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Weldon Moves to Strengthen
U.S. Export Control Policies
In Wake of Cox Report, Failure of Clinton-Gore Administration to Provide Adequate Controls on Technology, Weldon Offers Amendments to Strengthen Oversight Role of Department of Defense

 

The Clinton-Gore Administration has virtually ignored China's repeated transfer of weapons-related technology to countries such as Iran and Pakistan in violation of international arms control treaty's and regimes.  Of the twenty publicly known violations -- documented only from open, non-classified sources -- the Clinton Gore Administration imposed sanctions only twice.  And it waived one of those two sanctions after only a little over a year. 

What's the point of having arms control agreements if we never enforce them?  Lack of enforcement of arms control agreements, the cornerstone of the Administration's foreign policy, sends the wrong message to would-be proliferators.  It also makes these agreements little more than scraps of paper.

Given its past proliferation record, its a safe bet that sensitive and classified American technology that China obtained from the United States -- as detailed in the Cox report -- will makes its way to these and other nations.  Amazingly, the Clinton-Gore Administration is still telling the American people that little or no damage has been done to our national lsecurity during their watch.  But you can be the judge of that.