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Profiles In Hypocrisy.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)(Editorial)
Politics: Democrats who once objected to profiling at America's airports now support profiling at America's ports. And where was Hillary Clinton when her husband wanted to let China run the port of Long Beach?
In a weekend appearance, Sen. Clinton said: "You know, we have the Chinese running the Panama Canal. We have other government-controlled entities controlling our ports."
Then, according to the New York Observer, she added: "Well, just because it's been happening doesn't mean we should let it continue."
There's no record of either Hillary or Bill Clinton objecting when President Jimmy Carter signed over control of the Panama Canal Zone to Panama in 1977. Or when control was finally handed over in 1999, when the Clintons occupied the White House.
The senator also fails to mention that it was President Clinton who approved the deal that let a Chinese company, Hutchinson Whampoa, run the Canal and ports at either end.
When security concerns arose then, President Clinton insisted Chinese ownership posed no threat to canal operations. Hutchinson, he explained, was "bending over backwards to make sure that they run it in a competent and fair manner."
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Sammon, Bill December 2, 1999 700+ words
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