Chinese Spying and the White House

Brookes News (Australia) ^ | June 14, 2003 | Peter Zhang

[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.

[PhiKapMom]

Thanks for posting this -- let's keep making sure that the Clinton "treason" stays front and center! We cannot let let Hillary ever come near the White House or any other Clinton again!

[Reactionary]

Clinton is a traitor. We all know what went down; we all know that he sold the Chinese our nuclear arsenal for compaign cash.

And the Republicans? They sat on their asses and did nothing.

[DPB101]

Peter Zhang is back! Great writer. What happened to the New Australian?

[ladyinred]

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.

So true, and it must be told over and over again. Thank goodness there are a few good books out there with this kind of information. If only we could get the American people to read! The mainstream media sure as heck isn't going to tell them!

[ladyinred]

And the Republicans? They sat on their asses and did nothing.

That isn't entirely the case. There were many who were trying to tell this to the American people! They were shouted down by liberals, or ignored by the media. The evidence of this was also in the Starr report, only it was all about sex doncha know. Let's not forget that some who try to get the truth out are destroyed or called tin foil hatters too!

[MEG33]

I've put Brooks News on my favorites list.Good article.

[Enemy Of The State]

Ping~

[Lando Lincoln]

Thought I'd ping another Peter Zhang column. He nails it, doesn't he?

[Reactionary]

I suppose what you're saying makes some sense - and I can't assign too much blame because Reno refused to investigate the matter and wouldn't comment on it. Still, the issue was nothing other than treason. What Clinton did to this country simply *has* to be investigated, and I find it absolutely disgusting that Bush, at the beginning of his tenure, merely wanted to "move on."

We know what happened here. The Clintons sold our nuclear arsenal for campaign cash. In political terms, it doesn't get any worse than that.

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By Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough
THE WASHINGTON TIMES



China's missile tests
China's military is preparing to conduct a flight test of the new DF-31 mobile missile, according to U.S. officials. The test is one of three missile shots expected to take place in the next several weeks.
In addition to the DF-31 test, China's military also will flight-test a medium-range DF-21 missile and a submarine-launched JL-2.
All three missiles are part of China's strategic military buildup.
A U.S. official confirmed the missile tests after a Russian press report last week said Beijing's Defense Ministry had notified Moscow of the three upcoming tests.
The tests are expected to take place from the Wuzhai missile test center north of Beijing, and the missiles' dummy warheads will be targeted at an impact range in the remote Lop Nur test range in northwestern China.

GCHQ not NSA
British government electronic eavesdroppers are taking credit for intercepting two key al Qaeda telephone conversations on the eve of the September 11 attacks.
A new book by London Daily Telegraph reporter Michael Smith, "The Spying Game," states that Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the counterpart to the U.S. National Security Agency, captured the phone calls warning: "The match begins tomorrow," and "Tomorrow is zero [hour]."
The calls were listed in the U.S. and British watch list of al Qaeda telephone numbers and e-mail addresses that were being monitored. The calls were not translated from Arabic for two days after being intercepted, Mr. Smith stated. A British government intelligence probe into the intercepts concluded there was no forewarning of the September 11 attacks.
Mr. Smith said 30 percent to 40 percent of GCHQ's electronic spying was focused on al Qaeda after September 11, and he noted that the agency played a supporting role for military operations in Afghanistan and recently in Iraq.
The NSA director, Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden, told Congress last year that NSA "did obtain" two pieces of information suggesting that people with terrorist connections believed "something significant" would take place September 11, 2001.
He stated that the information did not "specifically indicate an attack would take place on that day, and it didn't contain any details on the time, place, or nature of what might happen."
The information was not reported until Sept. 12 "because of the nature of the processes" for disseminating intelligence, he said.

Roche nomination
President Bush has approved the nomination of Air Force Secretary James G. Roche to be the next Army secretary, defense insiders tell us. The nomination paperwork is expected to go to the Senate shortly.
But congressional aides say Mr. Roche is likely to receive some rough treatment on a number of issues. They say they still expect the nomination to win Senate confirmation, but would not be surprised if one or more senators placed a "hold" on Mr. Roche to get the White House's attention.
The rub comes on three issues: Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's decision to cancel the Crusader artillery system, the Air Force Academy sex-abuse scandal and a feeling on Capitol Hill that Mr. Rumsfeld and his civilian staff mistreated the Army.
Mr. Rumsfeld fired Army Secretary Thomas White in April and was never on especially good terms with Gen. Eric Shinseki, the Army chief of staff who retired earlier this month after a four-year term.

SEAL sub
Supporters of a new submarine for Navy SEALs are pointing at recent test successes as a reason Congress should fund a second Northrop Grumman-produced boat.
A team of Navy testers oversaw a sea trial of the first and only Advanced SEAL Delivery System (ASDS) last month. It executed two ship-to-shore missions off the attack submarine USS Charlotte.
The minisub returned to the Charlotte, recharged its battery and then conducted a second underwater operation, as required. The ASDS carried out the missions with a new, redesigned propeller that resulted in a quieter vessel — a key Navy requirement. A previous test in February 2002 identified the old propeller as the main source of excessive noise that can lead to sonar detection by enemy forces.
Defense sources say the test has convinced Naval Sea Systems Command it can start construction of a second boat.
The changing ASDS design prompted, in part, a negative report from the General Accounting Office, Congress' investigative arm.
Some in Congress want the Navy to build a second boat, a move that may delay production.
The House approved $23.6 million in advanced procurement money for the second boat, but the Senate deleted those funds, shifting the battle to a House-Senate conference.
"Because of the long lead time required [18 months] to build the ASDS hull and composite nose and tail assemblies, eliminating the advanced procurement funding will delay the construction of ASDS No. 2 by one year," the Pentagon said in a message to Congress.
The sub requires a crew of two and can hold eight SEALS. A Navy policy statement says the ASDS "was designed to reduce the risk to Navy Special Operations forces [during] the transit from a submarine to shore. ASDS permits long-range special forces operations. It also enhances the effectiveness of the insertion teams by delivering them to their destination rested and better equipped as well as the means of conducting shore surveillance prior to landing."

Reagan's wings
At 5 p.m. today, flatbed trucks will begin moving huge sections of a Boeing 707 from the old Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino, Calif., to Simi Valley and the Reagan Library.
The 100-mile, police-escorted convoy is part of an operation by Boeing and the library to put the 707 on permanent public display by late 2004. This 707 flew for 28 years in presidential service, including as Air Force One, and was used the most by President Ronald Reagan.
It took him to Berlin in 1987, when he issued this challenge at the Brandenburg Gate, "Mister Gorbachev, tear down this wall." It was also this 707 that he and wife Nancy boarded and flew home to California after his two-term presidency.
Boeing is the largest employer in California, where Mr. Reagan worked as an actor, union leader, corporate figure and governor.
Rudy deLeon, a former deputy defense secretary who directs Boeing's Washington office, said the company's role is twofold. It dismantled the plane in San Bernardino and will put it back together once a host pavilion is finished at the library.
"What's very important is the public will be able to go on board the aircraft," Mr. deLeon said. "I think we all know Air Force One, the trip to the summit in Switzerland or previous trips — President Nixon to China. The plane is very much part of our history."
Mr. deLeon said Boeing relied on volunteers, retired company employees and paid workers to complete the dismantlement.
The 707, tail No. 27,000, replaced President John F. Kennedy's plane.

Ambush probe
The Army has completed a commander's inquiry into the March 23 ambush of the 507th Maintenance Company that resulted in the deaths of 11 soldiers and the capture of Pfc. Jessica Lynch.
The inquiry, officially called regulation number 15-6, is designed to tell commanders what went wrong in major incidents such as the 507th ambush. The inquiring officer may also recommend personnel for disciplinary action.
But a Pentagon official said the inquiry does not recommend any punishment and found that every 507th soldier acted properly, and in some cases heroically.
Pfc. Lynch is hospitalized, recovering from several fractures suffered when her vehicle crashed during the chaos of avoiding Iraqi firing from all sides in the town of Nasiriyah.
The Army plans to release the inquiry's executive summary, perhaps before month's end.

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Bush Administration allowed Russian businessman to buy U.S. mine
It would be quite natural if the American business community and the authorities took every effort to prevent the deal. However, the US Federal Trade Commission allowed Russia's Norilsk Nickel buy Stillwater Mining, the only American producer of palladium and platinumRussian Oligarch Bought American Monopolist
06/19/2003 21:15
Will Russian top-managers run Stillwater Mining?
When this deal was announced last year, the possibility of Russian top-managers being at head of the American company seemed to be fantastic. Over the years of reforms people in Russia have got used to the fact that American companies often buy Russian enterprises. It is for the first time that a Russian company buys an American monopolist. It was not globalist Mikhail Khodorkovsky or Boris Berezovsky, a politician living in an exile in London, who bought the American monopolist, Stillwater Mining. Vladimir Potanin, the most non-scandalous Russian oligarch struck the deal.

It would be quite natural if the American business community and the authorities took every effort to prevent the deal. However, the US Federal Trade Commission allowed Russia's Norilsk Nickel buy Stillwater Mining, the only American producer of palladium and platinum. As is known, the deal had been previously approved by shareholders of the American company. Thus, all necessary requirements were observed to register the deal, the first purchase of this kind in the modern Russian-American business relations.

Stillwater Mining shareholders approved of the deal with the Russian enterprise Norilsk Nickel at an extraordinary meeting on Monday. According to the deal, the Russian company purchases 51% of the American only producer of palladium and platinum. The management of the American company informs, 82.9% of the shareholders participating in the meeting voted for the deal. Stillwater Mining Chief Executive Frank McAllister said at the meeting that after approval of the Federal Trade Commission there were no obstacles for striking the deal and it would be completed until the end of the month.

Norilsk Nickel agreed to pay $100 million and 877 ounces of palladium for 51% of Stillwater Mining shares. So, local stockbrokers say the sum total of the bargain will make up about $260 million. According to a scheme suggested in the framework of the deal, Stillwater Mining is to issue 45.5 million of new shares to hand them over to Norilsk Nickel.
Officials in Norilsk Nickel admit that the bargain is extremely profitable for the Russian company. In fact, Norilsk Nickel is experiencing no problems with palladium at all. What is more, Stillwater Mining has concluded futures contracts for palladium supplies to American companies (the supplies will be done at a fixed price) within several next years. These contracts are also very convenient for the new Russian owners as they will help the Russian company to sell its own palladium stocks. It is supposed that this very fact allowed making part of payment for Stillwater Mining shares in palladium.

As for Americans, they also hope to derive considerable profits from the deal. The deal with Norilsk Nickel will help the US company settle part of the corporate debts and acquire extra finance for further development of the business.

It is quite natural that new owners would like to introduce new rules at the US enterprise. Vladimir Potanin, the head of the Interros holding (the holding is the owner of Norilsk Nickel) visited the USA and told journalists that the Russian side suggested bringing of five members to the Stillwater Mining Board of Directors. No comments on the problem have been yet obtained from the American side. However, as far as Americans have consented to selling of Stillwater Mining shares to the Russian company, it won't be a problem at all to let Russian top-managers run the company.

The history and traditions of American corporate culture are older and stronger than the Russian ones. But Russians are known for their quickness in grasping important knowledge. What is more, against the background of the recent corporate scandals in the USA, Americans shouldn't wave aside fresh blood and other business views.

On June 17, the Central Bank of Russia allowed Norilsk Nickel to withdraw its capital abroad to buy 51% of Stillwater Mining Company shares. This fact allows treating the deal as concluded. Deputy Director General of Norilsk Nickel Dmitry Razumov says that a license has been issued for Britain's Norimet Ltd., a 100% branch establishment of Norilsk Nickel. It will be this company that is to pay for Stillwater Mining shares. According to Dmitry Razumov, as soon as the deal is concluded, the independent candidates suggested by Norilsk Nickel will automatically become members of the Stillwater board of directors.

Recently, outstanding Russian economists and politicians commented upon the purchase of Norilsk Nickel.

Leonid Roketsky, Federation Council member

The deal is a sure recognition of the strength of Russian business and high business reputation of Russian companies. Russia President Vladimir Putin said in his State of the Nation address that Russian business should enter the international market. This will certainly improve the economic cooperation between the USA and Russia; it will also help the Russian business community to integrate into the world economy.

Alexander Livshits, Russia's Ex-Minister of Finance

The purchase of Stillwater Mining shares will allow Norilsk Nickel to strengthen its positions on the market, although they are already rather stable now.

Yaroslav Shvyryayev, Duma deputy

This is the first precedent of such a large scale: Russia purchased shares of a super monopolist in palladium production situated in the USA. Norilsk Nickel is a company registered in Russia, which means that the company transfers taxes to the budget. The purchase is a correct doing from both, psychological and political points of view. It is very advantageous to run this market. Bargains of this kind were struck already in the Soviet era; they were concluded according to a closed scheme through the third countries. This time the bargain is legal.

Sergey Shtorgin, Deputy Chairman of Duma's budgetary and revenue committee

Russian enterprises have spare funds that help expand the business at home as well as abroad. This proves that Russian economy is developing. The deal concluded by Norilsk Nickel means that the Russian company got spare funds and invested it in purchase of a foreign company. Now it turns out that not only foreign companies can purchase Russian enterprises, but Russian companies also can buy foreign business.

Dmitry Chirkin

Read the original in Russian: http://economics.pravda.ru/economics/2003/7/21/64/11372_STILLWATER.html (Translated by: Maria Gousseva)

[liberalnot]

yes.

what i don't understand is why little of this stuff makes to the average american.

just what was in those secret documents that the pubs invited the dems to look at and they ignored during the impeachment?

[Libloather]

...Chinese spying and former President Clinton's intelligence scandal.

Do the Libdem/Chicoms have the nads to back their favorite son, *Bubba?

[ALOHA RONNIE]

NEVER FORGET


...WHY don't we all just check out all things ..CHINAGATE's U.S. LONG BEACH NAVY BASE Case..?



Signed:..ALOHA RONNIE Guyer / Vet-Battle to Save our U.S. LONG BEACH NAVY BASE from being turned over to the Communist Chinese ...by HILLARY RODHAM & BILL CLINTON for China Army Money-1997-99.

...We Citizen Activists stopped them in Congress ...only to have Friend of HILLARY Long Beach Mayor BEVERLY O'NEILL vow to flatten our Navy Base anyway without her even having a Port of Long Beach Steamship Company Tenant for it.

...The Communist Chinese COSCO Steamship Lines wanted in there by 1998. They NEVER got in.

...South Korea's HAIIJIN Steamship Company moved onto a now FLATTENED U.S. LONG BEACH NAVY BASE in the Summer of 2002.


Poor Taiwan.


NEVER FORGET

[maui_hawaii]

And woe betide any CIA official who would have challenged this conclusion.

BUMP

[Cicero]

There was a whole other side to clinton's betray of the United States to China, namely the Loral missile scandal. Bernie Schwartz of Loral gave the Chinese the key information they needed to perfect their MIRVed ICMBs. Most of the details are well known. When the DNC returned more than $500,000 dollars to the Chinese, Bernie Schwartz made it good by giving a donation equal to the amount returned to the DNC--in addition to a number of other princely gifts. Hughes and Boeing were involved as well, but the nub of it was clinton/DNC/Loral.

[Victoria Delsoul]

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.

Good point.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

What happened to the New Australian?

I think they just 'rebranded' themselves as Brookes News.

[meema]

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