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Science Czar Breaking Law, Providing Space Tech To China
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 president 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 law, in Section 1340 of the Fiscal Year 2011 Continuing Resolution prevents NASA and OSTP from using federal funds 'to develop, design, plan, promulgate, implement or execute a bilateral policy, program, order, or contract of any kind to participate, collaborate, or coordinate bilaterally in any way with China or any Chinese-owned company. But Dr. John Holdren, head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), had spent 21 days in China on three separate trips in one year -- more than any other country. Very little information about these cooperative agreements with China were being provided to Congress. 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. He has also advocated forced abortion and mass sterilization (with 'infertility drugs introduced into food or water' ('as long as it doesn't harm livestock')) to reduce the world's population, as well as forced sterilization of undesirables, government taking the babies from single and teen mothers to give away for adoption to couples, and government dictating the number of children permitted to particular families. He's an elite, remember, so he's allowed to say nonsense like this. Betcha Herman Cain couldn't get away with it... The Government Accountability Office to investigate, and that office determined the "plain meaning of Section 1340 is clear. OSTP may not use its appropriations to participate, collaborate or coordinate bilaterally in any way with China or any Chinese-owned companies." Further, the GAO said, "As a consequence of using its appropriations in violation of Section 1340, OSTP violated the Antideficiency Act. Accordingly, OSTP should report the violation as required by the act." Attorney General Holdren has released a prepared statement saying that, "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." Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-11-06 |
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