‘Following law not voluntary for administration officials’
Bob Unruh
WorldNetDaily
11/5/2011
A congressman says he’s alarmed that President Obama’s science “czar,” John Holdren, apparently has been collaborating with the Chinese even though Congress specifically prohibited that activity in a bill signed into law by his boss, Obama.
The accusations from U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf. R-Va., came this week in a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
The committee was listening to testimony about China’s espionage in the United States and “the violation of the law by the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.”
Wolf noted he opposed the idea that the U.S. should work with China in any way regarding that nation’s space program.
“The Chinese space program is being led by the People’s Liberation Army, and to state the obvious, the PLA is not our friend as evidenced by their recent military posture and aggressive espionage against U.S. agencies and firms,” Wolf said.
His concern was raised because NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden had scheduled a trip to China to talk about cooperation between NASA and the Chinese army, and Holdren made multiple trips to China for weeks of meetings.
Holdren’s viewpoints have been far afield from traditional American perspectives, with his suggestion that America should surrender to a “planetary regime” and his petitioning for a deliberate reduction in the stocks of U.S. weapons-grade plutonium.
WND first broke the story that Holdren also visited the Soviet Union during the Cold War as vice chairman of a group whose founder was accused of providing vital nuclear information that helped the Soviets build an atom bomb…
…In a published statement prepared for the meeting, Holdren said he knew about the ban and wouldn’t follow it.
“OSTP’s activities in bilateral diplomacy with China on … issues fall under the president’s exclusive constitutional authority to conduct foreign diplomacy and thus cannot be precluded by Section 1340(a). In reliance on this advice, OSTP continued to engage in these activities,” the statement said….
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