Posted on 01/11/2002 2:08:31 PM PST by expose
Loral fined $14m over China missiles claim
By Edward Alden and Peter Spiegel in Washington
Loral, the US satellite company, said it would pay $14m to the US State Department to settle a claim that it improperly gave technical information to China that may have aided that country's nuclear missile programme.
Loral also said the Justice Department had ended its investigation of the company and would not pursue any criminal charges.
The fine marks the last chapter in a bitter political battle in Washington in which Republicans alleged that during the Clinton administration the US had turned a blind eye to actions by Loral and other satellite makers that may have threatened national security.
Loral agreed to the fine, which will be spread out over seven years, without admitting or denying the government's charges.
The investigation arose out of the 1996 explosion of a Chinese rocket carrying one of Loral's Intelsat satellites. Loral subsequently took part in a technical investigation of the launch failure, which it inadvertently shared with the Chinese. The US Defence Department found that the technical data given to China may have helped the Chinese improve the accuracy of their military rockets and missiles, which use similar technology. Experts have since questioned whether anything of military value was given to China.
Bernard Schwartz, Loral chief executive, said on Wednesday the data were mistakenly sent to China by a Loral employee without approval by the US government, and expressed regret. He said the company had since greatly improved its oversight.
The Loral incident led to a detailed congressional investigation, which concluded China had been stealing an array of US military secrets. It resulted in severe restrictions on US satellite exports imposed in 1999.
The Justice Department had also been investigating a separate incident involving Hughes Electronics, another US satellite maker. Richard Dore, a Hughes spokesman, said on Wednesday the company had also been informed by Justice that no criminal charges would be filed.
But Hughes lawyers will meet State Department officials this month to discuss their own settlement of the matter and whether a fine will be necessary. "We've contended all along that we followed the government guidelines," said Mr Dore.
Hughes was accused of helping improve Chinese rocket and missile technology while investigating launch failures. The satellite-building unit of Hughes, Hughes Space and Communications, was sold to Boeing in 2000, but Hughes retained liability for the technology transfer investigation.
Lockheed Martin also agreed to pay $13m in 2000 after a company it acquired was accused of helping a Hong Kong company with ties to Beijing. <P.
Good luck. Luis doesn't give the reader any answers what-so-ever to worthy questions.
Exactly right!
DEFLECTION.
Everything I've posted relates to the topic at hand. Brown was the Secretary of Commerce ... the agency that had to approve the transfer of all that previously restricted techonology given to the Chinese communists by Loral . Brown threatened to expose what was going on ... so they murdered him to keep him silent. There is SWORN TESTIMONY to that effect, you know.
Why are you RUNNING Luis, if you are the conservative you CLAIM to be? Why do you keep trying to "move-on" in the face of such serious crimes as treason, murder, mass murder and election tampering BY DEMOCRATS? Why can't you answer a single ONE of the questions I asked in my last post. Do you have a problem with FACTS Luis? Facts that might seriously damage the democRAT party and liberalism? Is that what you are protecting?
On top of being an amateur Lawyer, you are now an amateur detective as well as an amateur forensic examiner?
Sort of like Quincy and Perry Mason rolled into one?
Why?
So readers don't get to see the dishonesty you tried to pull in this thread when you re-posted William Wallace's post to me from another thread? ...you know, the one with the lies that I had pointed out on that other thread but that you chose not to mention ... to ignore?
So readers don't see the number of times you have avoided answering simple questions ... the number of times you've RUN from the facts in the Brown case and other instances of Clinton/DNC criminal activity?
So readers don't see you acting like a democRAT, spreading democRAT DISINFORMATION in order to protect what else but CRIMINAL democRATS?
Still RUNNING I see.
My, how times change, eh?
Well yeah, if you wanna call it that way. Five years of experience in Constitution and Business Law re legal research reviewing case law and two and a half years year of writing briefs all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court by myself. I am also familar with the tax codes and have been doing my tax returns since I was sixteen. Upon finding out that such returns are on a "voluntary" basis I've stopped "volunteering".
Yeah sorta like that.
Let me have a good laugh at your legal prowess.
Please define the crime of treason for me.
Treason means to breach one's government despite the oath they swore to uphold to protect the government and the nation, by levying war against the government by such means as aiding, abetting, or comforting the enemy.
Who is the enemy? China, Russia, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Cuba.
How many hundred million did they get from the Chinese (minus Klinton's cut of course)? Hell of a deal. Klinton promised that they would catch some negative publicity but would wind up keeping 97% of the money. He was right. The defense industry doesn't care about negative publicity about its contractors.
The $14 million is just a cost of doing business, and a damn low one at that.
This is what Article 2, section 4 says:
"The President, Vice President and all Civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
How in the world did you get "Treason means to breach one's government despite the oath they swore to uphold to protect the government and the nation, by levying war against the government by such means as aiding, abetting, or comforting the enemy." from Article 2, Section 4?
Your client is in deep doo-doo!
Here's what treason means:
Article 3, Section 3, US Constitution:
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court."
"The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted."
That means that treason can ONLY be two things:
1) Leviying war against the US--Chief Justice John Marshall said this on his thoughts on the trials of Aaron Burr and his associates: "However flagitious may be the crime of conspiring to subvert by force the government of our country, such conspiracy is not treason. To conspire to levy war, and actually to levy war, are distinct offences. The first must be brought into open action by the assemblage of men for a purpose treasonable in itself, or the fact of levying war cannot have been committed. So far has this principle been carried, that . . . it has been determined that the actual enlistment of men to serve against the government does not amount to levying of war."
Best as I know, Clinton does not fall under tha levying war part.
That leaves the next sentence: "...or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort." The problem with that half of the argument, is that at the moment in time that Clinton did whatever he may, or may have not done, China was not an enemy of the US, you and I might think so, but we are not at war, they are trading partners, and we maintain embassies in each other's countries.
Last, but not least, the Framers took great pains to tell us exactly HOW we could determine treason; "...No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court."
"...overt act...", did Bill Clinton, in full view, and within ear shot of two witnesses, say to Schwartz "go and sell secret technology that will harm the nation to the Chinese", can you, or anyone, produce those two witnesses?
Or do you expect Slick Willie to break down and confess in open Court?
Now, you either believe that we should adhere, protect, and defend the US Constitution or not.
In some cases, you have to defend it, even if the bad guys benefit from your actions.
That's the difficult part about being a conservative, you have to live by what you preach.
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