Is Hsu Just Another Chapter
IS HSU JUST ANOTHER CHAPTER IN THE CLINTON’S CHINESE CORRUPTION CAPER? CHINAGATE REVISITED
by
Ken Eliasberg
I had no desire to deal with the Clinton’s many fundraising scandals, or, for that matter, any of the numerous other scandals that marked the 8 years during which we had to endure the Clinton-Gore assault on the integrity of our government, at this early date. Rather, I wanted to wait until after the primaries when Hillary is the Democratic candidate, as I’m virtually certain that she will be, when a detailed look at the Clinton years in office would be both more appropriate and more necessary. However, the Hsu situation is a reminder of a Chinese connection of a much more serious nature—CHINAGATE. Chinagate, may (or may not) bear only a modest relation to the current situation, but it serves to remind us of the Clinton’s Chinese fundraising efforts (and you wonder why all of America’s enemies are rooting for a Hillary Clinton election victory?). That scandal was much more than just a matter of stepping over the line when it comes to raising electoral money; that scandal obliterated the lines entirely, and, in my opinion, was nothing short of treason. Why treason? Because it resulted in the sale of our missile technology secrets to China for Chinese communist money for Bill Clinton’s reelection in 1996. Before that most disgusting and despicable bit of Clinton misconduct, China’s missiles couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn; after that episode, thanks to Bill Clinton, China was now in a position to hit any city in the U.S.
with nuclear tipped missiles. Selling out his wife (if any one believes that story) was nothing compared to selling out his country. The last betrayal of this magnitude was for 30 pieces of silver; the price for Bill Clinton was a lot less—his soul. But, in his case, that would be pretty cheap, since it would seem that Bill sold that a long time ago, which begs the question—how many times can you keep selling the same bit of worthless merchandise?
Speaking of selling “the same bit of worthless merchandise,” let me address a threadbare argument that the Clintons always advance when they are caught in another scandal—“IT’S OLD NEWS!” This is an effort to embarrass you by suggesting that there is no current relevance to your complaint, and the fact that you even mention it reflects not on their character or criminality but rather on your pettiness and the insignificance of the content of your complaint. Two thoughts—the question is not whether the criticism deals with an “old” event; the question is whether the criticism is relevant, regardless of the age of the event. For example, if a man commits murder on Monday, is it old news, in terms of evaluating the man’s character, on Friday, a year from Friday, or 50 years from Friday? That is, does an indiscretion that so fundamentally bears witness to one’s character ever lose its relevance? The Clintons would have you believe that it does—they are, of course, wrong. The second is that, even if there were some validity to the Clinton’s old-news-move-on nonsense, nothing remains old very long with the Clintons because they are always updating their scandals and getting caught in the process. Thus, you don’t have to wait very long before “old” news becomes new news once again. When this happens they rely on a couple of old ploys in an effort to achieve some measure of damage control—(1) attempting to shame the critics by labeling them members of a “vast right wing conspiracy,” thus trying to shift the focus from their reprehensible behavior to the sinister motives of those mean-spirited conservatives who call attention to that behavior, and/or (2) reliance on a measure of Clinton fatigue, i.e. the country is so sick of, and accustomed to, the Clinton’s bad behavior that we don’t want to hear about it any more. In addition, they rely on an incredible amount of mendacity to paper over their indiscretions. Look for these arguments to come up almost constantly during Hillary’s 2008 campaign, when her critics seek, as they should, to remind the public of the character of the Clintons, i.e. their moral bankruptcy.
In the interests of time (and space), let me summarize what Bill Clinton did to enhance the military capacity of a powerful country that may one day be a lot less friendly towards the U.S. than they are today (and they’re not too friendly today). He did several things to pull this off. Bear in mind that, prior to his coming to office (and currently) there were strict rules restricting the transfer of missile technology to a foreign power, which would obviously include China. Also bear in mind that there were equally strict rules regarding the injection of foreign money into our electoral process. And recall that, during the 1992 campaign the Clintons were on George H.W. Bush’s case about being too cozy with Red China, arguing against granting Most Favored Nations treatment to that country. Finally, as I am sure you know, the Clintons were always decrying the role of “Big Business” in this country. Well, all of that went quickly by the way not too long after Slick Willie took office. First, to facilitate the transfer of missile technology to Red China, he moved much of the authority for such transfers from the State Department to the Commerce Department. Why? I have to assume that this was done to facilitate such transfers. Why would this be the case? For 2 reasons, I suspect: (1) Commerce flies a bit further under the radar of public scrutiny than State, and (2) because Ron Brown was the Secretary of Commerce, and I’m sure that Clinton felt that Brown would do whatever it took to raise money for the Dems, in general, and the Clintons, in particular. Then he opened the floodgates that previously stood in the way of these transfers. Why? Because some of those big bad business types were contributing tons of money to the Dems—e.g. Loral Space & Communications, Ltd. (and its president, Bernard Schwartz), Hughes Electronics, Motorola, etc.,etc.—and Bill did not want to do anything that would discourage them from doing so.
This greatly endeared him to the Chinese communists, and they expressed their appreciation by contributing even more money to the Clintons and the Dems—in violation of our campaign fund raising requirements. You don’t think a little thing like breaking the law would stand in the way of Slick Willie, do you? While all of this was going on Hazel O’Leary over at the Energy Department was declassifying hundreds of thousands of pages of materials bearing on our nuclear technology. And, to complete the picture of betrayal, Jamie Gorelick was over at the Justice Department creating her infamous (and idiotic) “wall” memo, making it much more difficult for our intelligence people to find out much of what was transpiring. In short, after attacking Bush Senior for being too cozy with Red China, in direct violation of existing rules and procedures, not to mention relevant laws, Bill Clinton jumped right into bed with the Red Chinese (for lots and lots of money—who says the Clintons are greedy?)—to be concluded next week.