heres brush up on chinagate for those that have hard time understanding-----
The Idiot's Guide to Chinagate
http://www.richardpoe.com/column.cgi?story=125
This scandel is by far the worse of all IMO
Unforunately many of the the players are no longer with us--or have pleaded the 5th over 2000 times or left the country
In a nutshell its about bribes and payoffs from chinese and the payback was
With Bill Clinton elected president and John Huang placed with a top secret clearance (without examination) in the Commerce Department, the Chinese got what they wanted: unlimited access to the military, civilian and dual-use technology that had been denied them during Republican administrations:
(*) F-16 fighter jets
(*) Cray supercomputers for weapons development
(*) Machine tools for cruise missile construction
(*) Global Positioning System technology for missile guidance
(*) Satellites and satellite technology
(*) The entire U.S. Patent database.
(*) Nuclear Power plants
John Huang used his top secret clearance to gain access to classified U.S. military and industrial secrets on encryption technology and its relationship to intelligence gathering and software marketing across the world. He then took the documents across the street, to an office run by Riady partner Stephens' of Little Rock, where he dropped the documents so they could be collected by Chinese intelligence.
And when Chinese military and intelligence wanted a foothold in America, President Clinton personally met twice with Long Beach officials to push through a deal to lease the former naval base to the Chinese COSCO front company on extremely favorable terms despite vocal national security concerns.
a little on John Huang---
" Huang cited his Fifth Amendment rights over 2,000 times before pleading guilty to minor campaign violations. Huang took the Fifth Amendment more than 2,000 times when asked if he was an agent of the Chinese military.
Despite 37 classified briefings by the CIA, which later noted in congressional testimony that some of the material given to Huang could endanger the lives of field agents, the Reno-led Department of Justice and the Freeh-led FBI refused to investigate the Chinagate figure's possible espionage activities.
For example, files found in the offices of John Huang detail exports of Patriot missiles to South Korea, Apache attack helicopters to Holland, 155 mm artillery to Kuwait and F-16 fighter jet sales to the UAE. Huang, however, was not a member of the Commerce Department's Bureau for Export Administration, the predecessor of today's Commerce Department Bureau for Industry and Security.
How Huang obtained these documents and why he was involved in arms sales remains unanswered, but it is clear that U.S. defense contractors sought Commerce Department help with foreign sales prior to any approval by the Defense Department or State Department."
I've read mega on Chinagate and while most readings are conservative oriented I have to think it it biased and it could not all be true or Clinton would be in jail--but then again I have to consider the Marc Rich scandal which is obvious and nothing was done there either.
Some very interesting players in Chinagate--Foster-Brown-- Hubell---it is quite an interesting read.
