From: popec@freeside.com (PopeC)
Newsgroups: tx.politics
Subject: Re: Chinascam
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 00:38:32 CDT
Organization: Rivendell BBS / Hou, TX. / +1 713 941 2236

susan@korova.uucp (Susan) writes:

> > Well in this case he was careful enough to try to doublecheck this story.
> > And it brought him to the attention of the government.
> > And they confirmed the reports to him, as his column relates.  I don't 
> > think he's lying.  And his report did galvanize a bipartisna group of 
> > Senators to demand a Special Prosecuter to investigate and prosecute.
> > They seem to feel there were some laws broken here.
> > I have seen nothing to suggest in this particualr case that Anderson is 
> > wrong or lying.  And in this case, the call for a Special Prosecutor is 
> > not a democratic thing entirely. 
>   
> How do you know that Jack Anderson did any fact checking on this?  How do 
> you know that he wasn't just reprinting some odd letter sent to him or 
> letting an over-eager intern write a badly researched story?
>   
> And Senators will do anything if they thing they are being watched.
>   
> Of course, if you tell me how you happen to know -- then I have to figure 
> out if you are in a position to know....
> 
> 
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Like I said, Once he tried to follow up on the original story, he was 
visited by U.S. Gov. officials.  It is THIS THAT CAUSED some senators to 
go ballistic.  Cause apparently Anderson was able to name names.  And of 
course the original CIA analyst who started this is now none to the 
Senators who are disturbed about this.   And like i said, enough found 
this good enough to ask for Special Prosecutor to follow up.

Could be, could be, could be!  What?  Could be?  Well, you could write 
Jesse Helms who is Senior Republican Senator on the Senate Foreign 
relations Committee and one senator that was pissed when he found out 
about this.  I am sure he would be delighted to have his staff send you a 
copy of the basic facts of the case as presented to the Justice 
Department when they asked for a special prosecuter.

Could be is an open ended invitation to futile naysaying, and 
speculation.  I trust the press reports i saw about this to get the very 
basics right. And for confirmation, a letter would probably get that.  Or 
checking the Congressional record at the Library.

I have no reason to believe Anderson lied when he says he was leaned on 
by the feds to not print the allegations.  Which is indeed different than 
whether there were anything to the allegations.  I also have no reason to 
suspect that Anderson bald faced lied when he says they admitted that the 
allegations were in fact true.  That the U.S. Government knew China was 
supplying Weapons of mass desrtruction technology to Iran.
  You got anything other than suspicians here? What's yer prob?
  Are you intimating that Anderson lies?  If the facts about China were 
wrong, why did they tell him that these facts were true?  Why would 
Anderson lie about something like that?  Apparently this was investigated 
by a Senate investigative committee and Anderson is not a liar.  Wrong?
They admitted to Anderson that Iran was recieving this technology, so if 
Anderson was wrong he was misled in a very strange way by our own 
government.  Think about it a little.  Now you want to start again with 
the could bes?  Could a been he's right too you know!


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