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National Daily Republican News Archive

Sunday, May 17, 1998
Christopher warned Clinton

significant military and intelligence loss to US

By Richard Horowitz, Daily Republican Staff Writer

WASHINGTON DESK - If president Clinton approved the launching of American-made satellites aboard Chinese rockets against the advice of top White House advisors and contrary to a Pentagon report that the transfer was violative of U.S national security, he must have had a powerful motivation for doing so and he must have been ready to face the consequences of his actions.

Some critical facts have come to light in the past few days making it clear that the president's actions were reckless and may have jeopardized the military defense of this nation.

In a follow-up to Friday's New York Times story, Times' writers Jeff Gerth and David Sanger reveal additional information pinpointing Warren Christopher, Clinton's secretary of state, admonishing Clinton for planning to hand over to the Communist Chinese, American missile guidance programming source codes embedded in commercial U.S. satellites that were part of a deal Ron Brown had worked up with Communist China. Christopher, is said to have told Clinton, the Brown deal could jeopardize "...significant military and intelligence interests..." of the United States missile guidance system.

Gerth's latest information bonanza paints president Bill Clinton into a corner with information obtained from 'reliable' inside sources. The source depicts Clinton as so eager to place the missile guidance source codes technology in Communist Chinese hands that he suddenly reorganized the U.S. government chain of command and responsibility so as to remove the jurisdiction over that technology from Warren Christopher at the State Department, by reassigning that authority to Ron Brown at Commerce.

Then, with Ron Brown having control of U.S. missile technology, Clinton signed several waivers allowing U.S. satellite launches in China. That action took place on the very same day that Wang Jun, the man who was often referred to during the campaign finance investigations as a "Chinese arms dealer," arrived in Washington to meet with Brown at the Commerce Department. It was no surprise to the White House that during the evening, Wang attended a White House Coffee hosted by Clinton and the first lady.

It is ironic that, given the level of knowledge that Clinton had concerning the interest of the Communist Chinese in obtaining U.S. missile targeting programming source codes, and the opposition of high level advisors, that he would have ignored prevailing opinion and approved the export to China of that technology by one of the companies under investigation by a Federal grand jury.

At issue in the grand jury was whether two American companies illegally gave "China space expertise that significantly advanced Beijing's ballistic missile program." Christopher was over-ruled and the State Department backed-down.

And, before the grand jury could take action on facts they had, the criminal inquiry 'short-circuited' when president Clinton quietly issued a back-dated Executive Order approving the export to China of the missile source code technology by LORAL SPACE AND COMMUNICATIONS the company being investigated. LORAL's chairman and CEO is Bernard Schwartz, the largest personal contributor to the 1992-1996 Clinton-Gore Campaign Committee.

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As the Chinese test proved, such targets could be hit with medium-range missiles tipped with crude kill devices. GPS satellites are far higher, orbiting at about 12,600 miles. Many communications sats are in the 22,000-mile range. Destroying them requires a much more powerful and sophisticated long-range ballistic missile -- yet it can be done.
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My opinion is that there will never be a military confrontation with China.

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Originally posted by Ed594:
RE: http://www.military.com/forums/0,15240,145944,00.html

Well, First we basically sell of give away all the science involved, all the technology, and now suddenly we are suprised??

Exactly what else is there to say here?

We have sold almost everything of any industrial or commerical value to China, eliminated our tariffs which were the only real protection our workers or industries had against slave labor, and now were surprised when our economy is failing, we have unsafe products and food in our stores and food chain, and were suppost to be "surprised" or "shocked" by such events as this?

Suddenly, they demonstrate "their" military accomplishments, and now were "concerned"?

Look around and think a bit. China as good as OWNS our country right now.

And your taking all this political nonsense, these freak shows we call "major" parties so seriously once again? They have no solutions they ARE the problem!

Forgotten all the warnings you all had from Pat Buchanan
and Ross Perot? Still can't hear that giant sucking sound???

You know, we are getting what we have so very richly EARNED right now.

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Originally posted by bighorsepunisher:
All good points.
But some are arguable.

We have enough tracking to know what's going on with those little bastards all of the time.

You didn't see the homocidists fly into bejing now did ya?

Why? Because they don't support the west.

Had they, they'd all be speaking Chinese right now.

The Chinese are buying up everything the russians dumped.

They are also paying big money to get this off of the ground.

I have news for ya.

All I say is try it...

Hope they have their 500 Sunblocker ready...

We'd nuke em so fast their heads would spin.

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Originally posted by melmarr:
China has proven to be a villain for hundreds of years yet we still kiss their asses and buy their crap.
FREE AMERICA FROM CHINESE TYRANNY, BUY AMERICAN MADE PRODUCTS !!!!!!!!

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Originally posted by Migbuster:
Time for our space defence folks get their head out of the sand and produce some type of defence capablity either with in a satalite or from the ground, mobile launchers if needed. or aircraft launch killer missiles.

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Originally posted by AFRet91:
Reminds me of a famous quote "well, well Ollie,[GW] thats another fine mess you got us into"

:"The United States "basically said it has the right to restrict the use of space to only its allies," Clark says. Adds Jeffrey G. Lewis, an arms control expert at the New America Foundation: "Much of the world was appalled at the tone of the policy. One British newspaper columnist basically said it made space the 51st state:"
This is NO small deal.
Essentially the whole world had agreed that no one would do 'dumbass' stuff in space, ie, make declarative statements of "ownership" or start blowing up others satellites.

Since we have become dependent on satellites for just about everything we do in this modern era, we will be blind, deaf and out of communication capabilities except for local microwave and HF/UHF/SHF point to point. No more global comms. Land warrior systems will be down. UAV's will only have local line of sight control. GPS out of service and sat missle guidance for smart bombs will be OOS. Inertial navs will be useable. Essentially we will be restricted to WW2 tech to fight the 'next' war.

Since our good buddy friend China sells us junk and gives our enemies modern missle tech and other hi tech weapons, with the money we send them to outsource our entire material existance.

Our leaders, in their greed, selfishness and eagerness to control the world with the new world order without considering the consequences, has gotten us into deep poop.With our permission of course, lots of profits to be made, by them. The rest of us get to eat cake.

Never thought I'd live to see the day that my govt would turn on me [us] in the name of profiteering for a few big companies. Worse yet, is that our govt would take away the freedoms that we have all fought and died for our entire existance. We are now the world bully and some even go so far as to consider us as financial terrorists.

We got BIG problems ahead of us that bravado, chest thumping and hooohaaa wont solve.

Dont we have any real diplomats and politicians that believe in common sense and reestablishing some kind of decent relations with other countries. Even our allies are starting to shun us. We cant afford to lose everything good that we have done.