WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] A vote for Bush or Gore is a vote to continue Clinton policies! A vote for Buchanan is a vote to continue America! Therefore a vote for Gore or Bush is a wasted vote for America! Don't waste your vote! Vote for Patrick Buchanan! Dear Brigade, This has to be one of Tom Flocco's best -- read and pass on to ALL who support PNTR! GO PAT GO!!!!!!!!!!!!1 Linda ------------------- Date sent: Fri, 19 May 2000 18:49:11 -0400 From: Calabrese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SEND THIS OUT!! HOT STORY LINDA, AS THE GOP IS LOOKING DOWN ON ALL OF US WHO ARE AGAINST PNTR. THERE MAY BE MORE THAN ONE REASON WHY. THIS IS THE BEST COLUMN FLOCCO HAS PENNED YET!!! LOVE AND REGARDS. MARIO The strange bedfellows of China PNTR By Tom Flocco © 2000 WorldNetDaily.com An examination of Federal Election Commission, Center For Responsive Politics and Justice Department "agents of foreign principals" lobby records regarding contributions to U.S. House and Senate members reveals startling conflicts of interest concerning legislators charged with oversight of matters related to China's recent ability to gather American dual-use military research and development secrets almost at will. U.S. defense corporations McDonnell-Douglas (Boeing), Lockheed Martin, Loral Space (Lockheed) and Hughes Electronics (General Motors) are either under indictment, awaiting indictment or under current investigation by the Justice Department for illegally passing rocket and satellite technology to China But the illegalities may have little effect upon the outcome of the looming vote to extend permanent most favored status to China -- now called "normal" trade relations (PNTR). However, the congressional conflicts of interest are anything but normal. For each company also plays a significant role in the political dealings and donor machinations of representatives who must now return favors connected to the PNTR vote -- legislators who are also charged with investigating espionage and campaign finance scandals related to China. For example, Senator Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., chairman of the Senate Government Affairs Committee charged with investigating the illegal Chinese political campaign contributions, was criticized by some for his soft probe while shutting down his hearings in late October 1997.With eight-plus weeks to go before the Senate-imposed deadline at the end of December, Thompson promised in a press conference to reopen the hearings if more information surfaced in 1998. And thus Thompson refused to force key witnesses to testify and continuously plead the Fifth Amendment to build a likely prosecutorial scenario. The suspension of Thompson's failed campaign finance hearings occurred at a time when a variety of revelations were building momentum that would result in the impeachment of President Clinton. But curiously, on Oct. 30, 1998, at the apex of the House impeachment proceedings -- just five weeks before the actual vote and 10 weeks before the Senate removal vote -- Gannett wire service noted that the Tennessee senator's son, Fred D. "Tony" Thompson, Jr., was hired as a congressional lobbyist for Lockheed Martin. Other Lockheed lobbyists were making six- figure salaries at the time. This writer's recent phone call to the Senate office regarding lobbyist registrations confirmed the Gannett report and the current Lockheed employment of the younger Thompson. But strangely, Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore's former key staff member and Clinton- Gore DNC fund-raiser, Peter Knight, is also listed with Sen. Thompson's son as a current Lockheed lobbyist. And federal election documents list Lockheed as the Tennessee Senator's top contributor with $27,000 in 1996 and $16,000 in 1998 -- both substantial sums for an individual company in an election cycle. More interestingly, Clinton-connected political appointments began falling into the laps of family members of key Republican legislators. Added to the Thompson revelation, former Philadelphia prosecutor and Republican Senate Judiciary Committee member Arlen Specter let his wife Joan accept a six-figure appointment directly from President Clinton just six months before the impeachment vote. Mrs. Specter would conveniently be serving with Democratic National Committee Chairman Steven Grossman's wife on the National Endowment for the Arts Board. Then influential House Republican anti-impeachment leader, Rep. Chris Shays, was able to avoid public notice when his wife Betsy quietly accepted a six-figure appointment as Director of Ameri-Corps from close Clinton confidant and early damage-control aide Mark Gearan, now director of the Peace Corps. The job came through on Oct. 8, 1998 -- just eight weeks before the actual House impeachment vote. And these are the appointments that are known. Looking out for China's military interests Compounding Lockheed's entangled national security problems, the company is also under contract to manage the Oak Ridge National Energy Labs in Tennessee, a subject that House Chinese espionage investigation committee chairman Christopher Cox, R-Calif., and ranking minority member Norman Dicks, D-Wash., declined to comment upon during a C-SPAN-televised Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. The two legislators had been asked by Sen. Specter about security problems similar to those at New Mexico's Los Alamos Labs. Specter never pressed the issue; but the Gannett wire added that Tony Thompson's main area of congressional lobby responsibility is related to the Oak Ridge National Energy Labs. On April 19, just five weeks ago, the State Department announced that it would accuse Lockheed Martin of 30 separate export violations for transferring satellite technology to China. And, smothered by Elian Gonzalez-dominated national news coverage, the Washington Post reported that Lockheed violated the Arms Export (Control) Act -- a separate law governing the State Department licensing of military exports. State Department officials did not report whether Lockheed had also transferred any Oak Ridge Labs-related technology to China. However, former Reagan defense official Larry M. Wortzel asserted that China improved its ballistic missile technology through dealings with Lockheed and two other heavy political contributors, Hughes Electronics Corporation and Loral Space and Communications. The Cox committee had already asserted that Lockheed scientists discussed technology issues with Chinese scientists without defense department monitors present. And although Loral and Hughes have not yet been formally charged, they are still under investigation for allegedly sharing a scientific evaluation report of a Chinese-made satellite motor with Hong Kong-based client, Asia Satellite Telecommunications, without informing the Department of Defense. The Post added that the military information Loral and Hughes transferred to China was so sensitive that 45 of the report's 50 pages were blacked out and thus shielded from public scrutiny. Lockheed's military technology ties to China became even more visible when Loral president and heavy Clinton-Gore donor Bernard Schwartz became vice president of Lockheed after it bought out most of Loral in early 1996. Seven months ago, on Oct. 19, 1999, a federal grand jury issued a 16- count indictment accusing another pro-China-trade defense corporation, McDonnell-Douglas, along with a Chinese-run company, of conspiring to violate U.S. export laws in the sale of aerospace equipment that wound up at a Chinese military plant. In 1994, McDonnell sold the China National Aero-Technology Import and Export Corporation (CATIC) 13 pieces of sophisticated machining equipment used to build aircraft parts (read Silkworm missiles!). CATIC is a Chinese-run defense firm that is the Chinese military's main purchasing arm. (Washington Post, 10/20/99) The indictment alleged that CATIC intended to "divert the equipment to the military plant and that McDonnell-Douglas acted with 'willful blindness' in arranging the sale." The indictment also involved a history of false statements and omissions on the part of McDonnell. And if convicted of the charges, the corporation could be fined millions of dollars and the individuals involved could face up to 5 years in prison. Secure national security? According to FEC and Center For Responsive Politics records, Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., chairman of the highly sensitive House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Research and Development also serves as an example regarding how soft investigations and mild rebukes could seem suspect when legislators charged with protecting national security have conflicts of interest. Weldon accepted $170,000 in campaign contributions during the same time period of the Clinton administration from the same corporations now either under federal indictment or investigation for shipping military secrets to China. Contributions included many subsidiary companies doing subcontract work for the companies in question. Moreover, as a member of the House Select Committee investigating Chinese espionage chaired by Congressman Cox, Weldon received political contributions from corporations who were represented by FARA-registered U.S. foreign lobbyists, Cassidy Associates -- a firm who employed as vice president, a China-tied Lippo Group operative-consultant named Maeley Tom. Five Cassidy lobby representatives periodically contributed small personal checks totaling $5,750 to Curt Weldon during the Clinton administration in addition to the money he received from the Cassidy-represented corporations either indicted or under investigation. It was Maeley Tom who had recommended Clinton-Gore fund-raiser and Lippo Group employee John Huang for a Commerce Department position: "John Huang is the political power that advises the Riady family (Lippo Group) on issues and where to make contributions," and that he was the Riady family's "top priority for placement because he is like one of their own." (Majority Staff Hearing Summary, Senate Government Affairs Committee, AM Session, Aug. 6, 1997, Federal Document Clearing House.) In June 1997, House Rules Chairman Gerald Solomon had asserted publicly what committee staffs were saying privately -- that intelligence intercepts of John Huang's phone calls while at the Commerce Department revealed that he had "committed economic espionage and breached our national security." (The New Republic, 9/22/97) Huang pled the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination over 1,000 times in his depositions regarding Chinese espionage and illegal political contributions before General Counsel Larry Klayman of the public interest law firm, Judicial Watch. He received a security clearance waiver six months before joining Commerce; and he also received 37 U.S. intelligence briefings concerning China even though his superior, Jeffrey Garten, testified that Huang was totally unqualified and directed that he have no substantive responsibilities at Commerce. The Cox Committee reported that during his 18 months at the Commerce Department, Huang made dozens of visits to the White House and multiple visits and telephone calls to the Chinese Embassy, met privately with Vice President Al Gore, asked questions about 500 raw intelligence national security documents he was shown, called the Lippo Bank 232 times, called New York Senate candidate Hillary Clinton's Arkansas Rose Law Firm former managing partner and Lippo Group venture partner Joseph Giroir 72 times while faxing Lippo Headquarters in Indonesia 29 times. John Huang also contacted Maeley Tom on 61 separate occasions. But Cox and Weldon press conferences never mentioned that Ms. Tom met with President Clinton at a White House coffee fund-raiser on July 18, 1996, attended by aerospace machinists, union political director Linda G. Lanham and attorney Ira Robinson of Albuquerque, N.M. (The Los Alamos Labs are 25 miles from Albuquerque.) Cassidy also sent Maeley Tom to Indonesia with Ron Brown on a trade mission, accompanied by White House "bag man" Charlie Trie and DNC donors Pauline Kanchanalak and Nora Lum -- all three of whom have been investigated. Trie and Lum were convicted regarding illegal foreign contributions. Ms. Tom was also on the Senate deposition list, but for some reason, Sen. Thompson decided not to call her to testify. More curiously, however, Cox press conferences never mentioned Ms. Tom's dual roles as Lippo employee and vice-president of Washington- based Cassidy Associates -- the largest congressional lobby firm in the United States and one of the top political cash cows. Center For Responsive Politics documents reveal Cassidy's income as $18 million in 1997 and $20 million in 1998. The firm's substantial total of $416,700 in legislative contributions to key Republican and Democratic congressmen occurred during the important 1995-96 election cycle from which many of the national security allegations sprang. However, no congressional committee has yet questioned the source of Cassidy's money, given the various Chinese campaign finance scandals, Beijing espionage, congressional links and the suspect handling of national security at the State Department building, witnessed recently via televised hearings on C-SPAN. Cassidy, as Justice Department-registered "agents of foreign principals," represents three military technology corporations extremely interested in "permanent normal trade relations" with China. The lobby firm has donated princely sums to influence congressmen like Rep. Weldon, regarding defense contracts and military exports as they relate to China policy. Those sums are: Lockheed Martin and Loral subsidiary United Space Alliance -- $460,000 in 1998, McDonnell-Douglas parent company Boeing -- $340,000 in 1997 and $400,000 in 1998, and Lockheed Defense Systems (combat vehicles) and Armament Systems (gun systems) parent company General Dynamics -- $600,000 in 1997 and $440,000 in 1998. And Weldon contributors such as Hughes (under current investigation), Raytheon, TRW, Madison Research, Texas Instruments, Teledyne, Northrop-Grumman and Rockwell all have ongoing co-mingled defense and missile projects that require them to work together on a contractor/subcontractor basis to develop their highly sophisticated military projects. Free traders or free 'traitors'? Some might question whether there is anyone left to depose legislators under oath who would never subpoena themselves to offer explanations for their conflicts of interest. For there has been a mysterious failure to paint what many thought was an obvious picture of powerful individuals and families connected to governments who conveniently helped place agents in key U.S. governmental positions. Then these agents observed and shaped American China policy while underhandedly gathering intelligence and influencing American elections with illegal contributions. Chicago Sun-Times/CNN political analyst Robert Novak reported on Aug. 2, 1999, that the Reno Justice Department may be blackmailing some Republicans by holding the threat of indictment and/or further investigation of campaign contributions over their heads. But while every import from China is made under conditions not subject to American law, China accounts for 56 percent (500 every day of the year) of the world's yearly female suicides -- likely due to its forced abortions and sterilizations, Congress is attempting to offer PNTR to China when their workers don't pay a penny into our Social Security and Medicare programs or into U.S. school districts, streets, highways and defense. (Middle American News, May 2000) American companies that build factories in China to make goods to send here are evading U.S. laws and taxes. Moreover, with the help of a compliantly docile American citizenry, Congress is planning to give China the equivalent of billions in foreign aid at taxpayer expense while our ballooning China trade deficit accounts for losses in production, income, wealth, jobs, higher living standards, savings, capital formation, and tax revenue. The public is likely too busy working to pay taxes to question the reasons why so many U.S. legislators intend to vote for PNTR, notwithstanding China's stunning list of horrific activities: pointing missiles at the U.S., retransferring our military technology to rogue- nation enemies, pirating and counterfeiting our copyrights and industrial research, torturing political dissidents and harvesting organs from unwilling Chinese citizens for profit -- the list goes on while congressmen trip over each other extolling the virtues of Chinese "engagement." Conservative political commentator M. Stanton Evans sometimes referred to the Democrats as the evil party and the Republicans as the stupid party. In light of the numerous congressional conflicts of interest, perhaps both parties are more shrewd than stupid or evil. ------------------- Tom Flocco is a freelance writer who lives in Pennsylvania. 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