>https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/18/us/clinton-says-chinese-money-did-not-influence-us-policy.html
President Clinton said today that reported political campaign contributions from China to the Democrats had not influenced his foreign policy, but he welcomed further investigation into decisions that made it easier for China to launch American satellites and possibly obtain sensitive technology.
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>https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/18/us/clinton-says-chinese-money-did-not-influence-us-policy.html
Representative Porter J. Goss, the Florida Republican who is chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, said an independent counsel may have to be appointed to investigate the Chinese contributions if the Justice Department failed to conduct a thorough inquiry.
The sinister element comes in when we start reading that Chinese intelligence is inserting large amounts of money, Mr. Goss said on the same program. Now, I admit it is possible for anybody to be duped in a campaign about where money comes from. But it is very clear that the Chinese had some reason to give large amounts of money. They wanted something for it. What was it the Chinese wanted?
Samuel R. Berger, the national security adviser, said in a television interview that the United States began permitting the launching of American satellites aboard Chinese rockets in the Bush Administration.
The reason for that is that the telecommunications industry has a tremendous need to put satellites up into the air and that exceeds the launch capacity of the United States, Mr. Berger said on the CNN program Late Edition. He also denied that any campaign contributions had influenced foreign policy.
Mr. Berger said that American companies did not risk passing restricted technology on to the Chinese. The satellites, he said, are put into a black box under the supervision of the Department of Defense and taken to China, put on top of the missile and blown up into the sky. He said there was not technology transfer.
One is not like the other.
That is a complete straw man argument.
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Not at all, I believe it may be the leftovers of the last 4 administrations. Only 10 ppl in on the plan, 3 non-military. That's a lot of MIL not in on the plan.
seems like he was refusing to provide resources for what they wanted to do in Iraq and was pushed out by negroponte. replaced with hayden… who has been nothing but a loud mouth lately…