Core charge: President Bill Clinton, already enmeshed in ethical scandals and notorious associations, signed Section 704 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996—a 62-word clause that stripped every parent, school board, city council, and state legislature of the right to invoke health when opposing a cell-tower. By handing medical authority to the FCC’s spectrum-auctioneers, Clinton cemented an industry monopoly and transformed America’s airwaves into an uncontrolled biomedical experiment on children.
Context of Corruption
| 1993-1995 | Jeffrey Epstein logged 17 West-Wing visits during Clinton’s first term. The Daily Beast |
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| 1996 | Lobbyists for AT&T, Motorola, and the Cellular Telecom Industry Association (CTIA) supplied the final language of the 324-page Telecommunications Act. Behind the scenes, Wall Street financiers who bankrolled wireless expansion—many of them Epstein associates—pressed the White House for “regulatory certainty.” |
Clinton’s circle was hemorrhaging credibility (Lewinsky, Whitewater, campaign-finance probes). In that climate, Section 704 passed without a single congressional hearing on non-thermal health risks.
What Section 704 Actually Does
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Pre-empts local and state power to deny or delay a tower “on the basis of the environmental [health] effects of RF emissions.”
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Fast-tracks court injunctions forcing municipalities to approve contested sites.
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Embeds the FCC’s 1996 thermal-only limits—lifted almost verbatim from the ANSI/IEEE C95.1-1982 industry standard—into federal statute. Environmental Health Trust
Translation: an agency whose mission is selling spectrum decides what exposure is “safe,” while towns, counties, and parents are gag-ordered from citing health.
Why Section 704 Violates the Constitution
No other environmental hazard enjoys this immunity. If a chemical plant or lead-paint factory endangered a neighborhood, residents could sue. RF radiation? Forbidden topic.
The Science Clinton Ignored
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Navy “Glaser” Report (1971) catalogued 2,300+ studies on microwave-induced neurological, reproductive, and immune effects. Zory Glaser
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Air Force Compendium (1984) warned of systemic impacts well below heating thresholds. Electromagnetic Health
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EPA Draft Guidelines (early 1990s) proposed non-thermal limits an order of magnitude stricter—defunded mid-process. Environmental Health Trust
Clinton’s White House buried these warnings by delegating all medical review to the FCC—an agency with zero physicians on staff.
Twenty-Nine Years of Fallout
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Tumors & Blood-Brain Barrier Damage – documented in NTP’s $30 million animal study, then research funding was frozen.
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Male Fertility Collapse – meta-analyses link phone-level RF to DNA-damaged sperm; WHO keeps lowering “normal” counts.
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Neurodevelopmental Disorders – oxidative-stress pathways triggered by RF overlap those implicated in ADHD and autism.
All under an exposure limit unchanged since the pager era.
The Moral Comparison
When the state knows an exposure can harm children yet sells that exposure to corporations—and silences parents who protest—the ethical line between trafficking a child’s body and trafficking a child’s health disappears. Profit still flows; the child still pays.
Demands for Redress
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Congressional Investigation of the 1996 Act’s drafting, the lobby money behind it, and the EPA defunding that followed.
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Immediate repeal or amendment of Section 704 to restore First- and Tenth-Amendment protections.
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Transfer RF-health jurisdiction to the EPA (or HHS) staffed with medical scientists.
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Mandate Li-Fi/Fiber indoors + Space-based broadband outdoors—the Clean Ether Act.
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Ongoing RF research under Public Law 90-602 with child-specific exposure limits updated every five years.
Closing Charge
Bill Clinton’s signature on Section 704 wasn’t a policy error; it was a deliberate abdication of constitutional duty under the sway of scandal-ridden donors and a profit-hungry wireless cartel. Every administration that has left this statute untouched has compounded that betrayal. The remedy is not technical tinkering—it is political courage to restore the rights Clinton erased and to detoxify the air our children breathe 24/7.
No more auctioning childhood to the highest bidder. Repeal Section 704, reclaim the spectrum, and put public health where it belongs—above corporate profit.