate office."
Kerry wasn't able to swing everything Liu wanted, which was a listing for her company on the stock exchange, but Kerry, as a member of the Senate Banking Committee, did arrange a meeting for the Chinese spy with the Securities and Exchange Commission after Chung slipped his 1996 campaign some illegal cash. Nor can Kerry plead ignorance of Liu's illegal arms dealings, unless he's so vapid that he doesn't vet the people to whom he gives such high-level assistance. Liu's companies had already been sanctioned by the US twice: once in 1991 and again in 1993 for illegal arms sales to Pakistan -- giving Pakistan a missile system capable of nuclear-arms delivery.
Kerry met with Chung in 1996 through staff connections with Richard Sullivan, the DNC staffer who had gotten $351,000 from Chung for the Clinton/Gore ticket and other Democratic candidates. In the last week of July, he met with Kerry, who agreed to fax over a letter to the SEC (which reports to the Senate Banking Committee) and his staffers did so while Chung watched. Chung promised to support Kerry, and later did so through a number of illegal campaign contributions.
And what was the ultimate source of the money? Chung later told investigators and an open Congressional hearing that General Ji Shengde, the number two in Chinese military intelligence might have been the ultimate source, describing a meeting in the basement of a Hong Kong restaurant where Ji told him of a plan to funnel $300,000 to the Clinton campaign, explaining “we like your president”.
Not only did the Chinese like our president, apparently they liked Kerry too, and for much the same reason: he was accessible and he delivered when asked. Chung later pled guilty to a number of charges and cooperated with federal investigators looking into Chinese election tampering in 1996.
So here we have John Kerry, who in the middle of a war wants us to trust him with the Presidency, taking money and giving favors not just to campaign contributors, not just twice-sanctioned nuclear-arms dealers, but to Chinese espionage agents -- by using his position on the Banking Committee to pressure the SEC into meeting with Liu. Is this corruption and catastrophically bad judgment what we want to see in the White House? Kerry showed a tremendous lack of judgment and discernment, even if he didn't know Liu was a spy; her involvement in illegal arms sales would have been a matter of public record. Kerry was either too greedy to properly check the backgrounds of people with whom he "asked" the SEC to meet or he was too stupid; in either case, he's hardly the man to protect the US, especially in wartime.
Should have added this is from the Blog "Captains Quarters" .
The Chinese just put the data package from a spy satellite into a residential neighbourhood the other day. Evidently the stuff Clinton sold 'em included the messed-up plans for Mars Climate Orbiter, or maybe Genesis (to name two recent satellites that bounced).
Hot tip to Liu: when you copy the stuff the Dems sell you, have your own engineers check it over before you just go building it.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
I as many don`t understand why this doesn`t get reported. The bias in the MSM aside, they cannot keep ignoring news. They are making us out to be a communist state already. The government controls the news, except in this case, the controllers aren`t even in power. The PEOPLE wanted Bush, we elected him. The MSM needs to get that through their block heads. We REALLY need to do something to counteract the MSM.
Unwittingly?
Yeah sure!
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