Perry's Best Friends - The Chinese?

[AnnieBW]

Anyone who knows technology should be VERY concerned about this. Huawei is run by a former Chinese intelligence person.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/perry-welcomed-chinese-firm-despite-security-concern/2011/08/10/gIQAAu80EJ_story.html?hpid=z1

It was the kind of scene that Texas Gov. Rick Perry will point to often as he rolls out his presidential campaign: a ribbon-cutting ceremony just outside Dallas, launching a corporate headquarters, with hundreds of new jobs, and validating what he calls his “Texas miracle” of growth.

After a months-long courtship that included a trip to China, where he dined with the company’s chief executive, Perry announced that telecommunications firm Huawei Technologies would base its U.S. operations in Plano. In a video of that October 2010 event — now playing on YouTube, courtesy of the governor’s office — Perry praised the company’s “really strong worldwide reputation” and its chairman, Ren Zhengfei, whose straight talk he said reminded him fondly of West Texans.

While Perry focused on Huawei’s ability to create jobs in a sluggish economy, national security experts in both the George W. Bush and Obama administrations had concluded that the global telecom giant poses a potential cyber-security risk to the U.S. military and businesses. Three times since 2008, a U.S. government security panel has blocked Huawei from acquiring or partnering with U.S. companies because of concerns that secrets could be leaked to China’s government or military.

[texastoast]

1. Your point?

U.S. security? Darlin', that just doesn't make a good goddam to Rick if it means giving up a dollar in his own pocket. He would sell, no TAKE, his mother's farm to give to a fern corporation.

[Booster]

2. Dangerous devices made by the Chinese have probably been

put in a whole lot of iPods, cell phones, microwaves, you name it. I would probably be more willing to trust something made by the Chinese in Plano, Texas, rather in Hong Kong. Just sayin'. Lord know I don't want this dangerous power drunk crazy Texan to become President, but we got to come up with something better than this charge.