The Secret Hand of
China
from http://www.federal.com/nov24-97/Story01.html
(Washington Post)
Opposition to Starr, Thompson and Burton Linked to China
When the People's Republic of China
does business in the U.S., it is often represented by the Asian-American
law firm of Perkins
Coie, which maintains a large office in Taipei, Taiwan and is
headquartered in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. The company prospectus
boasts of representing "numerous PRC entities in connection with
manufacturing facilities in the United States, numerous PRC entities involved
in U.S. corporate, real estate and acquisition matters, as well as numerous PRC
state-owned enterprises in U.S. corporate and trade matters, including
import-export, shipping, aviation and transportation companies."
Moreover, Perkins Coie claims that it maintains "good
relationships with PRC governmental authorities at the central, provincial and
local levels."
As opposed to John Huang and Maria Hsia, who are known to
the FBI as clandestine agents of Communist China, Perkins Coie does not try to
hide the fact that it is an agent of the PRC.
It comes as a great surprise, then, that Perkins Coie
appeared as legal counsel for no less than seven witnesses who appeared before
the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee to testify about illegal fundraising,
focusing on an illegal plan by the government of China to influence U.S.
elections.
One of those represented by Perkins Coie was none other than
Richard
Sullivan, the former DNC finance
chief responsible for fundraising during the 1996 presidential campaign.
With the shocking revelation by Bob Woodward that the Ministry of State Security in Beijing --
the Chinese equivalent of the CIA -- boasted it had been successful in
"thwarting" the congressional inquiry, the Perkins Coie connection
becomes even more troubling. Did Perkins Coie work with Committee Democrats to
block the inquiry? The actions of the Senators speak for themselves. When
Sullivan was before the Committee for the second time, dissembling and evading
his way through the flak put up by Republican Senators, it was Senator Glenn
who launched into a filibustering tirade about the "unfairness" of
the investigation. When Chairman Thompson had to gavel the filibustered hearing
to a close without giving Senator Specter a chance to thoroughly interrogate
Sullivan, Glenn reminded Thompson that he would have to give a three-day
advance notice if he wanted to continue questioning Sullivan. Sullivan was off
the hook.
This event was symptomatic of the manner in which Democrats
on the Committee managed to obstruct and delay the progress of the committee
until it had to close because of an imposed deadline. It was then that the
Chinese CIA took credit. Committee Democrats Levin and Toricelli have both
taken money from Chinese agent John Huang, and Senator Glenn has offered to
negotiate on behalf of John Huang.
Starr Vs. China
If China thwarted the Congressional inquiry, what is China
doing about Kenneth Starr and the other independent counsels investigating the
White House? A lot, it seems.
There are two organizations devoted to attacking Starr and
getting negative stories about him in the U.S. media. James Carville's
Education and Information Project and Lynn Cutler's Back to Business Committee.
And who are listed as the incorporators of both committees? None other than Robert Bauer,
Judith Corley and Holly Shadler, all of Perkins Coie.
According to an interview of James Carville by the American
Spectator, it was none other than Bill Clinton's personal
lawyer Robert
Barnett of Williams & Connolly, who
advised him to seek legal and financial assistance for his Starr attack with
Robert Bauer of Perkins Coie.
It comes as no surprise, then, that both Carville and Cutler
keep the donor lists for their committees a secret. But a few donations have
leaked out anyway. Chinese bag man Johnny Chung has donated $25,000 to the Back
to Business Committee. There is reason to assume that the money came directly
from the Chinese government, since Johhny Chung has received wire transfers
from the Bank
of China, a bank owned and operated by the Chinese government.
Johnny Chung has pled the Fifth Amendment. Congressional probers have also
discovered that the group got funding from an Arkansas firm partly owned by
Lippo, where John Huang worked.
Both Carville's and Cutler's organizations have devoted
their efforts to campaigns against Kenneth Starr, Dan Burton, and the Internet.
The White House "Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce" report
that linked critics of the White House in a global conspiracy was distributed
briefly through the Back to Business web site. And Carville's web site boasts
that his anti-Starr campaign "has generated over 450 stories on the Lexis Nexis database of major news sources."
Was this what Senator Thompson referred to when he said
intelligence showed Chinese agents "attempting to communicate Beijing's
views through media channels in the United States"?
One thing is clear. The U.S. mainstream media has
uncritically disseminated the propaganda produced by these two organizations.
White House Skunk Works
If Democratic Senators did the bidding of China on the
Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, are they doing the bidding of China in
thwarting the investigation by the Independent Counsels as well? Consider the
following:
Senator Carl Levin has for over a year demanded immense
quantities of paperwork from independent counsels who pose threats to President
Clinton. The independent counsels have no doubts about what Levin is up to.
"This information would go right into the skunk works at the White House
to use against us," a senior lawyer in one of the independent counsel
offices told columnist Bob Novak last week. "But we are not
intimidated."
The Failure of the U.S. Media
Why would the Chinese government thwart an inquiry into
illegal fundraising and corruption at the White House? It is quite simple.
Having contributed so heavily to Bill Clinton's election in 1992 and his
re-election in 1996, it is now merely protecting its investment.
Where is the U.S. media on this unfolding scandal? Why has
nobody reported, much less followed up on, the shocking revelations by Bob
Woodward and William Safire? Safire reported last week that the Justice
Department has not even
questioned John Huang, which it knows to be a spy. Why not?
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