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1996, the year Bill Clinton
and Al Gore were reelected,
was the Chinese Year of the Rat.
PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION
ThePresident, Vice President,and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason,bribery,or other high crimes and misdemeanors [emphasis added].
Constitution of the United States, Article II, Section 4
In December 1998 FBI Director Louis Freeh recommended to Attorney General Janet Reno that an independent counsel investigate a core group of covered persons, among them President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore. Reno ignored the FBI directors recommendation.
Year of the Rat is about bribery, corruption, and foreign penetration of the American government at the highest levelsto an extent totally unprecedented. Since the book was first published in the fall of 1998, new revelations and developments have only confirmed what we outline in these pages. Indeed, if anything, the problem is worse than we could have imagined back in 1998, the corruption far deeper.
From the very first writing of Year of the Rat, we felt there was something missingnamely, how did they get away with it? Back then we could discern only the results of a massive conspiracy to obstruct justice. Now we know the details of what happened. In the new chapters, which highlight material that has emerged since the books initial publication, the reader will be startled by the sordid picture of a corrupt and demoralized Justice Department directed from the top to cover up the actions of Bill Clinton and Al Gore.
Whats more, we can now detail how the Clinton-Gore administration covered up Charlie Tries germ warfare activities and how American investors are inadvertently financing the Chinese militarys modernization.
In preparing this updated edition, as we began to review the previous material and to consider the latest revelations, we were surprised to discover how much of the administrations plan directly involved Vice President Al Gore. The administrations effort to obstruct justice was initiated to protect Gore, not Clinton. And we now know also that Gore, more than Clinton, is to blame for the administrations failure to halt massive Russian military sales to China and that John Huangs fund-raising magic on Gores behalf was of a magnitude we never suspected.
Yes, matters are far worse than even we had realized. President Clinton was impeached, but, as you will see, it was for the wrong reason.
Edward Timperlake and William C. Triplett II
July 2000
CHAPTER 1
THE FAUSTIAN BARGAIN
On a wall in the basement of the United States Capitol in Washington, a bas-relief depicts a Greek warrior engaged in mortal combat with a snake. The artist captures the moment when the man raises his weapon to strike the deathblow. Across the tableau is one word: Courage.
Artistically, physical courage is easy to depict. Moral courage is another matter. Moral courage requires taking a cold, hard look at the world and then acting, accepting the consequences, and knowing that the greatest good will ultimately be served. Moral courage demands sacrificethe subordination of self-interest to the interests of others. To be morally or intellectually courageous requires a basic sense of honesty and integrity coupled with the will to act decisively on those principles. Moral character is of great matter in a leader and will inevitably affect the substance of his performance. Courage, character, and performance cannot be separated.
In these areas we have found President Clinton and his administration wanting. They have failed in their duty to the national interest. What is happening on Bill Clintons watch while he serves as president and commander in chief is rapidly becoming a matter of history, and the devastating repercussions of his actions will be felt by Americans for generations to come.
Our thesis is simple: The Clinton administration has made a series of Faustian bargains and policy blunders that have allowed a hostile power to further its aims in Washington. In the main, Bill Clinton and Al Gore did it for money.
The hostile power is the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). It is the only foreign regime currently targeting American cities for nuclear destruction.
The PRC, under the direction of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is engaged in four major lines of activities, all of which are contrary to the interests of the Chinese people, neighboring countries , U.S. friends and allies around the world, and ultimately the American people.
The Clinton administration sold out Americas national security to one of our most dangerous adversaries merely to raise campaign cash.
First, arms dealers associated with the CCPs military arm, the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA), have transferred weapons of mass destruction and the means to produce them to terrorist nations, threatening Israel, our Gulf allies, and even Europe.
Second, the PLA itself is suppressing the Chinese peoples legitimate desire for democracy and human rights.
Third, the PLA has a history of aggression against neighboring countries, including Tibet and India, and in recent times has shown a willingness to bully others, including Japan Vietnam, the Philippines, and the Republic of China on Taiwan.
Finally, the PRCs unjustified military modernization and expansion program threatens Americas foreign policy interests and national security.
Before Bill Clinton took office, the United States was the prime obstacle to the CCPs ambitions to dominate East Asia. After he was elected, the CCP expressed two major needspolitical and economic intelligence on the United States, and assistance with its military modernization program. The Clinton administration has met both Communist Chinese goals.
In these pages, we will show that, in order to gain and hold onto power, the Clinton administration has acted recklessly, allowing the wrong people to gain access to our most important political and economic secrets. Any number of Chinese arms dealers, spies, narcotics traffickers, gangsters, pimps, accomplices to mass murder, communist agents, and other undesirables will appear in these pages all associated one way or another with the White House and money.
The most favorable explanation for this betrayal is incompetence. As the president said, Mistakes were made. But it is far more likely that in order to gain campaign contributions and pay hush money to witnesses, the Clinton-Gore administration turned a deliberate blind eye to these threats to our national interests.
Moreover, we believe that the Clinton administrations help to the Chinese military and the cover-ups of Chinese arms proliferation were motivated by equal parts corruption and classic appeasement.
How we intend to show this rests on evidence. And here we ran into a number of initial stumbling blocks:
Two crucial witnesses, Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and Assistant Commerce Secretary Charles Meissner, perished together in a plane crash.
At least eighteen critical witnesses have fled the country.
Another seventy-nine witnesses have taken the Fifth Amendment, deciding that telling what they know would tend to incriminate them.
