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“WILL CHINESE ESPIONAGE SCANDAL BE DISMISSED?” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Energy was published in the House of Representatives section on pages H3512 on May 25, 1999.
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WILL CHINESE ESPIONAGE SCANDAL BE DISMISSED?
(Mr. SCHAFFER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. SCHAFFER. Mr. Speaker, on March 19th of this year, the President stated, in response to a question, ``To the best of my knowledge, no one has said anything to me about any espionage which occurred by the Chinese against the labs, during my presidency.''
Sorry, to have to ask this, but is that true? Chinese espionage was discovered in 1995.
Was the President not briefed on this in 1995?
Did no one tell him in 1996?
Was the President not told about this in 1997?
During all of 1998, did no one brief the President about these extremely grave matters?
Did the President not read the November 1998 report on Chinese espionage at the Energy Department labs?
Did the President not see the Cox report delivered to him in January of this year?
Did he forget that, in fact, he had been briefed about the most serious espionage case since the Rosenbergs many, many times?
Why the denial?
Will the other side simply dismiss this scandal too, saying, ``Hey, everybody lies about national security''?
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