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Don Hodel, who held two cabinet posts (Energy and Interior) during the Reagan Administration, and who served subsequently as chief executive of Focus on the Family and president of the Christian Coalition, warned attendees at the May 8 conference on Y2K AND THE PRESIDENCY (sponsored by the Conservative Caucus): "[I]magine with me, it's the State of the Union address, January first, January twenthieth, the Year 2000. Let's imagine further that Y2K is really only a modest problem in the United States, because if it's a massive problem, what I'm going to describe becomes a very much easier step for the ...

Monday June 21 5:48 PM ET Two-Day Security Review Closes U.S. Nuclear Labs SANTA FE, New Mexico (Reuters) The nation's three nuclear weapons laboratories shut down operations Monday for a two-day security review in the wake of allegations of Chinese espionage and lax oversight, lab officials said. The so-called standdown at Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico and Livermore Laboratory in California comes after heavy criticism in Congress of security standards at the labs. ``A standdown is a very unusual thing,'' John Bass, a spokesman for Los Alamos lab, said. During the two days, employees will review ...

Briefing to Congress on National Defense Crisis By Rep. Duncan Hunter The following was presented to Congress in April 1999. More information can be found on Rep. Hunter's website. While our national defense has been cut almost in half since Operation Desert Storm, there have been 26 military deployments during the past seven years compared to only ten deployments over the preceding 40 years. Right now, there are 265,000 American troops in 135 countries. The Clinton-Gore Administration is putting our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines in danger by continually asking the military to "do more with less." Inadequate training time, ...

Understanding the security disaster that has befallen the United States requires an understanding that the leakage of America's secrets proceeded along two parallel tracks. One track was espionage, the other was a political-economic track through the legal commercial activities of the United States government -- in particular through its political oversight of these commercial activities, which in past administrations had included formal controls of sensitive technologies that the Clinton team systematically dismantled. Political contributors to the Clinton-Gore campaigns played key roles in promoting the dismantling process. A central figure in the economic track of Chinese activities was the vice ...

The evidence suggests only one conclusion. The reason Clinton is protecting China's spies and their communist masters is because in protecting them he is protecting himself. The China strategy is fully intelligible in the frame of Clinton's strategy on other matters: The president has triangulated with China's communist government in pursuit of his own political interest at the expense of the United States. This is not about loyalties that Clinton might have to communist ideology or communist dictators. On this, Clinton's record is clear: He has no loyalties, except to himself. It is the solipsistic nihilism that we have ...

THE MANCHURIAN PRESIDENCY part2 Indeed, the government's awareness of many of the losses dates back several years, during which time the Clinton reaction was exactly the same: Continue on the destructive course. According to Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., a member of the Cox Committee, at least 15 government officials have experienced the wrath of the Clinton administration because they tried to protect America's secrets from being transferred to China. One notorious case was described in a recent Wall Street Journal article by a former security official, Michael Ledeen. According to documents obtained by Ledeen, a mid-level government arms control ...

The Manchurian presidency The worst national security disaster in history came about because President Clinton had loyalties not to foreign communists, but to the Chinese funders who got him elected. - - - - - - - - - - - - BY DAVID HOROWITZ June 21, 1999 | Thanks to the Cox Report, we now know that the seven years of the Clinton presidency have coincided with the most massive breach of military security in American history. As a result of the calculated degrading of security controls at America's nuclear laboratories, the Chinese communists have been able to ...

Published: Sunday, June 20, 1999 JOE SOUCHERAY Local politicos employ sliding moral scales for Olson/Soliah When a fellow wrote the other day that Sara Jane Olson had possibly transformed herself from a 1970s revolutionary into a modern-day DFL Party activist it was merely speculation based on the initial comments of her friends. Olson, thought to be Kathleen Soliah, was described as a pacifist, gun-control advocate and a shining light of volunteerism. It turns out that not only was Olson a party activist, she was particularly close to Andy Dawkins and worked for Dawkins on his 1993 mayoral campaign. Why, ...

THE GRAD WHO GOT RELIGION Nick Becker Wanted a High School Diploma Without the Prayer. He Ended Up With a Reputation. By Lyndsey Layton Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, June 22, 1999; Page C01 Life has changed in the neat gray house on the loping country lane. There are sleepless nights and tense conversations, and the telephone now has an unlisted number. Because you can't be too cautious in the days after you've been labeled the Young Atheist of Calvert County. In his sneakers and thrift store bowling shirt with "Cathy" embroidered on the chest, Nick Becker doesn't look like ...

China Says U.S. Wants To Become 'Lord Of Earth' BEIJING (Reuters) - China compared the United States to Nazi Germany Tuesday and said NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia reflected Washington's ambition to become ``Lord of the Earth.'' ``If you ask which country wants to become 'the Lord of the Earth' as the then Nazi Germany had tried to, there is only one answer,'' said a commentary in the People's Daily, the flagship newspaper of China's ruling Communist Party. ``It is the hegemonism-pursuing United States.'' In likening the United States to Nazi Germany, the newspaper cited its massive defense budget, the bombing ...

ALERT: House Forfeiture Vote This Wednesday, June 23 -------- PLEASE COPY AND DISTRIBUTE -------- VISIT: DRCnet Forfeiture Sources have informed us that H.R. 1658, an extraordinarily important bill to reform civil asset forfeiture and protect the rights of the innocent and the accused, passed out of the Judiciary Committee by a vote of 27-3 and is scheduled to go to a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, June 23, tomorrow! Under current law, the government can seize your home, car, or bank accounts, on the basis of testimony by paid, confidential informants, and never ...

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, June 22 - Unexploded NATO ordnance was blamed for the deaths of two Gurkha British soldiers of the international peace implementation force KFOR and two civilians in a village near Pristina Monday, Belgrade media reported. The incident occurred at the village of Nekovce, 30 km southwest of Pristina, when the Gurkhas were reported clearing the village school. More than 50 pieces of unexploded ordnance had been placed in a ditch and one device went off, the reports said. The KFOR commander, British Lt. Gen. Mike Jackson, told reporters soon after the incident: "However much we talk about the ...

(CNS) - Nicholas Lassonde, an A student whose graduation speech at Amador Valley High School was censored by school authorities because he sought to urge his classmates to follow God, is considering suing the school on the grounds his right to free speech was violated. The school district in Pleasanton, California, required Lassonde to remove religious references from his speech on Friday because they felt it would be a violation of the separation of church and state to allow him to talk about God. Lassonde wanted to tell his classmates not to put their trust "in princes and mortal men ...

Summary: Too Fast, Too Big, No Legitimate Congressional Involvement--and Not Limited to Juvenile Crime This Issue Paper addresses some of most obvious problems with the Senate Bill 254, and with any House of Representatives counterpart which copies provisions from S. 254. S. 254 and its House counterpart are massive bills--far too large for any legislator to examine carefully before voting-especially when bills are brought to the floor almost as fast as they are drafted. Such mammoth legislation is an abdication of the responsibilities of representative government; if representatives do not even know what is in the bill they are ...

Here they are folks, those who have been "honored" after appearing on Sunday's news shows PROFESSIONALS' MONTHLYBe sure to check out the "THINKING MAN" cartoon at the bottom of the page.Also, since he's been doing the rounds to promote his book (SHADOW), it is important to note Mr. Woodward's initial position on the Lewinsky scandal. A critique of his (and Mr. Bernstein's) appearance on "Meet the Press" from 8/98 can be found at PROFESSIONALS' MONTHLY. Following is an excerpt:Almost exactly 24 years ago this week, an historical event took place. Amazingly, we seem to be living it all over again ...

TESTIMONY OF DARRELL SCOTT FATHER OF TWO VICTIMS OF COLUMBINE HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTING LITTLETON, COLORADO BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON CRIME, HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES THURSDAY, MAY 27,1999 2:00 P.M. 2141 RAYBURN HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING Since the dawn of creation there has been both good and evil in the heart of men and of women. We all contain the seeds of kindness or the seeds of violence. The death of my wonderful daughter, Rachel Joy Scott, and the deaths of that heroic teacher and the other children who died must not be in vain. Their blood cries ...

Giving up citizenship in the old country Having done everything he could to ruin his native state's good name, President Clinton can't wait to be from somewhere else. Anywhere else. He says he and Hillary will live in New York whether she runs for the U.S. Senate or not, and he expects to change his voter registration so he can vote for her. This lifts an enormous burden from the backs of 2.5 million Arkansans, a lot of whom were giddy with anticipation seven years ago, exuberantly expectant about what a native son in the White House would do for ...

No spy charges against Wen Ho Lee China espionage case collapses By Martin McLaughlin 19 June 1999 Use this version to print Despite the avalanche of publicity about alleged Chinese spying at US nuclear weapons laboratories, federal officials have concluded that the scientist who has been the principal target of the allegations, Wen Ho Lee, cannot be prosecuted for espionage and may not have committed any criminal offense. Reports in the Washington Post May 24 and the New York Times June 14, each citing prosecutors and other unnamed federal officials, confirm that the China spy scare is essentially a politically ...