Posted on 06/22/2003 7:00:50 PM PDT by Lando Lincoln
Chinese spying and the White House
Peter Zhang
BrookesNews.Com
Saturday 14 June 2003
I was going to write on the Korean situation but the attempt by the Democrats and their media allies to smear President Bush and belittle his Iraqi success persuaded me that I should turn my attention to Chinese spying and former President Clinton's intelligence scandal.
I know that telling people I told you so is not always the tactful thing to do, but considering the current situation and Clinton's betrayal it has become a political imperative. What still needs to be investigated is the bribes that the Chinese military paid into the Clintons' election campaign. I have already pointed out that Chinese military intelligence would never have given this politically sensitive action the green light without permission from Zhu, Zhang and several other high-ranking party officials. Make no mistake, this operation came from the very top.
Now these men would only have agreed to an operation like this if they had good reason to believe it would not be uncovered. But such a belief suggests that the recipients of the bribes (sorry, contributions) and those like Johnny Chung who acted as conduits for the money honestly believed they were protected at the highest level of American government. And the White House is the highest level. This ". . . comes from Chinese sources whose comments led in only one direction."
Now it was revealed in November 2000 that a CIA report found that China stole invaluable nuclear secrets from the US. What is of particular interest is that a number of people involved with US intelligence argued in private that the report had been deliberately diluted in order to conceal the extent to which the Clinton administration aided Beijing's intelligence operations.
One intelligence analyst was quoted at the time as saying that "The Chinese took the secrets out the door, but the administration held it open for them." Yet I had pointed out in April 1999 that "The Americans gave Clinton the key to the candy store and he sold it to Beijing" (+Clinton and Zhu's cloak and dollars, +The New Australian 19-25 April 1999) This was from my own sources which are greatly inferior to those available to the CIA.
Americans must ask themselves two simple questions: 1. Who ordered the suppression of information that the report omitted? 2. Were these the same people who sabotaged an FBI investigation into the alleged spying activities of a Chinese-born scientist employed at the Los Alamos National Labs and described in one intelligence report as a 'walk-in'. (A person with access to sensitive information who freely makes himself available to another government for intelligence work. The walk-in is now considered to by Wen Ho Lee).
Now most people with a passing knowledge of the scandal still think the whole thing revolves around the Clintons' campaign funding activities. It does not. The whole thing boils down to the Clintons' corrupt nature and their absolute lack of patriotism. As I pointed out at the beginning of November 2000, the Clintons' election campaigns involved millions and not a miserly $300,000 as Zhu falsely stated. Part of the price for Beijing's financial help was to give Chinese agents a virtual free hand. This included John Huang's top-secret clearance, his appointment to the Commerce Department and virtually free reign in the White House.
No matter what high-ranking White House officials at the time claimed, they knew that Huang's position had been bought, though not all could have known the real price. No wonder Chinese officials felt smug on this issue. No matter which way it would have blown, they would have still been in the clear.
If the whole thing had turned sour — so what? They got what they wanted and that was a cheap means of greatly accelerating Beijing's military program at an enormous saving in time and scientific resources. The worst that could have happened from their point of view was for Clinton to have left office in total disgrace. An event that would have still left Beijing completely unmoved.
Some Americans are apparently argued that the CIA report was watered down because no one wanted to tell Clinton what had happened. This is utter nonsense. My own sources have made it clear to me that Clinton fully understood the main thrust of Beijing's funding conditions, though not fully aware of the details, and agreed to them anyway.
His only desire was to win — regardless of the cost to the national interest. It was told to me, and I believe it, that Clinton was indirectly responsible for the gutting of the report. This way he can still claim that an independent CIA report had nothing to say that was significantly damaging to his administration. And woe betide any CIA official who would have challenged this conclusion.
Like all men, Bush makes errors of judgement but he would never knowingly put his country in danger or subvert its national security. This is precisely what the Clintons did and those smear mongering Democrats and their media pals who are now maligning Bush are the same ones who are still covering up the Clintons' treason.
Evidence that the Chinese don't only pay Democrats. You could almost see the frustration in the faces of the younger Republicans going after Clinton with the only weapon they were allowed. They knew what Clinton was guilty of; if we knew it, they most certainly knew it; but they were never allowed to mention it publicly.
The Lewinsky affair became the weapon of choice because it wouldn't cause any collateral damage among Republicans. But going after Clinton for his Chinese connections very well could have unintended consequences. We know Alexander Haig and Kissinger were involved in the Long Beach business from the Chinese side, and Kissinger at least is deeply embedded in Chinese ventures. Bush Sr seems to have some Chinese exposure.
The often repeated line that the Lewinsky affair "didn't rise to the level of impeachment" was, in my opinion, perfectly true. It didn't. The Constitution is very clear; impeachment follows when a president is guilty of bribery or treason.
But both bribery and treason could be easily and reasonably inferred from Clinton's dealings with the Chinese. He met with the head of China's weapons industry more often than he met with Monica. The Democrats have never denied receiving the money from China, and they have never denied the favors that Clinton did on China's behalf. They only deny that there is a connection between the two. There was, they say, no quid pro quo. In one universe the money is given and received, and in a completely separate but parallel universe the technology is transferred. But since the two universes are parallel, there is and can never be any provable connection between the two.
But of course, while they can not be faulted for saying it, we are not required to believe it. Which brings us back to the question of why, having Clinton dead-to-rights on both bribery and treason they would stoop to a Clinton-sponsored, Reno ordered, $50 million dollar investigation into his recreational pursuits while allowing them to bottle up the non-investigation of Chinese espionage inside the Justice Department. Where, despite the change of administrations, it remains hermetically bottled even today.
And the answer is that China does not only invest in Democrats. Starr was a good soldier, and obeyed unto destruction. Senior Republicans were spared an unwelcome intrusion into their private financial affairs, and the younger ones were left bewildered by the betrayal of their elders. Clinton's felonies remain protected by the misdemeanors of his enemies; you can't bring him down unless you are willing to bring down your own with him.
What is the author talking about? Why, nobody I know is more loyal to Communist China than Bill and Hillary Clinton. Lack of patriotism my foot.
Mr. Zhang once again tells it like it is.
The Democrats are no longer a party that could hold within its ranks Americans of such integrity as Scoop Jackson. Anyone worth their patriotic salt has long since abandoned the "win at ANY price" party.
I only hope to hear its death-knell in my lifetime.
Thanking the Lord for His intervention in the decision of the SCOTUS in 2000, and the Florida patriots who stormed the doors during the ballot stealing and prevented the further destruction of this country by the Democratic Party, led by Al "Buddhist Temple" Gore.
No offense to honest Buddhists intended.
Whoops ! That should be Peter Zhang !
It will be interesting how history paints Clinton. Hopefull the revisionists will stay away and let the reality of a disgraced administration come forth.
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