Duncan Hunter
National Security Bump!
Posted on 04/20/2007 8:33:39 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
The latest national security disaster regarding sensitive nuclear data missing from the Los Alamos National Laboratory should cause the nation to broaden its focus on the Clinton-Gore security apparatus. Instead of viewing the Los Alamos tragedy in a vacuum, the American people should place the situation in context of other security disasters which have occurred over the past eight years.
The Clinton-Gore security gap is founded on, but not limited to, four major failures:
1. Suspected spy at Los Alamos: In August of 1997, the director of the FBI, Louis Freeh, told President Clinton's then-secretary of Energy, Frederico Pena, and Undersecretary Elizabeth Moler, that the resident scientist, Wen Ho Lee, should be removed from classified areas because he was a suspected spy for Communist China.
Despite this recommendation, Lee was allowed to maintain access to Section X, which contains America's most critical nuclear data at Los Alamos, for another 17 months until his ultimate removal in December 1998.
During that time, the director of Los Alamos National Laboratories, John Browne, was never directed by Clinton's Department of Energy leadership to remove Wen Ho Lee from accessing our secret data.
Seemingly, administration officials did not see the urgency, or did not have the time to place a two-minute phone call, to have a suspected spy removed from our nation's most sensitive secrets and, consequently, left him in place for almost a year and a half.
2. Inadequate tracking of supercomputers: High-performance computers, otherwise known as "supercomputers," can facilitate the development of nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles and other advanced conventional weapons systems. For this reason, the export of these supercomputers is regulated by the United States government to prevent our enemies from utilizing this technology to develop weapons systems that will ultimately be used against us.
Ignoring the potential national security consequences, the Clinton administration announced a relaxation of export controls for supercomputers in January of 1996. Between November 1997 and November 1998, the Clinton-Gore administration allowed 191 high-performance supercomputers to be exported to Communist China. Of this number, only one was checked by the Clinton administration to ensure that it wasn't being used in weapons development.
3. Loral Corp. technology transfer to China: In the aftermath of three failed launches of American-built satellites on Chinese rockets, Hughes and Loral corporations transferred missile design information to China without obtaining the legally required licenses.
In 1996, Loral Corp. was found by the Department of Defense to have harmed U.S. security by providing critical missile technology to the Chinese. This transferred technology has improved China's Long March missiles, some of which are armed with nuclear warheads and aimed at U.S. cities.
Despite the conclusions of the DOD investigation regarding this technology transfer and the recommendation by the Justice Department that Loral and Hughes be denied special licenses to launch future satellites from China, President Clinton provided Loral with a China satellite launch waiver in 1998.
4. Nuclear secret hard-drives missing at Los Alamos: In June 2000, it was revealed to the U.S. public that two hard-drives containing critical information on U.S. nuclear weapons were misplaced at Los Alamos. These disks were later "found" behind a copy machine.
As America debates which administrators should be fired, suspended or disciplined, it becomes clear that none of these small measures will be adequate.
The security gap is so strongly rooted in the anti-security policies and incompetence at the highest levels, that it can only be closed by a clean sweep of those responsible for creating it.
The American people must realize that a Gore administration would be populated by many of those responsible for the failures of the Clinton administration. Rearranging the deck chairs will not save the ship of U.S. security. The new team must be competent, professional and pro-defense. That means it can't be Al Gore's team.
Love it though. He'd completely uproot the corruption in the CIA and our other intelligence agencies, IMHO.
Sam: Quick confirmation. This from your dad?
Everyone else: Hunter ping.
Oh you bet he is. Were it not for Hunter and a few other good men like him, the military would have been eviscerated even more by Clinton. And to my knowledge, he’s the only actual candidate who can see threats beyond Islam, particularly with regards to Islam.
As a matter of fact, IIRC, he was the one who called Murtha out on the “Get out of Iraq now!” bit by sponsoring a bill calling for an up-or-down vote on withdrawal from Iraq. If you recall, it was the bill where only 3 voted for withdrawal.
And .. Bill Gertz wrote a great book, “Enemies: How America’s foes steal our vital secrets - and how we let it happen”.
Bill’s book pretty much confirms everything Hunter says.
Bump for later reading on the best candidate in the race.
Los Alamos is managed by what? A University loaded with commies!
Excellent article. Hunter Bump
Thank God for Duncan Hunter.
I didn’t see Bill Richardson mentioned as US Secretary of Energy under Bill Clinton from 1998-2001. It seems like Richardson was just visiting the North Koreans not too long ago if memory serves me right.
Good post.
How has Rep Hunter been on the supposedly benign view of China that many in the Bush Administration seem to have?
Hunter’s pretty much the only guy in Congress who’s even mentioned China in a negative light. He’s deeply concerned about their military build-up.
Just a plain old BTTT.
>He’d completely uproot the corruption in the CIA and our other intelligence agencies, IMHO>
No wonder the Communist MSM gives him no publicity! God bless this man! Prayers are needed to keep him safe. I feel Duncan Hunter is THE man for these treacherous times. It is up to each one of us to see that the American people know that there IS an alternative to a lesser evil. Duncan Hunter, clearly head and shoulders above the rest of the field!
“I believe that this espionage case — the Chinese — is the worst in the history of this country. They got just about everything that we have and you’ll see it in the out years in their development of their weapons.” Senator Richard Shelby
Well, folks, Senator Shelby’s words have become fact.
HEAR Sen. Richard Shelby
http://members.aol.com/hclint0n/rshelesp.mov
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