Tuesday, May 25, 1999 --- New York (APJP) -- Doug Thompson, of something called Capitol Hill Blue, is one of the morons who has been directed by Republican Venusians to claim that Bill Clinton copped a plea with House "member" Christopher Cox to "cover up" Clinton's so-called treason in the latest Republican Resurrected Fantasy with the street name "ChinaGate."

The 700-page "Cox Report," released to the public today, is "missing" more than 100 pages that some claim detail "White House involvement" in China's extensive theft of U.S. military secrets, material embarrassing to past Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush, and details implicating key officials of the US Department of Energy.

Not only does the Grand Ole Party expect you to believe that the President was personally dealing nuclear secrets from his Pennsylvania Avenue lemonade stand, but that Cox is in cahoots with him to "cover it up."

Now, nobody is actually saying this out loud with the exception of the media, who have an economic stake in doing so -- namely, ratings.

Reminiscent of the prattle pushed by GOPers that Ken Starr and Bill Clinton were working for each other, this instant prevarication were hastily formulated when Cox was slapped awake by finding absolutely no evidence that neither Bill Clinton nor anyone else in his Administration had taken even one action that could be easily twisted into the conclusion that Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton are the Rosenbergs of the 21st Century.

Already MSNBC -- the "All Clinton-Bashing, All the Time Network" -- is calling the Cox Report "startling" and that the search for non-existent Administration culprits is "just the beginning."

MSNBC also claims that China has technology it stole from America that catalogues and allows them to duplicate "every warhead" we have in our arsenal.

That's quite a trick -- inasmuch as China has only 23 warheads -- the same 23 it has had since 1972! We in the U.S., by the way, have more than 6,000 nuclear warheads.

When and where the decision was made by Republicans to create a new Cold War is uncertain, but Americans now find a new peril upon which to turn their hatred -- China.

The fact that Chinese have oval eyes and "yellowish skin" is "appetizing," said one RNC operative -- because "they are easier to spot."

Republicans also claim that details were omitted "for national security" under a "deal" between Cox and the Clinton White House."

Doug Thompson, in his rolling-on-the-floor-hysterical piece in Capitol Hill Blue, claims:

...those who have read the full, unedited, report say it is a stinging indictment of a White House that clearly helped US secrets fall into the hands of Communist China."

"There was a pattern of clear and consistent White House involvement in the transfer of sensitive technology to China," says [one senior junior cousin of the sister of the uncle of one Congressional aide who had access to the report.] The pattern shows, at best, a White House that was incompetent and, at worst, complicit in the loss of US secrets."

If you read between the lines of Republican pap surrounding this issue, you will notice some truth woven craftily into the copy -- but not clearly enough to be discernible. Here are a few examples:

The "pattern" shows the White House might be complicit; the "pubic" version is not a clear-cut indictment of the White House, and; the dots are not connected between Democratic campaign contributions and the White House actions.

Shall I go on?

In short, Cox, like Senator Fred "Hollywood" Thompson, adulterer Henry Hyde, hypocrite Bob Barr, Trent Lott and all the House Managers, is directing and starring in the Clinton Bashing Follies De Jour -- and is nothing much more than a liar.

The funniest part of this release of "nothing," which cost taxpayers at least another $4 million, is that the RNC actually expects you to believe that President Clinton sat down with Cox and "cut a deal" to cover up his "spying!"

Republicans are also claiming -- get this -- that even though Cox couldn't "prove" the President was out-and-out selling nuclear tech to the Chinese, the CIA probably can, but its investigation is oh-so-conveniently "still classified."

According to Chris Ruddy clone Doug Thompson, the CIA has "established a clear pattern of political contributions from Chinese sources and the Loral Corporation with the White House approval of transfer of sensitive technology from Loral to China. The CIA report also found US Department of Energy officials tried to cover up discovery of the China spying."

I doubt it. In fact, what has been shown is that contributions from Loral -- at the direction of its President -- were not made a quid-pro-quo for anything much more than good government. As usual, Republicans have crafted a pile of prevarication based on myth and sloppy reporting by the Washington Post and the New York Times which was untrue to begin with.

It is already clear that the GOP has no shame. It is only a few months since their last farce -- the Clinton Impeachment Show -- and already they are heading toward further political suicides.

Get this: the "public" Cox report does not implicate "key US Department of Energy officials," but "people who have read the full report" (the one from Venus) "suggest" criminal activity on the part of "some Energy Department officials."

Supposedly this "information" has been turned over to Janet Reno for some "secret" reason -- we assume for the purpose of appointing another independent counsel or expanding Ken Starr's non-stop investigation.

After she finishes laughing, Reno will, of course, toss this piece of fiction into the circular, along with the $60 million worth of other solaced "reports" she's received claiming that the Clintons and their team are arch-criminals.

While Reno may well indict some real spies who did their work during the Reagan and Bush Administrations in order to placate Cox and his buddies, the current White House staff and the President won't be included -- inasmuch as Cox already knows that neither the President nor any cabinet official was culpable in the least.

The transmittal of the "Cox Interplanetary Venus Report" will, of course, assure Republicans that they now can call for Reno's head -- yet again.

And how does the GOP explain the "deal" between Cox and Clinton?

They say Cox only made the deal to protect President Reagan from embarrassment.

Now that's a trick inasmuch as President Reagan can't tell his wife from a soup spoon.

The truth is that Cox was put up to this by that part of corporate America who wants to feed at the trough of "Star Wars" -- the new anti-ballistic missile system that we will now surely build to fight the Chinese Peril.

Ha, ha, ha, ha!

And the media, of course, is playing along -- led this morning by the biggest bullshit artist of them all, Tim Russert of NBC, who now claims that Bill Clinton "lied to the people" (again) when he said he was personally unaware of Chinese espionage under his watch.

Of course, Russert doesn't tell you that the President wouldn't have told reporters or you that the Chinese were engaging in espionage even if he suspected or knew it, inasmuch as both the CIA and the FBI had ongoing investigations concerning this matter at the time of that press conference -- and still do. As a matter of fact, the man suspected of some of this spying is walking around free right now -- most probably because he didn't do it.

Russert, after maliciously indicting the President this morning, moved on to explain that Cox seems to have proof of only one thing -- that the Chinese may have stolen technology. What Russert omits, of course, is that every nation -- ally or not -- is constantly engaged in espionage against the U.S. It's part of the burden of being the most technologically advanced nation in the world.

The Cox Report also smears President Bush. How this will impact the 2000 Presidential race is unclear, but we think George W. Bush Jr. can relax.

Cox is notoriously incompetent and his own voters know it.

When the Cox Report is fully vetted before the American People, it will be a laughing stock, much as the Thompson Committee Report on China was two years ago.

Republicans bury the fact that Cox cut a lot of his drivel from public view for one reason: because he knew that the President did not "sell out America" and at worst could be accused of not personally operating as a counter-spy, an element of the POTUS job description not contained in any document we know of.

What's even more ludicrous is that the Republicans and even some Democrats are groaning that China might be on a parity with the US in the future.

Well, of course they might. Russia has been for 50 years.

Did we really believe that the Chinese were stupid?

Let me add this. If I were a Chinese leader and I had been watching the Republican Congress bashing Chinese Americans and the PRC non-stop for more than three years straight, I just might want to beef up my defensive or offensive technology too. Wouldn't you?

If anyone is to blame for this apparent "spying," it is the war-loving Republicans who cannot exist without an enemy to focus their bile.

In a nutshell, the Republicans have no one to blame for this espionage -- if it occurred at all - but themselves.

Now here's another "revelation" -- surprise! Cox is not prepared to "publicly" indict the President for treason.

"That is a very serious charge," said one aide. "The report that the public will see is, without a doubt, a pointed example of how the White House put political considerations above national security, but it does not attempt to assess blame on any single source."

Are you laughing yet?

Okay. Lets see an example.

The Cox Report says the Clinton Administration relaxed restrictions on high-end computer sales to China in 1996, and 600 have since been sold. It also argues that US officials have no effective way to determine whether computers sold for commercial purposes are diverted to military uses.

Wow!

Gee, we sold some supercomputers and we don't know how they were going to be used?

Boy, that sounds like a crime to me. The fact that we sold the same computers to Russia and others to Iraq, Iran and other "enemies of the state," seems not to bother Cox.

So, the Republican plot becomes clear. They will take the "computer" sales and jack them into something far more sinister.

Here's the "proof" from Capitol Hill Blue -- a hard-right propaganda webzine:

"However, high-performance computers legally purchased from US companies have been secretly used by Chinese military institutes and organizations involved in research and development of nuclear weapons, missiles, satellites, spacecraft, submarines, aircraft, military systems, command and control, communications and microwave and laser sensors."

You should be chuckling and shaking your head by now.

The BS goes on!

Cox & Co. also claim, according to the article, that "Hughes Electronics Corporation and Loral Space and Electronics Ltd. illegally transmitted information that helped China improve its military rockets and operations, including the design and reliability of its ballistic missiles and nose cones. Both companies are currently under investigation by the Justice Department."

Sure. Now two of the largest defense contractors in America are also spies.

This statement, however, is only partly true. The part that is untrue and of course most important is that this information was "illegally" transmitted. If that was a fact, then Hughes and Loral would already see their executives in jail, and the trial would have already been held. In a typical Republican sneer at our Justice System -- one being repeated all too many times over the last few year -- people are guilty until proved innocent.

The Cox report claims China obtained information on seven US nuclear warheads, including five still deployed. They are the W-88 and W-76, both of which are launched from Trident submarines; the W-87, which is atop the Peacekeeper MX intercontinental ballistic missile, and the W-78 and W-62, which are on Minuteman III ICBMs.

But Cox really doesn't know this at all. How could he? Does he have a friend in the Chinese military? The report is honestly based on incomplete data and incomplete investigations. In other words, like the Starr Report, Cox has drafted a report full of innuendo and half-truth.

Now, however, the Chinese will be forced to enter the arms race, won't they? Has Christopher Cox, in fact, been pivotal in escalating problems between China and the United States?

You bet.

In fact, the only suspect in the spy case - the "inscrutable" Mr. Lee -- has not been indicted for anything and is wandering around -- unemployed -- in the Western desert.

Certainly he -- innocent or guilty -- is the fall guy, one of many in this plot.

Get this; One Cox aide actually said his boss was determined to release a "bipartisan report that would not get lost amid charges of political witch hunting," according to the RNC propaganda machine.

Well, if that's true, why did Cox ape Ken Starr and make television pictures available showing boxes of "evidence" similar to those ten Black Vans carrying the Starr report to adulterer Henry Hyde?

Cox and his cronies are making a lot of the so-called "fact" that his "Report" is bi-partisan.

Of course, the reason it is is because it points no finger at the Clinton Administration save a raft of "he said, she said" garbage that Cox will rely on to frighten the America people into thinking that China is preparing to invade, with Clinton's help.

The truth of the matter is that this entire story is yet another scam perpetrated on the voters by Republicans fearful that their credibility is so poor they must do something to prove they are capable.

This latest fiasco is merely an attempt to create a semantic differential between the Republican Party and the White House, the titular head of the Democratic Party.

And what is that difference they hope to convince you of?

Republicans love our country. They are patriots. Democrats, however, are eager to sell us out to the Chinese, the "Yellow Peril."

Of course, Americans are not that stupid. The White House has been silent on this matter for one reason only: they are letting the moronic GOP hang itself yet again.

It's just that simple.

Oh, really, Porter?

Congressman Goss, allow me to introduce Lucianne Goldberg....