Despite plenty of historical revisionist attempts to redeem Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg, the executed nuclear spies of another era remain traitors
to the core in the American psyche.
It’s hard to understand, then, why those who accept the execution of a
couple who smuggled U.S. nuclear secrets to the Soviets simply wink at
another couple’s blatant public actions to transfer the next generation of
nuclear secrets to America’s inevitable future enemies in Beijing.
I’m talking about Bill and Hillary Clinton, the Rosenbergs of the ’90s.
The latest development in this ongoing saga was revealed by
WorldNetDaily’s Charles Smith
last week: The Clinton administration has approved the shipment to Communist
China of uranium U-235 – the nuclear isotope used in the atomic bomb
exploded over Hiroshima in 1945.
This is part of a long pattern of technology transfers approved by the
White House, often over the heads of other oversight agencies, including the
FBI, Justice Department and Pentagon. It’s part of a pattern that goes back
to the early days of the Clinton administration when Ron Brown served as
Commerce secretary and was given carte blanche powers to make deals – no
matter the national security implications.
The policy continues today – even though Ron Brown met an untimely and
still unexplained death.
Now, Investor’s Business Daily reporter Paul Sperry reveals the Clinton
administration plans to move the Defense Department’s export licensing
offices to a U.S. Army base far from the Pentagon and other Washington
agencies that seek technical military advice on exports.
“Career licensing officials complain it’s the latest in a series of
steps that have weakened the Pentagon’s role in blocking the transfer of
military-related technology to China and other countries viewed as threats
to U.S, security,” Sperry writes.
Sperry’s startling revelation shows that this one-way flow of
high-technology to China isn’t moving quickly enough for the Clinton
administration. It’s about to go into overdrive during Clinton’s last year
in power.
Sperry reports that this new move is actually being rushed. Originally,
the idea was to do it in 2005. Now it must be completed by August, by edict of
Clinton appointee John Hamre, Deputy Defense Secretary.
“Some Defense officials suspect the administration is speeding up the
move ahead of next November’s election,” reports Sperry.
He quotes a senior Pentagon official involved in arms control policy as
saying, “They’re not at all clear that this move would be supported by the
next administration.”
As usual with this administration, it hasn’t notified Congress of the
move, as required by law.
It seems Hamre is filling the shoes of Ron Brown. He’s the new go-to guy
in the Clinton administration with respect to clearing all national-security
hurdles to high-tech transfers to China.
Last year, he folded the Defense Technology Security Administration and
other related agencies into the newly created Defense Threat Reduction
Agency. Under the reorganization, Sperry reports, DTRA’s export-control
office now comes under the Pentagon’s undersecretary for acquisition, who
deals mainly with defense contractors. It formerly reported to the
undersecretary for policy, “whose office has traditionally been more
concerned with security issues like stopping the spread of arms to
unfriendly nations.”
Last month, Hamre ordered DTRA to come up with a plan by Dec. 16 to speed
up the time it takes to OK export licenses, which are sent to the Pentagon
by the State Department. His new plan gives the armed services just two days
to submit a veto of such deals in the future.
In other words, the military becomes a rubber-stamp operation for the
will of the State Department. It makes one wonder: “What’s the rush?”
Business, business, business. That’s what drives policy in the Clinton
administration. That approach toward business at the expense of the free
market is the hallmark of fascism. The Clinton administration wouldn’t necessarily be
so bad if the business was not always insider wheeler-dealer business.
Special favoritism has pimped an incestuous relationship between
multinational CEOs and Third World tyrants. The short-term political payoffs
may look good. But the long-term fallout may be radioactive.
