Profile in Courage: Mike Maloof Speaks Truth to Power about Clinton’s Dangerous Tech Transfers to China
Will His ‘Diary’ Be Allowed to Inform the Public
Debate?
(Washington, D.C.): Thanks to the Wall Street Journal, a man who has long
labored behind the
scenes on behalf of robust U.S. security policies in general and effective technology controls in
particular has been given a small measure of the visibility and credit due him. In a profile
published on 27 November, the Journal credited Michael Maloof,
a senior career civil servant in
the Pentagon’s Defense Technology Security Administration (DTSA)
Cold War’s end, [that] have been adopted by many Members
of Congress and are driving the debate” over sensitive high-technology exports to Communist
China.
As a public service, the Center for Security Policy is circulating the
entirety since the Friday after Thanksgiving is not the optimum day for mass readership of a
business-oriented publication like the Journal. Particularly noteworthy are its
references to a
“diary” the DTSA official has kept since early in 1998 to record “his dealings with
Pentagon superiors.”
According to the newspaper, copies of the Maloof diary are in the hands of
Justice Department
and Customs Service investigators, as well as the Wall Street Journal. It would
appear that it
must also have been made available to the select committee chaired by Rep. Chris
Cox (R-CA)
charged with examining allegations that the Clinton Administration abetted Chinese ballistic
missile systems aimed at the United States by authorizing the transfer of know-how and
technology that would improve their reliability and accuracy.
testify before the Cox committee last August.
The question is: Will the American people be allowed to review the
contents of Mr.
Maloof’s journal, as well? If so, they are likely to have a shocking insight into the extent
to
which the Clinton team has abdicated its responsibility to provide for the common defense by
repeatedly disregarding evidence that potential adversaries, like the Chinese, were seeking to
acquire dual-use technologies for weapons-related purposes.
about the lengths to which the Administration has gone to eviscerate or otherwise neutralize the
U.S., bilateral and multilateral mechanisms it inherited for the control of such technology.
Finally, they may glean a sense of the ways in which conscientious, patriotic Americans like Mike
Maloof have been abused and their careers impeded.
The Bottom Line
The Nation owes an enormous debt of gratitude to Mike Maloof — and many
men and women
like him, both in and out of uniform — whose commitment to their country and its vital interests is
so great as to permit them to stand their ground in the face of such hostility to them and their
beliefs from their own government. The least that can be done for them is for
Congress to ensure
that they are not punished for their service and their willingness to speak truth to
power.
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1. The Clinton Administration recently renamed DTSA the
Technology Security Directorate as
part of its effort to “reorganize” the agency so as to reduce its effectiveness, visibility and clout.
See Center Decision Brief entitled Broadening The Lens: Peter
Leitner’s Revelations On ’60
Minutes,’ Capitol Hill Indict Clinton’s Technology Insecurity (
2. See Early Returns On ‘China Gate’
(No. 98-D 90, 26 May 1998); and
Clinton Legacy
Watch #21: Efforts To Help Chinese Missile Programs Reels Of Corruption, Betrayal Of U.S.
Interests (No. 98-D 61, 6 April 1998).
3. This would hardly be the only instance in which the Administration
has ignored inconvenient
information. See Casey Institute Perspective entitled At Last,
Clinton-Gore Publicly Address
Year 2000 Bug — But Continue To Lowball Problem, Duck Responsibility For It
(No. 98 C
132, 15 July 1998).
4. See A Policy Indictment: Sen Cochran’s
Subcommittee Documents Clinton
Incompetence/Malfeasance On Proliferation (No. 98-D
4, 12 January 1998); and What’s Good
For Silicon Valley Is Not Good For America: Some Supercomputers Sales Imperil U.S.
Security (No. 97-D 102, 21 July 1997).
5. See Broadening The Lens: Peter Leitner’s
Revelations On ’60 Minutes,’ Capitol Hill Indict
Clinton’s Technology Insecurity (No. 98-D 101, 6
June 1998); and Profile In Courage: Peter Leitner
Blows The Whistle On Clinton’s Dangerous Export Decontrol Policies (
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