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Joe Sestak - Clinton's Silent Watchdog Charles R. Smith Democrat Candidate Did Nothing to Stop Espionage
On the surface, Joe Sestak seems like the perfect Democrat candidate. Sestak is giving Republican Representative Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania a tough fight for his seat in Congress. However, like most former Clinton administration officials, Sestak has much to hide and little to say about his work during the 1990s.
Sestak is an ex-Navy admiral who served as Director of Defense Policy on the Clinton National Security Council from 1995 to 1997. Sestak often served in positions that required expertise in weapons and space technology. Sestak served in the G.W. Bush administration as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations Warfare Requirements and Programs In fact, Sestak wrote a detailed report on Navy Space Policy Implementation in May 2005 before retiring from the service.
Despite his vocal campaign today, Sestak served in the Clinton White House as the "silent" watchdog over U.S. Defense policy. The reason why I can legitimately call Sestak the "silent" watchdog is because at no time during the various Clinton scandals did Sestak raise any alarm.
For example, the admiral did nothing to stop Chinese espionage from obtaining a vast array of American military technology. Sestak prides himself as being a patriot and an expert in military space technology, yet the records show that he remained silent when encrypted satellite communications systems, missile nose cone designs, and radiation-hardened chip technology were virtually given to the Chinese army.
Please note – for those who are not military minded – radiation-hardened chip technology has one major function: to keep computers alive during a nuclear war.
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Memos to Lake
In 1995, Sestak's boss at the White House, Tony Lake, received a letter from then-CEO of Hughes, C. Michael Armstrong. "The USG [U.S. government] does not require Congressional approval to remove commercial satellites from the United States Munitions List (USML), which is under State Department jurisdiction, and placing them on the Commerce Control List (CCL), which is under Commerce Department jurisdiction," wrote Armstrong.
"It is my understanding that State has resisted vigorously Commerce attempts to do just that. For the national good, this situation must change. A commercial communications satellite is not a defense item. State Department control of satellites is not required for national security. Continued State Department control is damaging to the U.S. satellite industry and is not warranted."
Sestak certainly must have disagreed with C. Michael Armstrong's description of U.S. satellites as "not a defense item." After all, Sestak wrote the plan for the U.S. Navy space warfare. However, much like the dog that didn't bark at a burglar, Sestak remained silent as President Clinton agreed with Armstrong, moving all oversight for satellites to the Commerce Department. Thus, the Chinese army was able to steal advanced U.S. missile and space technology. When President Clinton moved the oversight of satellite exports from the State and Defense departments to the Commerce Department, C. Michael Armstrong and his "aero-spaced" counterparts wrote a thank-you letter to Clinton. On May 3, 1996, a letter from the CEOs of Hughes, Lockheed and Loral expressed their thanks directly to Bill Clinton.
"In October of last year we wrote to you asking you to complete the transfer of responsibility for commercial satellite export licensing to the Department of Commerce. Your administration recently announced its intention to do just that."
"We greatly appreciate this action which demonstrates again your strong commitment to reforming the U.S. export control system," states a letter signed by Hughes CEO Armstrong, Lockheed CEO Norman Augustine and Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz.
Silent Sestak Still, Sestak had time to raise objections. Instead, he toed the White House line, remaining silent while memo after memo passed to his boss, Tony Lake. One such secret 1996 White House memo shows that Loral requested that President Clinton delay a pending waiver for a satellite export at the same time that Loral was under investigation by the FBI for sending advanced satellite technology to China without a waiver. According to the July 1, 1996 action memo for Presidential National Security Advisor Anthony Lake, "In mid-June, Globalstar's parent company, Loral requested that we temporarily delay evaluation of their request for a national interest waiver for this project. The company has now asked us to resume processing of their application, and State has confirmed its support for approval of the license." "The Dept. of State, with the concurrence of the Departments of Commerce and Defense and the Officer of Science and Technology Policy, recommends that the President report to Congress that it is in the national interest to waive the Tiananmen Square sanctions in order to allow the licensing of communications satellites and related equipment for export to China," states the memo. In July 1996, President Clinton signed the waiver for Loral immediately after the memo to Lake. Clinton's waiver gave Loral enough cover to claim that any transfers of advanced missile technology were covered. The result was that the FBI had to close the investigation. Yet, there were memos that Sestak must have missed. In a September 1994 memo to Clinton, Harold Ickes, then White House chief of staff, informed him that Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz could be used to raise campaign donations "in order to raise an additional $3,000,000 to permit the Democratic National Committee to produce and air generic TV/radio spots as soon as Congress adjourns." Ickes then urged Clinton to invite Schwartz to the White House "to impress [him] with the need to raise $3,000,000 within the next two weeks." In another memo, Ickes informed Clinton that Schwartz "is prepared to do anything he can for the administration." Between October 1995 and March 1996, as Clinton mulled over whether to ignore the State, Justice, and Defense Departments' reasons against granting Loral waivers to export advanced technology to China, Loral Chairman Bernard Schwartz injected more than $150,000 into the DNC's coffers. Where Was Joe? When the Chinagate scandal broke, Loral went down in flames, cited for a long list of illegal exports to the Chinese military. The result was that Loral went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy and to this day it is struggling to survive. In addition, Hughes was charged with 123 counts of violating national security. Hughes pleaded no contest to the 123 charges filed by the U.S. State Department and has since paid a record fine.
All of the violations took place during Sestak's term as a national security adviser in the Clinton White House. To this day, the admiral-turned-candidate has said nothing about the money that passed to Clinton from the Chinese army or the advanced space technology that passed by his desk on its way to Beijing.
In comparison, his opponent, Curt Weldon, objected loudly and acted quickly. Weldon led the effort in Congress to halt the wild exports to the Chinese army. Weldon ignored the special interests such as Loral, Hughes and Lockheed and succeeded in getting the oversight for space technology exports back under Defense Department control.
Still, Sestak holds the record for all-time Clinton crony contributors giving money to his campaign. The givers include Madeline Albright, Sandy Berger, Richard Clarke, John Deutch, Jamie Gorelick, Anthony Lake, John Podesta, and Daniel Poneman. Many of the Sestak contributors also gave the U.S. public hours of amusement with a wide variety of Clintonoid scandals.
Albright, the former secretary of state, once danced with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il and called him "charming." Her comments came at about the same time Kim was finishing off his nuclear weapons program while starving to death 2 million of his own people.
Sandy Berger worked with Sestak at the White House. Sandy would later plead guilty to stuffing his underpants with secret documents from the National Archives and destroying a few that might break bad on his days in the Clinton White House. Sandy had to resign from his advisory position to the Kerry campaign for his secret BVDs.
John Deutch had a hard time after leaving the director's chair at CIA. Deutch had to be pardoned by then-President Clinton for stealing CIA secrets and leaving them on his home PC. The PC contained not only secret CIA files but also a bevy of naked beauties from various porn sites around the Internet. These are a few of the people one can expect to advise Joe Sestak if he were to get elected. The Clinton administration may be long gone, but the illegitimate children of Clinton's legacy remain. There are a dozen issues and scandals that Joe Sestak could have acted upon. China, North Korea, Iraq, Iran, and Osama bin Laden all passed by his desk without a comment. Much like the watchdog that did not bark, Sestak did nothing when the situation called for action.
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