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OKCSubmariner, in your post you said Bush senior gave the US neutron bomb technology to the Chinese and French about ten years ago in an act of great treason.

That doesn’t agree with the information I have on the Downside Legacy:

CBS 3/10/99 “…CBS News has learned there is yet another top-secret investigation of Chinese nuclear espionage. This case involves the theft of information about America's neutron weapons program from the Lawrence Livermore Weapons Lab, CBS News Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports. It's a separate case from the one involving nuclear secrets stolen from Los Alamos Weapons Lab and America's W-88 nuclear warhead. The neutron case has been under investigation for several years, and remains active and unsolved. The U.S. has conducted tests, but there are no neutron weapons in the U.S. arsenal...”

The Washington Times 3/22/99 Joyce Howard Price “…According to Newsweek, U.S. officials investigating Chinese espionage believe China, over the past two decades, may have acquired design information about seven U.S. nuclear warheads, including the neutron bomb developed in the early 1970s. They believe China may also have stolen secrets about U.S. efforts to develop a nuclear weapon able to create an electromagnetic pulse "that would short out anything in an enemy nation that uses electricity." The CIA and a team of top nuclear-weapons experts came to these conclusions, Newsweek says, after CIA analysts pored through data gleaned from U.S. espionage against China. The material included years of communications intercepts and revelations from a 1995 defector involved in China's nuclear program. The material -- much of it written in Chinese and never read --had been stored in CIA computers and forgotten about until now. Newsweek said that when the CIA showed the evidence to several nuclear-weapons experts "they practically fainted." The magazine quoted one unnamed U.S. official close to the probe: "The Chinese penetration is total. They are deep, deep into the labs' black programs."….”

NewsMax.com 5/30/99 Inside Cover "...One of Inside Cover's favorite media whoppers about America's newfound national security hemorrhage is this: Most of the secret information the Chinese now have access to disappeared over the transom during the Reagan and Bush administrations. Not according to the actual chronology available in the Cox report. Turns out, of the eleven most serious episodes of nuke-related tech tranfers noted by the bi-partisan panel, eight took place during the Clinton years. Except for data on the neutron bomb, which China obtained during the Carter administration, not a single serious breach of nuclear security came to light before 1993...."

THE WASHINGTON TIMES 3/9/00 Bill Gertz “….The report mentions the FBI case involving Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientist Peter H. Lee, who gave China secret information about the neutron bomb - which kills with radiation instead of a large blast -in 1985 and 1997. Lee pleaded guilty to espionage in 1997. Sen. Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania Republican, said during a Senate hearing Tuesday that Lee was sentenced only to community service and served no jail time despite his involvement in "a very egregious case involving the disclosure of nuclear secrets in 1985 and the disclosure of certain materials about detecting submarines in 1997."

San Jose Mercury News 4/13/00 Dan Stober “….. A congressional committee has made further allegations against Min, without mentioning him by name. ``In addition to design information about the W-70 (the neutron bomb), this suspect may have provided to the PRC (People's Republic of China) additional classified information about other U.S. weapons that could have significantly accelerated the PRC's nuclear weapons program,'' according to the 1999 report of the U.S. House of Representatives select committee headed by Rep. Christopher Cox, a Republican from Newport Beach…… To the FBI, Min is known as ``Tiger Trap,'' the code name given to the investigation of his activities… The original neutron bomb was built at Lawrence Livermore in the 1970s; the Chinese first tested a neutron bomb in 1988.…”

San Jose Mercury News 4/13/00 Dan Stober “…..Min was eventually confronted and questioned by FBI agent William Cleveland, who was then the chief spy-catcher in the bureau's San Francisco office. Min maintained his innocence. Min was not the only person questioned. The President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board reported last year, somewhat cryptically, that there was no prosecution in the neutron bomb case because neither the ``suspect'' nor the ``foreign agent'' would confess….. The case against Min, while never officially closed, grew cold in the early-1980s, according to the report of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Officials were then surprised to discover that Min took a half-dozen trips to China in the mid-1980s, according to knowledgeable officials……”

San Jose Mercury News 4/13/00 Dan Stober “…..Min has had a business license for Min's Consulting Associates since at least 1983. It and his other business, Grand Monde Trading, share an upstairs office with other small businesses in downtown Danville. Today, according to Loh, Min does mostly consulting work. ``If an American company wants to start doing business in China, he can help you do that,'' Loh said. For years, Loh said, Min has helped arrange scholarships for Chinese students to study in the United States, particularly students in law and business… Min has no love for the Nationalists or the mainland Communists, instead supporting Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party, Loh said. ``Min is pro-independence, so why would he give information to communist China?'' Loh said. ……”