NewYorkDragons80
01-20-2002, 03:58 PM
After 8 years of selling our secrets to the Chinese, the tables have turned.
CBS) BEIJING, Jan. 19, 2002
The discovery of spying devices embedded in Chinese President Jiang Zemin's U.S.-made jetliner has not derailed President Bush's planned trip to China next month, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday.
Powell, asked to comment on reports that some 27 listening devices were discovered last autumn on the Boeing 767, said he has not had discussions with Chinese counterparts and declined further comment on the "so-called matter."
"We simply don't comment on these sorts of matters. In my discussions with Chinese leaders, this has never been raised," Powell said on "Fox News Sunday."
"So we're looking forward to that trip, and I don't expect anything to derail that trip," he said, referring to next month's planned summit between Bush and Jiang in Beijing.
The Washington Post Saturday reported that listening devices, apparently embedded while the plane was being refitted in the United States, were found in the presidential bathroom and the headboard of the presidential bed, among other places.
The Washington Post report said Chinese officials blamed U.S. intelligence agencies for the bugs. It said the incident would be raised during U.S. President George W. Bush's Feb. 21 summit with Jiang in Beijing.
Separately, London's Financial Times reported the tiny, satellite-operated devices were detected by Chinese officials after the plane emitted a strange static whine during test flights in China in September, shortly after it was delivered.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" program, said he had no knowledge of spying devices on the Chinese plane.
Asked if he thought the controversy would cause problems for U.S.-China relations, Rumsfeld replied: "I doubt it. We have two big countries and lots of interests in common and I suspect that life goes on."
U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, said he had no information on the incident, but said it was "foolish" if intelligence agents indeed embedded permanent listening devices on the airplane.
"We run into trouble when we do that and it seems to me that it is not wise for us to do that unless they are an enemy, now that's different. Then you take certain risks you might otherwise (not) take," he said on CBS's Face the Nation.
But U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson, a Tennessee Republican, took a more calculated view of the apparently foiled spy attempt, advocating a "cost-benefit analysis on all of these things."
"We've got to do some kind of aggressive things, and, frankly, our intelligence community I think has not suffered from being overly aggressive the last several years, just the contrary," he said.
"THOSE BASTARDS"
-Norman Schwartzkoff
"May God bless us in this trial, comfort us, strengthen our resolve, and make our justice as terrible and certain as His."
-Senator John McCain
"Neitzche is dead"
-God
CBS) BEIJING, Jan. 19, 2002
The discovery of spying devices embedded in Chinese President Jiang Zemin's U.S.-made jetliner has not derailed President Bush's planned trip to China next month, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday.
Powell, asked to comment on reports that some 27 listening devices were discovered last autumn on the Boeing 767, said he has not had discussions with Chinese counterparts and declined further comment on the "so-called matter."
"We simply don't comment on these sorts of matters. In my discussions with Chinese leaders, this has never been raised," Powell said on "Fox News Sunday."
"So we're looking forward to that trip, and I don't expect anything to derail that trip," he said, referring to next month's planned summit between Bush and Jiang in Beijing.
The Washington Post Saturday reported that listening devices, apparently embedded while the plane was being refitted in the United States, were found in the presidential bathroom and the headboard of the presidential bed, among other places.
The Washington Post report said Chinese officials blamed U.S. intelligence agencies for the bugs. It said the incident would be raised during U.S. President George W. Bush's Feb. 21 summit with Jiang in Beijing.
Separately, London's Financial Times reported the tiny, satellite-operated devices were detected by Chinese officials after the plane emitted a strange static whine during test flights in China in September, shortly after it was delivered.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" program, said he had no knowledge of spying devices on the Chinese plane.
Asked if he thought the controversy would cause problems for U.S.-China relations, Rumsfeld replied: "I doubt it. We have two big countries and lots of interests in common and I suspect that life goes on."
U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, said he had no information on the incident, but said it was "foolish" if intelligence agents indeed embedded permanent listening devices on the airplane.
"We run into trouble when we do that and it seems to me that it is not wise for us to do that unless they are an enemy, now that's different. Then you take certain risks you might otherwise (not) take," he said on CBS's Face the Nation.
But U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson, a Tennessee Republican, took a more calculated view of the apparently foiled spy attempt, advocating a "cost-benefit analysis on all of these things."
"We've got to do some kind of aggressive things, and, frankly, our intelligence community I think has not suffered from being overly aggressive the last several years, just the contrary," he said.
"THOSE BASTARDS"
-Norman Schwartzkoff
"May God bless us in this trial, comfort us, strengthen our resolve, and make our justice as terrible and certain as His."
-Senator John McCain
"Neitzche is dead"
-God