Selling Out America

About the Book

"Many of the facts Ken first reported were later confirmed to me and my colleagues in classified briefings."

- from the Preface by U.S. Representative Christopher Cox (R-Calif.)

Selling Out America traces the whole story of Bill Clinton’s corrupt relationship to Communist China as president, from the reporter who broke these stories and ultimately ran for the United States Senate to bring greater awareness to the dangers facing America.

"I have spent much of the past six years investigating the Clinton administration's sell-off of our military technology to Communist China. During this time, I learned more about corruption than I ever would have believed possible.

"But the corruption was not limited to the White House, or even to a single political party: it spread throughout the upper echelons of American society, reaching Members of Congress, intelligence community analysts, top business leaders, and the media.

"When a Congressional commission uncovered evidence that China had gained access to U.S. nuclear secrets through espionage, the Washington Post assigned a journalist to cover the story whose wife was a Clinton administration political appointee.

"China's nuclear espionage and the way it was misreported by the main media is part of a deeper and ultimately more dangerous trend: China's concerted efforts through corruption, trade, and investment to entwine U.S. interests so thoroughly with those of the PRC that no future President will dare to contain China's military might, because of the unacceptable military and economic costs to America. The emergence of Communist China as a world power, armed with U.S. help, will be President Clinton's ultimate legacy. How to counter it will be one of the greatest challenges facing his successor."

Selling Out America shows what we knew of Clinton's secret plans to arm communist China, when we knew it, and how little of this knowledge ever leaked out into the mainstream.

- Kenneth R. Timmerman

Cover photo by Bobby Yip (Reuters). Montage by Julian Timmerman.

About the Author

Kenneth R. Timmerman is a former Congressional aide and investigative reporter, who has published three books on the arms trade and intelligence issues. For the past six years, he has covered the sell-off of U.S. high technology to communist China for the American Spectator. In Congressional testimony in July 1999, he revealed the existence of an ICBM program in Iran known as the "Kosar," helping to spark legislation that imposed sanctions on Russia for transferring missile technology to Iran. During the 1980s, he covered wars in Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq, and worked for over a decade as a correspondent for top defense publications. In November 1999, he declared his candidacy for the United States Senate in Maryland and was endorsed by prominent members of President Reagan's national security team. www.timmerman2000.com “I have followed for some time your excellent reporting on the Mid-East, especially Iran. You consistently provide insights and facts nowhere else available to the public. Your professionalism and persistence make a great contribution to our understanding, to the public debate, and ultimately to our national security.” - R. James Woolsey, Director of Central Intelligence (1993-1995) "Kenneth Timmerman has been tireless in unearthing the facts about the diversion of technology from legitimate commercial purposes to the dangerous military programs of states and organizations hostile to the United States and its allies. For this effort, reflected in a prolific output of articles, testimony, memoranda, and the like, he deserves the gratitude of all of us." - Richard Perle, Assistant Secretary of Defense (1981-1987)