It is clear that the Clinton’s are willing to take on extraordinary risks for minimal near term personal gain. This should be a disqualifying condition, period.

They appear to be unguided by anything approaching a moral compass. Pathetic.

At the very least, it appears as though Bill and Hillary both have been extremely successful in locking up the illegal campaign donations from Chinese niche.

So here is a very cursory review of some of the Clinton’s previous relationships with the ever generous folks of the PRC (People’s Republic of China).
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“We have hundreds of thousands of donors. We are proud to have support from across New York and the country from many different communities,” campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson said. “In this instance, our own compliance process flagged a number of questionable donations and took the appropriate steps to be sure they were legally given. In cases where we couldn’t confirm that, the money was returned.”

The Times examined the cases of more than 150 donors who provided checks to Clinton after fundraising events geared to the Chinese community. One-third of those donors could not be found using property, telephone or business records. Most have not registered to vote, according to public records.

Dishwashers, waiters and others whose jobs and dilapidated home addresses seem to make them unpromising targets for political fundraisers are pouring $1,000 and $2,000 contributions into Clinton’s campaign treasury. In April, a single fundraiser in an area long known for its gritty urban poverty yielded a whopping $380,000. When Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) ran for president in 2004, he received $24,000 from Chinatown.

-that would normally make it difficult to donate amounts ranging from $500 to the legal maximum of $2,300 per election. …”

“…Hsiao Yen Wang, a cook in Chinatown, is listed as giving Clinton $1,000 on April 13. Contacted yesterday, she told The Post she had written a check.

But it was on behalf of a man named David Guo, president of the Fujian American Cuisine Council, and Wang told The Post that Guo had repaid her for the $1,000 contribution.

Such “straw donations” are strictly prohibited by federal law.

In addition, yesterday’s search by The Post also turned up several $1,000 donations from Chinatown that were made by cooks, dishwashers, a cashier and a college student. …”

Loral’s chairman, Bernard Schwartz, has personally been the single largest campaign contributor to the national Democratic Party during the Clinton presidency, making $1.1 million in contributions in recent years.

When Loral was granted the waiver in February by the Clinton administration, the aerospace corporation was under investigation by the Justice Department for providing unauthorized assistance to China’s ballistic-missile program. Justice Department officials were concerned that a waiver might make it tougher to bring a potential criminal prosecution against Loral.

Justice Department officials were reportedly not properly consulted before the administration’s waiver decision. Loral has denied any wrongdoing, while the Justice Department continues its investigation.

In 1994 Bernard Schwartz, CEO of Loral Aerospace, went to China with Commerce Secretary Ron Brown. Bernard Schwartz, by co-incidence, also donated just over a million dollars to the DNC.

Beijing obtained detailed information on the U.S. GPS system through the Clinton administration during the 1990s. Chinese military officers were given detailed briefings on construction, design, coding, and manufacturing GPS systems through President Clinton.

For example, in 1997, Chinese army officers were given a demonstration in Sunnyvale, Calif., by Ashtech, a maker of GPS receivers. The briefing for the PLAAF and Chinese Navy officers states, “Ashtech produces a receiver that uses both the U.S. GPS signals and the Russian GLONASS signals resulting in significantly greater availability and integrity.”

In 1999, the Clinton administration offered the PLAAF the latest in advanced “mobile radars,” command and control systems, GPS navigation, and “surveillance avionics” such as “air to air,” “air to ground,” and “surface area movement” surveillance radars.

The FAA documents forced from the Clinton administration by the Freedom of Information Act also show extensive briefings on GPS technology given to the PLAAF officers. One such document describes in English and Chinese the workings of the GPS “space segment” and the system’s “ground control segment” including the central control location in Colorado.

The document also details how GPS works using “triangulation from satellites” to “measure distances using the travel time of a radio signal” and “very accurate clocks.”

The Clinton gift of GPS technology to Beijing also gave the People’s Liberation Army a new offensive punch.

It is known that Chinese air force aircraft are often equipped with U.S. GPS receivers for navigation and more accurate bombing. In addition, many of the aircraft and missiles sold by China to Iran and Sudan are equipped with GPS systems.

China is also deploying its DH-10 long-range cruise missile. The subsonic missile appears to be in the final stages of development. It is to be deployed on a three-launcher road mobile platform. The DH-10 has a 930-mile range.

Its guidance system is reportedly based on U.S. technology obtained by the Chinese during the Clinton administration, again using GPS navigation this time combined with electro-optical digital scene mapping for the final attack mode.

The Pentagon reported in 2003 that China had improved its ballistic missile force with U.S GPS technology. The improvements enable Chinese missiles to now accurately strike the U.S. base at Okinawa with “satellite-aided guidance” navigation technology obtained from America during the Clinton administration.

The Clinton administration was warned that the unbridled transfer of space technology would improve the Chinese offensive missile force. The Clinton GPS transfer and its military impact were documented in a 1997 Rand Corp. report forced from the U.S. Commerce Dept. by a federal lawsuit.

“The most troubling potential transfer to China is Rockwell’s proposed joint venture deal with the Shanghai Broadcast Equipment Factory and the Shanghai Avionics Corporation, the latter of which is a key enterprise of the Aviation Industries of China,” states the 1997 Rand report.

“Rockwell Collins Navigation and Communications Equipment Company, Ltd. will design, develop, and build Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation receivers systems for the Chinese market. These components have serious dual-use applications, since the acquisition of reliable GPS data can enhance, to varying degrees, the capacity of militaries to field highly accurate cruise and ballistic missiles, such as those used to intimidate Taiwan during March 1996.”

According to the 1997 Rand Corp. report on the Chinese Defense Industry, “More accurate GPS systems would enhance the PLA’s ability to carry out attacks against Taiwan’s military and industrial facilities, potentially reducing the ability of the Taiwanese military to defend itself against PRC coercive diplomacy.

“The use of GPS to enhance the accuracy of long-range Chinese cruise missiles, coupled with long-range sensors, would raise serious concerns for the U.S. Seventh Fleet in the Pacific, and possibly circumscribe their ability to provide an effective deterrent in a crisis over Taiwan.”

It is a significant fact, although little noted in the press, that the FBI is the likely source of the account of Chung’s testimony. FBI Director Louis Freeh publicly opposed Attorney General Janet Reno last year when she rebuffed appeals from congressional Republicans to appoint an independent counsel to investigate campaign finance allegations. Freeh has made a point of distancing himself from Clinton, his nominal boss, while cultivating relations with Republican leaders in Congress.
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Bill’s generous Chinese donar:

-Johnny Chung, a Los Angeles businessman who fled to China last year to avoid a subpoena, then returned to the United States earlier this year.

Chung pled guilty in March to charges of bank and tax fraud related to his activities in laundering campaign contributions to the Democratic Party. While he was the nominal donor, he was serving as a front man for foreign contributors who could not legally give money to an American election campaign.

Chung has reportedly told federal investigators he funneled nearly $100,000 from a Chinese military officer to President Clinton’s reelection campaign. The officer, Lieutenant Colonel Liu Chao-ying, is a top level Chinese aerospace executive and the daughter of Liu Huaqing, who recently retired as China’s top military commander and remains a member of the Politburo, the ruling body of the Chinese Communist Party.