Red Obama

With allies like Democrats ...

One of the first things Bill Clinton did as president was transfer oversight of America's supersecret encryption and satellite technologies to Ron Brown's Commerce Dept.  Brown wound up dead in a plane crash, with a .40 cal size hole in his head, but that's a different non-story.  Commerce  became a playground for John Huang, who made regular phone and fax calls to China, and to the PLA's  Lippo Group partner.  Democrats would later argue that "the calls may have been personal."  I'm not making this up.  As a result, Red China went from having a third world rocket technology program, to one that allowed Gen. Xiong, then second in command of the People's Liberation Army, to in 1996  threaten to "vaporize  Los Angeles."  Sales to China of technology by Space Systems/Loral and Hughes Electronics were key, and resulted in the 1999 Defense Authorization Act.  A key provision required that the president notify Congress whether a transfer of missile and space technology to China would harm the U.S. space-launch industry or help China's missile programs.  Why am I talking about this?   Because Obama just overturned it, sending oversight back to Commerce.  Why?  Because Obama wants China to continue underwriting the huge debt he's piling up is my guess.  As an aside (I can't help myself), the Senate hearings into this scandal were bollixed-up when John Glenn, in return for help in retiring huge campaign debt, demanded the hearings focus on Campaign-Finance reform, instead of treason. John Glenn will prolly burn in Hell (9th circle) for that betrayal.