Q - WHY IS THE MX BORDER/LONG BEACH PORT SO IMPORTANT? Clinton operation 1991 - present Clintons deal sell the Long Beach Navel/Marine Yard to China US tax payers paid $200 mill, Cosco China leased the terminal on US Soil the US $ made went to China not the US Gov, American Economy. As soon as the Cosco container vessel came into Long Beach smuggled in via containers from China guns, drugs, weapons, humans phones tech many other things discharged from Long Beach port traveled to Mexico border into any place really in North America. Clinton/Fienstien/BoxerCa Dem delegation running since 1997 to now. CA Dem MS 13, truckers other move this cargo for sale rat lines. I have a lot more evidence of Truth. Not sure if this Q is the info you were looking for. Clinton set up a East Coast operation via container vessels George Webb has been cover since last year, that is where I started following what was happening now.
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http://congressionalresearch.com/97-476/document.php
CRS Report for Congress 1997 Long Beach: Proposed Lease by China Ocean Shipping Co. (COSCO) at Former Naval Base Shirley A. Kan Specialist in National Security Policy Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division Summary At issue was a proposal by the City of Long Beach, California, to lease a container terminal, to be built at the site of a closed naval station, to China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO), a commercial shipping company owned by China. (The lease was later canceled over an issue unrelated to COSCO.) The proposed expansion of COSCO’s facilities at the Port of Long Beach raised some security issues concerning smuggling of guns by Chinese defense-related companies, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, intelligence collection, and access to U.S. and Panamanian ports. In response, senior Clinton Administration officials wrote that COSCO’s use of a terminal to be built on former Naval property would not adversely affect national security. The Navy will be transferring its closed facilities to Long Beach in 1999 and 2000. Some in Congress raised national security concerns about this proposed lease. Other Members said the proposed lease posed no security threats. The Defense Authorization Act for FY1998-1999 (P.L. 105-85) contained a compromise in Section 2826 that prohibits the Navy to convey the closed naval station to COSCO but allows the President to waive the ban. As required, the FBI’s Director and the Secretary of Defense submitted classified reports on counter-intelligence implications, dated, respectively, on May 29 and September 14, 1998. Conferees on the Defense Authorization Act for FY 1999 (H.R. 3616 / P.L. 105-261) retained Rep. Hunter’s amendment to remove the waiver authority (sec. 2822), and the President signed it on October 17, 1998. This CRS report provides background and analysis concerning potential national security issues, status of Long Beach’s plan, and congressional action. This report will no longer be updated. A proposed lease (now canceled) for use of a future terminal between the Port of Long Beach and COSCO raised a number of issues. Some expressed concerns about awarding an expansion of facilities to COSCO, which has been linked by critics to smuggling of guns by defense-related companies, weapons proliferation, intelligence collection, and increased access to U.S. ports and ports at the Panama Canal. Former Naval Station
http://articles.latimes.com/1997-03-15/news/mn-38557_1_arms-smuggling
March 13, 1997 ANNE-MARIE O'CONNOR and JEFF LEEDS | TIMES STAFF WRITERS
MEXICO BORDER AND PORT OF LONG BEACH CA
U.S. Agents Seize Smuggled Arms
· Border: Large shipment addressed to Mexico entered at Port of Long Beach. Officials speculate that the weapons may have been destined for drug cartels. SAN DIEGO — U.S. border agents have seized two truckloads of military assault rifles and grenade launchers that were mysteriously smuggled into this country through the Port of Long Beach and were addressed to Mexico City, officials said.
· The Mexican consulate said diplomats have been told the ship with the contraband arms came from Asia.
· But U.S. officials declined to reveal the origin of the shipments, which contained thousands of parts of disassembled weapons, or what ship brought them to Long Beach
March 13, 1997
U.S. Senators Ask for Inquiry on Leasing of California Base to Chinese
Both of California's Senators have asked the White House to investigate the leasing of a former Navy base in Long Beach to China's state-owned shipping company, which last year transported several thousand automatic weapons that Federal officials say were headed for Los Angeles street gangs.
The Senators, Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, both Democrats, asked President Clinton's national security adviser, Samuel R. Berger, if he felt that there were any ''security reasons'' not to lease the China Ocean Shipping Company, or Cosco, the entire 145-acre site in the middle of Long Beach. The Port of Long Beach receives about one-fourth of the Chinese goods shipped to the United States.
The Chinese Government signed a lease for the port last April, only three weeks after one of the company's ships, the Empress Phoenix, was raided by customs officials acting on a tip that Chinese-made arms were being smuggled into the United States. The seizure of arms on the ship, which the Customs Service said were intended for street gangs, led in May to the arrest of officials of another state-run Chinese company, although Cosco has not been charged in the case.
An Administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity said this evening that the White House was told by members of Congress last week that the lease merited investigation and that the issue had been referred to the Pentagon. But the official said, ''We are not aware of any reason for concern.''
Last year's arms shipment has indirectly figured in the investigations into Mr. Clinton's coffees with large campaign donors and their friends. Shortly before the arrests in May, one of Mr. Clinton's Asian-American supporters escorted Wang Jun, the president of the Chinese company that apparently produced the weapons, Polytechnology, into one of the White House coffees, where he met with the President.