Posted on 01/28/2007 3:50:54 PM PST by Graybeard58
During the Cold War, Western leaders characterized communist China's armed forces as long on manpower and short on military technology. Jan. 11, a perfectly aimed Chinese missile blew an old weather satellite to smithereens, demonstrating that China has potential to wage modern, high-tech war. What happened in the interim is a scandal that makes Watergate, Monicagate and all the other -gates look like spitting-on-the-sidewalk offenses.
During the 1996 presidential election campaign, the Democratic National Committee under then-General Chairman Christopher J. Dodd (yes, that Chris Dodd) accepted large, laundered contributions from the Red Chinese and from U.S. industrialists eager to enrich themselves via technology transfers to China. That same year, the Clinton administration helpfully shifted authority to approve such transfers from the State Department, which opposed them, to the Commerce Department, which thought they were just fine.
As the bipartisan Cox Report documented in 1999, Chinese spies were busy stealing secrets from federal nuclear-weapons research laboratories during the same period. The Cox Report focused on these thefts. Later, the government successfully prosecuted Loral Space and Communications Corp. and Hughes Electronics Corp. on the grounds they illegally transferred weapons technology to China.
The Center for Responsive Politics reports "Loral CEO Bernard L. Schwartz was the single largest individual donor to the Democrats (during the 1996 campaign cycle). Since 1995, Schwartz and his wife Irene contributed $1,122,000 to federal campaigns, of which $1,089,750 went to Democratic candidates and party committees."
We noted in a May 1999 editorial, "There is mounting evidence that weapons technology the Chinese would have spent decades developing is now securely in their hands. ... It's just a matter of time before China makes its move." In those pre-9/11 days, some may have dismissed that forecast as hyperbole. Not any more.
China's capacity to fulfill its longstanding quest to engulf democratic Taiwan, sell advanced weapons to U.S. adversaries and engage in other international mischief is demonstrably greater than it was during the brief, squandered interregnum between the Cold War and the current conflicts in the Middle East and Afghanistan.
As Sen. Dodd well knows, Vladimir Lenin once said, "The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them." But the verdict of history should fall most heavily on the corrupt political leaders who made the sale possible.
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The Clinton's release more info on a slow weekend.
But, but people can buy cheaper xpods and iboxes. /s
How much Chinese money is flowing to Hillary now?
I would say that Chris Dodd is the Democrat most deserving of prosecution for treason. And he beat out a lot of others.
I tend to blame Clinton less and free trade and globalism more for our loose controls. Corporate America is too focus on profits motive than the inconvenient tech export controls. Loral basicly determined that if China can launch their customers' satellites, they stand to make tons of money compared to their competitors. The Chinese basicly said they can do it but they will need the precision guidance tech to launch the satellites into orbit accurately. Problem is DoD will not release the technology for export. Loral motivated by globalism and not nationalism wanted the profits badly that they were willing to lobby for it. If Clinton had lost the election, the GOP admin, under heavy lobbying by Loral will eventually release the technology to China because it enhances free trade. The China Loral scandal is not about Clinton, but about the free trade/globalist mentality in US corporations and government positions. Loral China is only the first of many stupid short term profit and the future be damn deals in the pipeline. Just look at our open borders policy.
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That Dodd-Kennedy waitress sandwich scenario is a sickening thought, can you imagine those two big fat pieces of blubber on top and bottom of a woman? Too bad somebody didn't have a camcorder back then and could have put it on YouTube. Of course they still would have gotten away with it and the filmmaker would have been rubbed out.
Bingo! I commented before about how as DNC Chair he sat in one of the network's booths giving commentary during the GOP convention. He was in the Clinton fundraising up to his neck yet in all the discussion of selling the White House, Ice Teas, etc., his name was conspicuously missing.
The money was well earned and well spent. It helped Clinton win the '96 election. After all, that was more important than keeping a few musty old military-industrial-complex secrets, right? /s/
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