Posted on 08/01/2006 9:12:07 AM PDT by americaprd
Despite his vocal campaign today, Sestak served in the Clinton White House as the "silent" watchdog over U.S. Defense policy. The reason why I can legitimately call Sestak the "silent" watchdog is because at no time during the various Clinton scandals did Sestak raise any alarm.
For example, the admiral did nothing to stop Chinese espionage from obtaining a vast array of American military technology. Sestak prides himself as being a patriot and an expert in military space technology, yet the records show that he remained silent when encrypted satellite communications systems, missile nose cone designs, and radiation-hardened chip technology were virtually given to the Chinese army.
He toed the White House line, remaining silent while memo after memo passed to his boss, Tony Lake. One such secret 1996 White House memo shows that Loral requested that President Clinton delay a pending waiver for a satellite export at the same time that Loral was under investigation by the FBI for sending advanced satellite technology to China without a waiver...
All of the violations took place during Sestak's term as a national security adviser in the Clinton White House. To this day, the admiral-turned-candidate has said nothing about the money that passed to Clinton from the Chinese army or the advanced space technology that passed by his desk on its way to Beijing.
In comparison, his opponent, Curt Weldon, objected loudly and acted quickly. Weldon led the effort in Congress to halt the wild exports to the Chinese army. Weldon ignored the special interests such as Loral, Hughes and Lockheed and succeeded in getting the oversight for space technology exports back under Defense Department control.
Still, Sestak holds the record for all-time Clinton crony contributors giving money to his campaign. The givers include Madeline Albright, Sandy Berger, Richard Clarke, John Deutch, Jamie Gorelick, Anthony Lake, John Podesta, and Daniel Poneman. Many of the Sestak contributors also gave the U.S. public hours of amusement with a wide variety of Clintonoid scandals....
There are a dozen issues and scandals that Joe Sestak could have acted upon. China, North Korea, Iraq, Iran, and Osama bin Laden all passed by his desk without a comment. Much like the watchdog that did not bark, Sestak did nothing when the situation called for action.
Sorry, I should note that this is just an excerpt. For the entire article -- with a lot more detail on these issues -- please read the piece on the NewsMax website.
The new CNO relieved Setstak of his duties within 24 hours of taking the job, for command climate issues in his shop. That says a lot.
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Weldon is a greenie, but I don't mind it too much. I'm more concerned about national security and pro-life issues. Did you see NARAL maxed out to Sestak's campaign? Even his campaign spokesperson used to work for NARAL.
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Ditto that.
Chinagate Ping
Alamogirl, any of your work on Chinagate ever turn up this guy's name?
There is a reason what the Clinton want Weldon out of Office
Thanks for the ping - but sorry, the name is not familiar to me.
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