Joe Pitts: “our national security is serious business. The American people have a right to know that we are safeguarding our defense…”

“our national security is serious business. The American people have a right to know that we are safeguarding our defense secrets well. But the Clinton-Gore administration has botched the job. A suspected spy was allowed access to critical secrets in Los Alamos for 17 months after FBI Director Freeh advised the administration he should be removed from classified areas. Between November of 1997 and November of 1998, 191 supercomputers were shipped to Communist China. Only one was checked by the administration to make sure it was not being used for weapons development. In 1996, the Loral Corporation was found by the Department of Defense to have damaged our national security by sending critical missile technologies to the Chinese, but the administration went ahead and had them keep launching missiles in China, ignoring DOD's recommendations. I might add, the CEO of this company gives $1 million a year to the Democratic National Committee. In June we found out that hard drives containing secret nuclear data were missing for a month before even anyone noticed. Mr. Speaker, we have a security problem in this administration. It needs to be addressed immediately.”