Customer Reviews

The Cox Report : The Unanimous and Bipartisan Report of the House Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

This is a abridged version dumbed down for what the editor calls "The General Reader" . Technical details and footnotes are omitted, and a 3 volume report has been edited into 370 some pages. It is good enough for the Readers Digest crowd, but this is NOT a copy of the real declassified Cox Report.

The revelations in The Cox Report are truely frightening, especially so since they are documented by a "unanimous and bipartisan" House Select Committee on U.S. National Security. Caspar Weinberger, in his forward to the report, sums it up as only he can; "...the most serieous breach of national security since Julius and Ethel Rosenberg betrayed atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. For their crime, the Rosenbergs were executed. Let us hope that the crimes uncovered here by this report are paid for by those who committed them, and not by innocent American lives."

The cleavage of opinion in the Congress with regard to the globalization of space commercialization makes this report relevant to the reader. The International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR) specifically relating to space technology and dual-use technologies insights is what makes this book insightful. With the subsequent decline in the American commercial satellite launch business following the Cox Report and the growing isolation of domestic commercial space firms is equally frightening as compared to technology transfer to China. The impact on Americans to do space technology business abroad and forcing foreign nations to develop competive technology is having a negative impact on the United States. The larger problem identified in the Cox Report was the lack of communication and interaction among federal agencies. The book is insightful and worth the read for those interested in the future of ITAR and dual-use space technologies.

After reading the book, I was dissapointed to find too many vague references to espionage activities, presidential censoring, and congressional rewriting of the report. I do understand that the classified version would contain more information, but, it seems that if the censoring was not as drastic as it is, the book would be much more informative.

I have read some of the report online, and what I have read is devastating! The Lewinsky matter is child's play compared to what Clinton's administration has let happen due to utter incompetence regarding foreign policy. The report makes no mention of campaign contributions from the Chinese, but most intelligent people will be able to connect the dots. Liberals will make hay about secrets being stolen during the Reagan and Bush administrations, but the key word here is "stolen." Clinton gave our secrets away!!(A word to liberals: spare all of us your pabulum about Iran-Contra, it is nothing compared to this!)

The book rating is 3 star (neutral) until I am able to read it, in contrast to my 0-1 star rating for the american public.

I have no basis for my opinion, nor do I possess any inherent knowledge on this topic, it's just that I wanted so badly to be the first person to review this book, which by the way hasn't yet been released at this moment, hee hee hee.