Serving Two Flags The Bush Neo-Cons and Israel

[seemslikeadream]

By STEPHEN GREEN
September 3, 2004

Bryen and the China Commission

In 1997, "Defense Week" reported (05/27/97) that, ...." the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence reaffirmed that U.S.- derived technology from the cancelled Lavi fighter project is being used on China's new F-10 fighter." The following year, "Jane's Intelligence Review" reported (11/01/98) the transfer by Israel to China of the Phalcon airborne early warning and control system, the Python air-combat missile, and the F-10 fighter aircraft, containing "state-of-the-art U.S. electronics."

Concern about the continuing transfer of advanced U.S. arms technology to the burgeoning Chinese military program led, in the last months of the Clinton Administration, to the creation of a Congressional consultative body called the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission. The charter for the "The China Commission", as it is commonly known, states that its purpose is to...."monitor, investigate, and report to the Congress on the national security implications of the bilateral trade and economic relationship between the United States and the Peoples Republic of China." The charter also reflects an awareness of the problem of "back door" technology leaks: "The Commission shall also take into account patterns of trade and transfers through third countries to the extent practicable."

It was almost predictable that in the new Bush Administration, Dr. Stephen Bryen would find his way to the China Commission. In April 2001, with the support of Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and Senator Richard Shelby (R-Alabama) Bryen was appointed a Member of the Commission by Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert. Last August, his appointment was extended through December of 2005.

Informed that Bryen had been appointed to the Commission, the reaction of one former
senior FBI counter-intelligence official was: "My God, that must mean he has a "Q
clearance!" (A "Q" clearance, which must be approved by the Department of Energy, is the designation for a Top Secret codeword clearance to access nuclear technology.)
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[ugarte]

1. Ashcroft will never put a neo-con in jail

but Ryan Anderson, the Oregon soldier just convicted of chatting with FBI terrorist poseurs on the Internet, faces a possible life sentence.

Oh, yes, he is a convert to Islam. Might that have something to do with it?

[Eloriel]

2. More treason

or close enough for government work.

Thank God all these bits and pieces of information are coming out. Thank God for the internet.

[calimary]

3. But the BIBLE says you cannot serve two masters...

Oh, sorry. That must be the LIBERAL Bible.

[DinahMoeHum]

4. Our foreign policy has come under foreign management.

n/t

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

5. If Pro-Israeli Socialists were serving in high positions in our government

they might have a beneficial moderating influence on Israel and actually work for peace and justice for both sides in the Palestinian-Israeli turmoil, which would be in the long-term best interest of the State of Israel. Instead, unfortunately, we get the Pro-Israeli fascists in the Bush administration.