[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10789]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



              WILL CHINESE ESPIONAGE SCANDAL BE DISMISSED?

  (Mr. SCHAFFER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SCHAFFER. Mr. Speaker, on March 19th of this year, the President 
stated, in response to a question, ``To the best of my knowledge, no 
one has said anything to me about any espionage which occurred by the 
Chinese against the labs, during my presidency.''
  Sorry, to have to ask this, but is that true? Chinese espionage was 
discovered in 1995.
  Was the President not briefed on this in 1995?
  Did no one tell him in 1996?
  Was the President not told about this in 1997?
  During all of 1998, did no one brief the President about these 
extremely grave matters?
  Did the President not read the November 1998 report on Chinese 
espionage at the Energy Department labs?
  Did the President not see the Cox report delivered to him in January 
of this year?
  Did he forget that, in fact, he had been briefed about the most 
serious espionage case since the Rosenbergs many, many times?
  Why the denial?
  Will the other side simply dismiss this scandal too, saying, ``Hey, 
everybody lies about national security''?

                          ____________________