FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
May 3, 1999
BUCHANAN ACCUSES ADMINISTRATION OF "NEAR-CRIMINAL INCOMPETENCE"
SEATTLE, WA.-- Presidential candidate Patrick J. Buchanan today accused
President Clinton's national security team of "near-criminal incompetence
in its handling of the atomic secrets of the United States."
Citing a May 2 New York Times story, in which a Chinese spy, who had
looted U.S. atomic secrets for Beijing, was permitted to stay on his job
for months at Los Alamos, and erase evidence of wholesale treason from his
computer, Mr. Buchanan said: "No national security team in U.S. history
has proven itself so diffident and incompetent a steward of the national
security of the United States. History will one day hold William
Jefferson Clinton and his regime morally accountable for allowing spies
and traitors to systematically loot the nuclear secrets of the United
States, and put America, once again, in mortal peril from atomic
missiles."
"While the Clinton campaign was pocketing dirty cash from Beijing, and the
White House was declaring the Communist China to be America's 'strategic
partner,' Beijing was looting every nuclear secret in Mr. Clinton's
custody, and targeting its nuclear weapons on U.S. cities," Mr. Buchanan
said. "The continuation in office of Mr. Clinton's national security team
has now become a grave national security risk."
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