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Spy Case May Offer Clues How Chinese Missile Ended Up in Hezbollah's Arsenal by Ed TimperlakePosted Jul 26, 2006In February 1999, Dr. Ronald N. Montaperto was identified by PBS’ News Hour during a segment on “human rights in China� as “a senior fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at National Defense University.� He was also said to be “advising the Pentagon on Chinese military issues.� At the same time he was preening for PBS, however, he was an espionage agent for the People’s Republic of China. A joint Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) and FBI investigation nailed Montaperto’s...

Wrong, read "The Pentagon's New Map" by Thomas Barnett, a former Professor and senior military analyst at the U.S. Naval War College, and a top adviosr to SecDef Donald Rumsfeld. (the following are excerpts from the book that will explain why China's navy will never be a serious threat to the U.S.): "What the Navy was coming to grips with in 1992, as the Soviet Navy continued its decade-long collapse, was an unprecedented moment in world history: America possessed the planet's only blue-water navy. By "blue-water", I mean a navy capable of projecting military power across all the world's open...

<p>Sen. John Kerry boasts how he "sounded the alarm on terrorism years before 9/ 11," referring to his 1997 book "The New War." Too bad he didn't blast it when it really counted - four months before the hijackings, when he was hand-delivered evidence of serious security breaches at Logan International Airport, with specific warnings that terrorists could exploit them.</p>

Official: Kerry failed to act on pre-9/11 tip 3rd agent to say he warned security lapses made Boston airport ripe for 'jihad' attack WASHINGTON - A third federal aviation-security agent, one still with the government, has stepped forward to say he also warned Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry about security lapses at Boston's Logan International Airport before the 9/11 hijackings there. Earlier this week, two former FAA agents said the Democratic presidential hopeful failed to take effective action after they gave him a prophetic warning that his home airport was vulnerable to multiple hijackings. Brian Sullivan, a retired special agent from...

Celebrated FBI whistle-blower Coleen Rowley knows it was the fame which accompanied her national-security complaints about bureaucratic bumbling in the run-up to Sept. 11 — not the good will of FBI management — that kept her career alive. In the now-famous memo that blistered the FBI's hidebound senior management, Rowley took note of the "culture of fear" pervading the FBI, a climate that she said caused her many sleepless nights before she decided to act. In an open letter to Congress she wrote earlier this month, Rowley admitted that prior to her own experience, "I did not fully appreciate...