Lest we forget Clinton’s Chinagate scandal, the worst in US history

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Comments Hillary Clinton makes in this recent clip are quite interesting given the fact that she is known for her alleged corrupt dealings with China. She seems to have been involved in the transfer of military secrets to China.

In that ridiculous spiel, she tried to make something out of a joke the President told. She’s pathetic. What is more interesting is her past history with China.

THE CHINAGATE SCANDAL

The “Chinagate” fundraising scandal plagued the 1996 Bill Clinton-Al Gore campaign and Hillary was very much involved.  Chinagate aka Commercegate is the most serious scandal in U.S. history. It involves the transfer of America’s most sensitive technology, including but not limited to nuclear missile and satellite technology, apparently in exchange for millions of dollars in contributions to the 1996 Clinton-Gore re-election effort and the Democratic National Committee.

The Chinagate scandal of 1996 ended up in an award of 900,000 in attorney’s fees and costs to Judicial Watch ten years later.

The scandal was an apparent scheme by the Clinton administration to sell seats on taxpayer-funded trade missions in exchange for campaign contributions to the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign.

Judicial Watch began an investigation and Clinton administration officials deliberately concealed and destroyed records regarding the trade mission and testimony was falsified.

Nolanda Hill, a business partner and confidante of the Clinton then-Commerce Secretary Ron Brown testified in a court hearing during the litigation that the Clinton White House told Brown to “delay the [Judicial Watch] case by withholding the production of documents prior to the 1996 elections and to devise a way not to comply with the court’s orders.”

She also testified that Brown, who died in a plane crash during a trade mission to Bosnia, told her that Hillary conceived of the scheme to sell trade mission seats. Brown complained of  being “Hillary’s blankety-blank tour guide.”

The case was so serious and so damaging that the Commerce Department asked for a judgment against itself to avoid any further revelations. The court refused and insisted the Commerce Department conduct a new search for trade mission records and authorized discovery into the illegal concealment and destruction of government records.

Congressional investigations, FEC investigations, a criminal inquiry by the Justice Department and the FBI followed. The DOC changed its trade mission policy which abandoned all political contributions affecting mission seats.

Finally, in 2006, without any fanfare, an appellate court upheld an award of 900,000 to Judicial Watch.

While there was a lot of circumstantial evidence, there was never a smoking gun.

~ Clinton friend Yah Lin “Charlie” Trie pleaded guilty to charges of violating campaign finance rules in exchange for having pending indictments dropped against him in Washington and Arkansas.

~ According to news reports in 1997, Democratic donor Johnny Chung received a $150,000 transfer from the Bank of China three days before he handed then-First Lady Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff a $50,000 check.

~ Then-Vice President Al Gore received political donations from Buddhist nuns who had taken a vow of poverty.

~ President Clinton admitted in 1997 that he invited major campaign donors to spend the night in the White House. The Clintons hosted 404 overnight guests.

~ During the investigation by the Department of Justice, about 120 people connected to “Chinagate” either fled the country or pleaded the Fifth Amendment to prevent testifying.

Judicial Watch brought the case on behalf of shareholders of Loral Space & Communications Ltd. They transferred sensitive US missile technology to China in the 1990s. The CEO Bernard Schwartz gave $1.5 million to various Democratic Party entities including Bill Clinton’s 1996 reelection campaign.

At the same time Schwartz and Loral convinced the Clinton Administration to transfer technology export licensing authority from the State Department to the more politically-influenced Commerce Department. Schwartz and Loral then obtained licenses from the Commerce Department that were needed to launch Loral-manufactured communications satellites into orbit from China.

They ended up advancing China’s missile program which is a threat to US national security much as the Clinton-Russian uranium deal is..

Federal racketeering charges were never brought.

Then there was the contribution scandal involving fugitive Norman Hsu during Hillary’s last presidential run. She kept most of the money he contributed even after she knew he admitted guilt in illegal bundling of the contributions. He had raised more than $1 million for then-Senator Clinton’s presidential campaign.

There were questions, but no smoking gun.

In January 2001, immediately before Bill Clinton left office, he granted a presidential pardon to Marc Rich after his ex-wife and his friend donated a combined $1.45 million to the Clinton Presidential Library. Rich fled the country once he was convicted of tax evasion.

Even Hillary’s 2000 Senate campaign involved an illegal contribution from Hollywood mogul Peter Paul and the leveling of a $35,000 fine by the FEC. Hillary’s finance director was indicted and acquitted.

Recently, very large contributions to the Clinton Foundation and exorbitant speaking fees for Bill Clinton were proven to coincide with favors granted by the State Department and signed off by then-secretary Hillary Clinton. One extremely large donation was tied to the selling of our Uranium to the Russians.

The Benghazi scandal brings us once again to Hillary Clinton’s lack of transparency and suspected intrigue. She deleted 30,000 emails from a private server she was not allowed to use for government documents. She had no right to delete the emails and she did it when Congress announced they were going to subpoena them.

Sources: Media Research Center, Standard Newswire, and the Sentinel

 

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4 years ago

Info from my brother who worked in that Los Alamos lab for decades: When Clinton’s came in and installed their people at the federal level, their person came into The Lab and changed ALL the security there. Used to be that each department had their own ID cards, identifying WHICH department they could go in to. All other areas were off-limits. They changed ALL the security and ID’s to the same so that anyone could go in to anywhere with their ID.
Wen Ho Lee (?) then got into places he wasn’t previously authorized, took a sh!t-load of secret stuff and sent to the ChiComs. Can anyone tell me why we have Chinese with ties to the CCP working in our National Nuclear Laboratory?
My brother – and others complained loudly about the lax security – all to no avail, as the head shed wanted it that way…..

Anonymous
1 year ago
Reply to  billybobtexas

Wake up America, Our fate is sealed….Look to the skys….

Handy Jack
4 years ago

If these democrats are so sure of their inevitability then why are they always resorting to dirty deeds to achieve their goals? The end justifies the means.
The Clinton’s don’t give a rip if China uses tech and weapons against us as long as they can have a pot of gold and rule over the rubes.
That is just sad and on some level they are pathetic.

The Prisoner
4 years ago

This is a good refresher. Obviously US intelligence agencies do not act in the interests of the USA. They knew sensitive technologies were leaving the USA to China. They also knew Hillary was putting classified information on the internet. But, those agencies are willing to frame a president who does not go along. And of course no one in congress asked any questions.

Back in the 90s, no one but Rush was discussing the nuclear technologies going to China.

I must note that there was an energy secretary Bill RIchardson from New Mexico at the time that China obtained missile and warhead technology from the USA, probably from Los Alamos in Richardson’s state. RIchardson would be a key suspect in the espionage.

HonorAmerica
4 years ago

The war has already started this Corona 19 virus is just the beginning. Both Fauci and Gates are invested in the lab in Wuhan . What is the possibility the Clinton’s have invested in it or any other other enterprises in China. There needs to be a though investigation and tax audit for what ever the statue of limitation allows, if there is a limitation in such a case. It’s what put Al Capone in Alcatraz. And while it is going on Freeze her assets. If she doesn’t burn in hell first Freeze her. That BitterITCH is Evil incarnate.

4 years ago

I know this sounds AWFUL, but I hope she knows that when the missiles fly, that her kid and grandkids are gonna FRY, along with another 100 million Americans because SHE sold the ChiComs that technology. – FOR MONEY !!!! WTF ?????…