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Espionage at Los Alamos went on for 5 years on Clinton's watch. He whitewashed the entire scandal for 4 more years after it was uncovered, never charged Lee, and in the meantime relaxed restrictions on some highly sensitive technologies to China.

He was responsible for providing China with advanced US missile tech through Loral, China gained our satellite encryption technology from a failed 1996 launch of a Loral sat (by removing the encryption chips from the debris). He approved the sale of supercomputers capable of modeling advanced nuclear weapons. He approved advanced machinery sales (Cincinatti 5-axis stretch presses) to China, which were diverted to the J-11 production line (against the end user license). He allowed them to acquire our single crystal metallurgy for turbine blades- critical technology for high performance jet engines.

And as Snipe mentioned, the KH-31 deal with Russia- what a disaster that was. We had a perfectly good US-made missile for the SSST, the Talos/Sea Snake- one that actually worked as advertised. Clinton decided to buy KH-31's from Russia instead of using the US made missile, and it was such a poor performer that we had to modify an F-4 into a launch drone just to run the tests.

Clinton decided to send engineers from Boeing and McDonnell Douglas to Russia to redesign the KH-31 so it could meet the Navy's requirements. The spec called for a target that could go 50nm on the surface, and the best it could do was 16nm. That little transfer of technology allowed Russia to develop the Sunburn into the missile it is today.

I could go on, but I'm not going to bother. Whether you want to talk about gutting the US military and intelligence departments, or giving away sensitive technology, Clinton was a disaster for US defense.

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