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March 20, 2000 | That was the provocative question raised the other day by Bill O'Reilly on his popular Fox News show, "The O'Reilly Factor." Never, perhaps, has such potentially explosive information been so blithely ignored by those who are supposed to track it down. Take the Buddhist Temple affair. How many Americans understand that the organizer of the temple fund-raiser (John Huang), the collector of illegal Chinese money from Buddhist nuns (Maria Hsia) and the man Huang selected to sit at the vice president's left hand during the affair (Hsia was on his right) had one striking feature in common: They are all identified agents of Chinese Communist intelligence services.
David Horowitz David Horowitz's column appears on the News site every other Monday.
The Buddhist Temple affair is one small piece of the biggest, most frightening scandal ever to touch the White House. It has ramifications that go far beyond the corruption of a presidential election -- they directly affect the threat of war currently brewing over Taiwan. This is not the first series of Chinese war threats over Taiwan, nor is it the first time that the Clinton-Gore-China network has been implicated in them. In fact, when China last made war noises, accompanied by missile salvos across the Taiwan Straits, Charlie Trie -- a charter member of the conspiracy -- arrived at the White House with a laundry list of instructions to Clinton on how to deal with the crisis. Trie, a Clinton crony from Arkansas who was convicted of violating U.S. election laws, has been tied to both the Chinese underworld and the Chinese dictatorship by U.S. intelligence agencies. The instructions he delivered to his old friend clearly reflected the views of Beijing. Yet the major American media have kept the public ignorant of the importance of these revelations. Consequently, even to raise them so bluntly in the midst of the media blackout is to risk being marginalized as a conspiracy zealot. That is because the machinations of the participants are being protected by the most massive coverup in American history. More than 100 subpoenaed witnesses have taken the Fifth Amendment or fled the country, often with the connivance and support of the Clinton White House. This is no less than one would expect when the administration itself is orchestrating the damage control. Consider how presidential contender Gore has defended his presence at the illegal Buddhist Temple fund-raiser. First, he claimed he didn't know that the temple event was a political fund-raiser, despite the fact that his staff, the Secret Service, the National Security Council, his "friend and supporter" Hsia and his 1996 campaign's chief fund-raiser, Huang, all knew that it was a political fund-raiser. In fact, speeches at the fund-raiser itself referred to the fact that it was a fund-raiser. And Gore himself sent out an e-mail mentioning a fund-raiser on that date. Yet, when confronted, he still claims he didn't know it was fund-raiser. When it comes to telling the truth about this matter, Gore makes Clinton look like George Washington.
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