The Year of the Rat

...Clinton to explain his dire financial straits, Mr...

...John Huang laying out the details of these arrangements...

...Logistics is real war fighting capability...

...We are told that the National Security Agency has electronic intercepts of telephone calls between the President and44 The Riadys, working for Chinese intelligence, placed Huang at the Commerce Department...

...There can be no peace until that mindset totally changes" The Oslo peace process never had a very good chance to work because the gap between the two sides was too wide...

...According to a June 1994 Department of Defense strategic assessment, the deal constituted "a total turnkey transfer of a military aerospace factory" to China...

...He sent faxes out of the office, used the copier, and made telephone calls from a small office set aside for visitors...

...military's wartime logistics system...

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...When security-conscious officials in the administration balked at placing Huang in such a sensitive position in June 1994, the Riadys turned to Hillary Clinton and offered to buy Huang's appointment with hush money payments to Webster Hubbell, the authors assert...

...Less than one month later, Huang started work at the Commerce Department...

...What they didn't know was that behind the scenes Bill Clinton had already made a deal that would make Bush's temporizing on MFN look like firm moral leadership...

...If you thought you already knew all there was to know about the China scandals, think again...

...President Clinton made no fewer than five trips to Long Beach over an 18-month period to lobby the town council in favor of the deal, which was finally put on ice after strong protests in Congress and by local residents...

...Nineteen ninety-six was the Chinese Year of the Rat, and according to William C. Triplett II and Edward Timperlake, the rats were so plentiful at the Clinton White House that only a thorough house-cleaning will rid the place of the Chinese intelligence agents and mobsters to whom the Clintons are beholden...

...This "police force" is now estimated to be over 50,000 members strong—more than twice the number allowed under the Oslo accord...

...One of his main clients, according to the authors, was the trade office of the Chinese government...

...For example, the PLA was told that FedEx's system of package distribution at the Memphis, Tennessee airport is about 95 percent similar to the U.S...

...What are the facts...

...There can be no peace until that mindset totally changes...

...Only days before Bill Clinton took office in January 1993, James Riady and John Huang of Indonesia's Lippo Group donated $loo,000 to the Clinton-Gore inaugural fund...

...Its presence in the midst of Arabdom is intolerable to the Moslem Arabs, an insult that has to be removed...

...The policy is still to break every promise and to violate every provision, as long as it serves to advance the struggle and to damage and hopefully to destroy Israel...

...But the basic flaw in the peace process is the fact that the Arab world has not come to terms with the very existence of Israel...

...Israel is America's most important strategic asset in that part of the world...

...Our State Department, unfortunately, also seems to have fallen under this spell and keeps exhorting the Israeli government to make ever greater accommodations to the Palestinians...

...Clinton's betrayal ranged from leaking classified intelligence documents to wittingly assisting the modernization of the People's Liberation Army (PLA...

...The first hint that Clinton had decided to tilt toward China —and renege on his campaign promises—was delivered by Ron Brown on April 27,1993, at a meeting with Asian-American business leaders in Los Angeles...

...Once Perry became Defense Secretary in the spring of 1994, he launched a series of military exchanges between the United States and China that included sharing nuclear and strategic planning secrets with the Chinese, 19-gun salutes from the Pentagon honor guard to the perpetrators of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacres, and astonishing access to our best protected defense secrets...

...The authors comment: "The CIA surely does not exaggerate when it refers to these sources as 'extremely sensitive.'" Item: When Dick Morris informed Clinton that his 1996 election campaign would fail without an expensive media blitz, Clinton turned once again to the Riadys, who agreed to place Huang at the DNC as a fundraiser, so that they could funnel yet more money through a series of cut-outs to the campaign...

...What Israel could concede without totally compromising its security was not sufficient for the Palestinians...

...The Year of the Rat draws on the raw data files of Senator Thompson's investigation of the campaign finance scandals...

...The policy is still...to advance the struggle and to damage and hopefully to destroy Israel...

...31, 1994, that he be given an interim top-secret security clearance for possible work at the Commerce Department...

...Further (and as yet unreported) payments came from Ng Lapseng, Triad godfather and financial backer of Clinton crony Charlie Trie...

...I The American Spectator would be surprised if China's most-favored nation status is not renewed...

...The Riadys and their Chinese Communist intelligence bosses placed Huang at the Clinton Commerce Department in 1994, with the primary goal of gaining access to classified U.S...

...Item: CIA representatives told the Thompson committee that during his brief tenure at the Commerce Department, Huang saw "between 370 and 55o CIA-produced pieces of American intelligence," including at least three documents marked The DNC's Chinese Money Laundry 80 November 1998 • The American Spectator You deserve a factual look at...

...On the Republican side some consultants are beginning to talk quietly of a 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em' political strategy....Unless the cancer is halted promptly, this kind of thinking will surely spread...

...In fact, the Palestinian Authority (PA...

...Unfortunately, Oslo or no Oslo, that does not seem to be in the cards for the immediate future...

...Arafat, having become the victim of his own rhetoric, has promised his people what Israel has always been unable to give, especially surrendering vital strategic assets, endangering its water supply, admitting hundreds of thousands of so- called refugees, and conceding any part of Jerusalem...

...The White House sponsored a bid by the state-owned China Ocean Shipping Corp., COSCO, to lease the navy yard at Long Beach, California, despite evidence that COSCO was running hostile intelligence operations in the United States and had been involved in gun-running and drug-trafficking...

...One of the first results was the sale of telecommunication and encryption gear to the PLA by Perry crony John Lewis (first reported in these pages in "Peking Pentagon," April 1996...

...They report that a former Stephens secretary testified during the Thompson hearings that: • Huang walked across the street to the Stephens office two or three times a week carrying a folder or small briefcase...

...Why should things now be reversed and why should Israel, the repeatedly aggressedagainst but victorious party, pay a price in territory...

...But that was only the beginning...

...national security concerns, such as encryption, but included other "insider information" of a more commercial nature, which the authors assert could have been worth billions of dollars to the Riadys since it allowed them to time strategic investments in China in accordance with secret policy decisions by the U.S...

...Promises unkept—agreements broken...

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...Huang and the Riadys were but one chapter in the Clinton sell-out to China...

...government...

...At the time, no one noticed the Asian-American "leader" who had asked Brown the question on MFN...

...interviews with former and current intelligence officials...

...Much of this could have been overcome if Arafat, in the more than four years since the handshake, would have shown real evidence of a desire for making peace with Israel and if he would have kept his obligations under the Oslo agreement...

...Another target of the authors is national security adviser Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger...

...It may have been that Huang made additional, as yet unrevealed, business deals with President Bill Clinton from the Stephens office at the Willard...

...But that is not the case...

...Any analysis of the PLA will show that modem logistics is one of its major weaknesses, a weakness we should not want to see fixed...

...The elder Riady spelled out his interests in a "Personal & Confidential" letter to Clinton on March 9,1993, which urged the new president to drop his opposition to MFN...

...Political corruption is like a cancer," the authors state in conclusion...

...The Year of the Rat: How Bill Clinton Compromised American Security for Chinese Money William C. Triplett II and Edward Timperlake Regnery / 256 pages / $24.95 REVIEWED BY Kenneth R. Timmerman I f Bill Clinton and Al Gore are hoping that Topic A will indefinitely deflect public opinion from their appalling national security record until after the November 1998 elections, they should think again...

...Once that strength is diminished, war will follow, and not peace...

...Yasser Arafat made promises that he obviously never had any intention of fulfilling—the principal being the promise to rescind the infamous covenant of the PLO, which unequivocally calls for the destruction of Israel...

...The authors give new substance to Senator Fred Thompson's cryptic suggestions of a methodical game plan organized by the PLA, China's intelligence services, and the Chinese mobto infiltrate and ultimately control the American political establishment...

...On Monday, June 20, 1994, the same day that Hubbell met with Mrs...

...There seems to be much concern, especially in United States government circles, that the so-called peace process has reached an impasse and that it may be ultimately endangered...

...The Year of the Rat is most remarkable for its masterful weaving of the various strands of the fundraising and national security scandals together into a single, coherent tapestry whoseunderlying theme is political corruption...

...The "open door" policy put in place by top appointees allowed Chinese intelli gence agents to walk through sensitive military plants in the United States—including our nuclear weapons labs—taking video footage of classified assembly lines and transmitting them back to analysts in Peking...

...A long-standing friend of Bill who first met Clinton during the 1972 McGovern campaign, Berger was a Washington-based lawyer-lobbyist at Hogan and Hart-son before joining the administration in 1993...

...Instead, "it was Berger who led the charge to repeal export controls on satellites for China...

...Senior PLA officers have been to Memphis repeatedly since the fall of 1996...

...Ng "quietly arrived in the United States from Macau carrying $175,000 in cash," part of which the authors state made its way to Hubbell...

...S ome of the harshest condemnation in The Year of the Rat is reserved for Clinton Defense Secretary William Perry, recognized by the authors as "one of America's most brilliant military scientists...

...This was a classification code that meant: "unauthorized disclosure could result in the death of an asset...

...As the authors show, he was anxious to protect billions of dollars of investments in Communist China and the fortunes of Communist Chinese cronies known as the Princelings...

...His name was John Huang...

...The best way of achieving political reform in China is through capitalist interaction," Riady argued...

...Part of the money was doled out directly by Lippo, which paid Hubbell a $ioo,000 consulting fee that Hubbell has never explained...

...Many Democrats in Congress believed that with Clinton's election, the White House would finally begin to support congressional efforts to block Most Favored Nation trading status with Peking, at least until China improved its behavior on human rights...

...The administration's biggest mistake in military-to-military relations is its obsession with training the PLA in logistics," the authors write...

...Also, the PLO has taken no measures to curb terrorist activity, which was Israel's primary concern and consideration in agreeing to the far-reaching concessions of Oslo...

...But the Clinton administration has quietly welcomed a number of PLA logistics teams to the United States...

...There is also the never-ending incitement to violence, the poisoning of the minds of school children, and the steady anti-Israel invective in Palestinian media...

...No "sacrifice for peace" can change that...

...It would be folly to weaken Israel and to make it a strategic liability for America, instead of an asset...

...I tend to agree that the best way to apply pressures for a more liberal policy in China would be through open trade," Brown said, echoing the Riady letter...

...In The Year ofthe Rat, two top congressional aides wrap up this administration's fundraising scandals with refreshing clarity, linking them to a concerted plan by the Chinese Communist Party to infiltrate the United States government, steal high-technology, and KENNETH R. TIMMERMAN, publisher of Iran Brief, is a frequent contributor to TAS.acquire strategic intelligence, all with the goal of allowing China to dominate Asia in the twenty-first century...

...Their main thesis will not surprise readers of TAS: Bill Clinton made a series of Faustian bargains with the Communist Chinese and their agents in the United States, trading national security for hefty campaign contributions that ultimately financed Dick Morris's now infamous media blitz in late 1995 and 1996...

...and the authors' own reporting in Hong Kong and Macau, where they unmasked the Triad connections of DNC fundraiser Charlie Trie and his mob backer, the mysterious casino operator Ng Lapseng...

...The Republicans will find themselves making the same sort of Faustian bargains for the soul of their party that Clinton and Gore did...

...He became so close to the former DNC chairman that Brown asked on Jan...

...The authors also assert that "at least some of the machine tools made their way to a PLA cruise missile plant...

...The authors write: "It is abundantly clear that Huang did not want anyone to know of this arrangement," and systematically disguised his relationship with the Riadys, Stephens Inc., and the Chinese government...

...With blood and fire we shall liberate Jerusalem" is not a slogan that conveys peaceful intentions...

...John Huang was appointed a trustee of the Democratic National Committee shortly after that Los Angeles rally...

...And, in any case, if "land for peace" is such a good idea, why, for the sake of such peace, shouldn't the Arabs make some such "sacrifice...

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...continues to shelter well-known members of terrorist groups and, more often than not, to enlist them in their so-called police force...

...Netanyahu's alleged "intransigence" is based on hia unwillingness to give away vital strategic assets to those who are sworn to destroy Israel...

...Perry's arrival at the Pentagon as deputy secretary in the spring of 1993 "caused an immediate reversal when it came to the Chinese military...

...The whole concept of "land for peace" is a new one in the history of mankind...

...The basic flaw in the process...

...government files pertaining to China, U.S...

...D uring the 1992 campaign, Bill Clinton and Al Gore repeatedly chastised President Bush for "coddling dictators" in Peking...

...The book also shows that the FBI, CIA, and NSA investigations of Bill Clinton's ties to Communist China are ongoing, serious, and could reveal grave damage to U.S...

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...Less than one month later, Huang wrote Clinton to arrange a White House visit for Riady's father, Mochtar...

...The authors of The Year of the Rat offer astonishing new evidence of Huang's ties to Chinese intelligence, noting the value of the Top Secret documents he spirited away from the Commerce Department to a private office maintained for him in the nearby Willard Hotel by Stephens Inc., Arkansas cronies of President Clinton and business partners of the Riadys...

...It had always been clearly understood that, if a country launched an aggressive war and lost it, a price would have to be paid—usually including the loss of territory...

...This is the more remarkable since it should be clear that the only consideration that keeps Arab aggression against Israel in check is Israel's strength...

...And it isn't clear why Israel should yield any territory at all...

...This mindset includes virtually all Arabs—their leaders and their respective populations...

...The COSCO deal would have allowed the Chinese to conduct electronic espionage against such top secret facilities as Lockheed's famed "Skunk works," where the Stealth Fighter and other top-secret weapons systems are developed...

...In this way, the China Aero-Technology Import-Export Company (CATIC) acquired an entire production line from a former B-1 bomber plant in Columbus, Ohio, and transferred it to a military production plant in China...

...The fault for this is generally attributed to the Israelis and especially to the alleged "intransigence" of Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu...

...Prospects for die Middle East Peace Process What is the likelihood of its ending successfully...

...Item: John Huang—Lippo Bank official, friend of Bill, and representative of ethnic Chinese magnate Mochtar Riadywas actually an agent of Chinese intelligence, working under cover in the United States...

...If not defeated, it continues to replicate...

...He received overnight packages and faxes at the office...

...Under these circumstances, we believe that Berger should 82 November 1998 The American Spectator have recused himself from anything having to do with the PRC, certainly anything to do with trade...

...investments in China, and counter-intelligence investigations of Chinese agents operating in the U.S...

...national security...