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Can Kerry Be Trusted With Our National Security?

By Anthony Sacco

Recently, pro-abortion presidential candidate John Kerry attempted to play off his Regular Army service against President Bush’s National Guard service, hoping that his military record would convince voters he can be trusted with our national security.

But the following information indicates that he’s not worthy of that trust.

My recent novel, The China Connection, is based on actual events, namely, illegal campaign contributions by the Chinese government and two American high-tech corporations.  

Real-life personages Liu Chao-ying and Johnny Chung figure prominently in the novel, under different names.

You’ll recall that they, along with John Huang, acted as conduits for Chinese military money funneled to the Democratic National Committee, the Clinton-Gore Re-election Committee and several senators known to favor Chinese interests.

While researching, I learned that in 1996 John Kerry met with Liu Chao-ying and Johnny Chung.  Liu is the daughter of Liu Haquing, once vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission, Congress of the Communist Party, and at that time, head of China’s military satellite program.

Chao-ying was vice-president of China Aerospace Technologies, a subsidiary of state-owned China Aerospace Group, which, together with China Great Wall Industry Corporation, operated China’s civilian space program.

Covertly, she was a lieutenant colonel in the Intelligence Section, Army of the People’s Republic.  In other words, a Chinese spy.

During their meeting, in Mr. Kerry’s office, Chao-ying and Chung made it clear that they wanted his assistance in getting her company listed on the U.S. Stock Exchange.

Kerry directed an aide to contact the SEC.  Within days they met with senior SEC officials.

A few weeks afterward, to say thanks, Chung hosted a fundraiser in Beverly Hills, raking in $10,000 for Kerry’s re-election campaign.

Soon after, the FBI began its investigation into illegal campaign contributions from foreign sources.  

Bank records subpoenaed from Chao-ying and Chung showed that a chunk of Kerry’s campaign stash came from $300,000 in overseas wire transfers sent to Chung by Ji Shengde, China’s Military Intelligence Chief.

These contributions were routed through a Hong Kong account controlled by Chao-ying.  Her company later benefited from waivers granted by the Commerce Department at the request of the Clinton Administration, to aerospace company Loral Space & Communications, which utilized China’s space program to launch its satellites.

As Chao-ying and Chung labored to add funds to sympathetic elites within the Democratic Party, Loral illegally passed top-secret missile and guidance system technology to China Aerospace Corporation, Liu’s parent firm in Beijing.  

According to the bipartisan Cox Commission, that information was used to perfect China’s intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Before 1990, Chinese missiles, lacking range and accuracy, could only reach Alaska and western Washington State.  But by the end of that decade, thanks in part to Senator Kerry, Chinese ICBMs could strike the entire continental U.S.

Testifying in Congressional hearings later, Chung stated that before Chao-ying wired him the cash to make those contributions, China’s intelligence chief, Ji Shengde, told him, “We like your president.  We want to see him re-elected.”

Apparently, Beijing felt the same way about John Kerry.

No wonder.  Mr. Kerry, a post-modernist man for whom truth does not exist, or if it does, it’s whatever he wants it to be at any given moment, has voted against almost every military appropriations bill since his arrival in the Senate, from funding the B-1 bomber to a missile defense shield for America and its allies.

He has been on the wrong side of virtually every major security issue of his time, favoring the nuclear freeze movement in the ‘80s that would have stalled the Cold War in place with a Soviet advantage, and voting to cut appropriations for the CIA during Clinton’s years in office, for which we paid dearly with American lives on 9/11.

The assistance given to Liu Chao-ying, a foreign spy, the receipt of campaign contributions from a foreign government, which is a violation of U.S. campaign financing law, and the positions he has taken regarding national defense, radical leftist to say the least, indicate John Kerry, a moral relativist, cannot be trusted with America’s national security.

He lacks the temperament, judgment and instincts so necessary in one who would be commander-in-chief of America’s armed forces.