[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 65 (Wednesday, May 20, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H3595]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         U.S. SECURITY FOR SALE

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Gibbons). Under a previous order of the 
House, the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. McInnis) is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. McINNIS. Mr. Speaker, as we know, India is one of the largest 
democracies in the world. China is the largest communist country in the 
world. President Clinton has taken the time to condemn the largest 
democracy, one of the largest democracies in the world, India, for 
developing or testing nuclear weapons to defend themselves against the 
largest communist country in the world, China.
  While the President condemns India, what does the President do with 
China? Let me quote from a couple of articles here:
  ``Clinton made a decision to overrule his own Secretary of State and 
ease the exportation of satellite technology to China in 1996. The 
Justice Department also is investigating whether two satellite 
companies, Loral and Hughes Electronics, violated the national security 
laws in 1996 by giving satellite technology to China that could be used 
for nuclear missiles.''
  Remember, China, the largest communist country in the world. This is 
our President in his negotiations with that country.
  Both firms are big Democrat donors. Loral chief, Mr. Schwartz, was 
the Democrats' biggest single donor in 1995-96, giving more than 
$600,000.
  Let me quote from U.S. Security for Sale. That is the article. It is 
an essay by William Safire. U.S. Security for Sale. Essay. Washington:
  ``A President hungry for money to finance his reelection overruled 
the Pentagon; he sold to a Chinese military intelligence front the 
technology that defense experts argued would give Beijing the capacity 
to blind our spy satellites and launch a sneak attack. How soon we have 
forgotten Pearl Harbor.
  ``October 1996 must have been some tense months for the Democratic 
fund-raisers. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and the Los 
Angeles Times had begun to expose the Asian connection of John Huang 
and Indonesia's Riady family to the Clinton campaign.
  ``The fix was already in to sell the satellite technology to China. 
Clinton had switched the licensing over to Ron Brown's anything-goes 
Commerce Department. Johnny Chung had paid up. Commerce's Huang had 
delivered money big time (though one of his illegal foreign sources had 
already been spotted). The boss of the satellite's builder had come 
through as Clinton's largest contributor.
  ``But public outrage was absent. The FBI didn't read the papers and 
Reno Justice did not want to embarrass the President. And television 
news found no pictorial values in the Asian connection. Stealthily, the 
Clinton administration held back the implementation of the corrupt 
policy until November 5, the day the campaign ended.
  ``Now the reporting of Jeff Gerth and the Times' investigative team 
is putting the spotlight of pitiless publicity on the sellout of 
American security.
  ``We begin to see how the daughter of China's top military commander 
steered at least $300,000 through the Chung channel to the Democratic 
National Committee. (Apparently Mr. Chung skimmed off a chunk and may 
be spilling his guts lest he have to face his Beijing friends.)
  ``We begin to learn more of the February 8, 1996, visit of the arms 
dealer Wang Jun to the Commerce office of Ron Brown, and Wang's 
`coffee' meeting that day with the President, the very day that Clinton 
approved four Chinese launches, even as China was terrorizing Taiwan 
with missile tests.
  ``Clinton's explanation, which used to slyly suggest that China 
policy was not changed `solely' by contributors, has now switched to 
total ignorance; shucks, we didn't know the source of the money. But 
this President's Democratic National Committee did not know because it 
wanted not to know; procedures long in place to prevent the unlawful 
flow of foreign funds were uprooted by the money-hungry Clintonites.
  ``Today, 2 years after this sale of our security, comes the 
unforeseen chain reaction; as China strengthens its satellite missile 
technology, a new Indian Government reacts to the growing threat from 
its longtime Asian rival and joins the nuclear club. In turn, China 
feels pressed to supply its threatened ally, Pakistan, with weaponry 
Beijing promised us not to transfer. This makes Clinton the 
proliferation President.
  ``Who has helped keep this sellout of security under wraps?''
  Let me just conclude by saying this. India is one of the largest 
democracies in the world. China is the largest communist country. And I 
hope every citizen of this country takes the time to read about the 
technology that was transferred to China through this administration. 
It is a critical security issue.
  Mr. Speaker, the remainder of the article by William Safire, is as 
follows:

       ``In the Senate, John Glenn was rewarded with a space 
     flight by Clinton for derogating the leads to China of the 
     Thompson committee. Fred Thompson's warnings about China's 
     plan to penetrate this White House were then scorned by 
     Democratic partisans; his Government Operations Committee 
     should now swarm all over this.
       The House's aggressive agent of the Clinton cover-up, Henry 
     Waxman of California, is finally ``troubled'' by the prospect 
     of damning evidence he prevented the Burton committee from 
     finding. At least three Democratic partisans who foolishly 
     followed Waxman in blocking the testimony of Asian witnesses 
     may have difficulty explaining their cover-up vote to even 
     more troubled voters in their districts.
       The Gerth revelations lead to more questions: Where were 
     the chiefs of the C.I.A. and the National Security Agency, 
     their intelligence so dependent on satellites, on the 
     satellite technology sale to China?
       Is anybody at Reno Justice reexamining testimony taken by 
     independent counsel investigating corruption at Commerce 
     before Ron Brown's death? Does Brown's former lawyer claim 
     ``dead man's privilege'' on notes? Did N.S.A. tape overseas 
     calls of suspect Commerce officials? Who induced Commerce to 
     lobby Clinton for control of satellite technology?
       And the most immediate: Will homesick prosecutor Charles 
     LaBella, beholden to Janet Reno for his political appointment 
     in San Diego, dare to offend his patron by calling for 
     independent counsel?''

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