Clintonian Fool: David Tarbell

David Tarbell, director of the Defense Technology Security Administration under Clinton-Gore, ordered the mass shredding of Pentagon records that could have documented some of the most serious Chinagate allegations against the Clinton-Gore administration.

Clinton Hold-over Orders Secret Documents Destroyed

When the DTSA moved its offices, Tarbell, a Clinton holdover at the Pentagon, told subordinates that the new facility couldn't accommodate the documents.

These documents included top secret intelligence reports on foreign weapons programs and front companies, and memoranda documenting Pentagon decisions to allow U.S. companies to sell advanced technology directly to Russian and Chinese military facilities.

Much of the secret material was so highly restricted that documents had to be signed out when viewed. At Tarbell's direction, even those access logs have been destroyed, erasing any paper trail that might show who handled the super-sensitive records.

The entire record of what happened over the past eight years is gone.

"Dave Tarbell bears personal responsibility for giving the Chinese military everything they need to fight the next war. He has been highly successful -- in giving away our military technology." --Stephen D. Bryen, a DOD official under Reagan/Bush.

Bryen created DTSA in 1985 as part of President Reagan's effort to deny the Soviet Union access to advanced Western military technology. He has been a vocal critic of the Clinton administration's decontrol of sensitive technology, testifying before Congress repeatedly on the importance of maintaining controls on U.S. military exports to slow China's military modernization.

"Tarbell endorsed the Clinton administration plans to decontrol supercomputers, which have all gone into the Chinese nuclear-weapons and missile programs. He backed the release of hot-section technology, which has enabled the Chinese military to build new combat jet engines. He promoted the decontrol of military-grade Global Positioning System technologies, which the Chinese are now using to guide their nuclear missiles. He ought to be fired and find another job."

He damn well ought to go to prison.