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...convicted, of course, but not of espionage - in fact, he was never even charged with espionage, and the 59-count indictment for allegedly downloading the "crown jewels" of U.S. nuclear secrets with the intention to share these with a foreign power was reduced, in the plea agreement, to single felony count of mishandling classified information. Still, his case is unlikely to get much attention this election season, and not only because President Clinton has preemptively joined the ranks of government critics...
...painted a damning picture of Lee. The views of the guardians of the nation's security obviously carry great authority when reported in publications of record, creating the impression that it was a "known" fact in the corridors of power that the Los Alamos scientist had handed over the crown jewels of U.S. nuclear secrets to China - treachery on a scale comparable to that of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, they said - even if the sources of this information were also warning that the government might not be able to make the espionage charges stick...
...that the government has surrendered almost all its case against Lee, having been forced along the way to drop many of its most basic claims - the "crown jewels" claim, for example, looks more than a little alarmist when viewed in the light of the fact that, as Lee's attorneys pointed out, the data he downloaded was classified "restricted" rather than "secret" - it's worth examining how the media deals with off-the-record information from highly placed sources who demand to remain anonymous...
Then her commitments to family will doubtless increase, since she plans to add a little swashbuckler after the Sydney Games. Confidants suggest that she and her husband may try to conceive an "Olympic baby" before leaving Australia. She is adamant, however, about adding a missing European championship crown to her collection of titles. She is also eager to front the French team that will be host to the world championship competition in 2001--a full fencing agenda that should leave Flessel-Colovic's fans plenty of time to savor her personality and watch la Guepe continue to sting...
...cause for disquiet at the spectacle of the nation's leading law enforcement agency, in the eye of a political firestorm over China's apparent access to blueprints of some U.S. nuclear warhead designs, appearing to rush a man into court for allegedly helping a foreign power steal the "crown jewels" of the nation's nuclear secrets, only to recant nine months later and concede that the accused was guilty only of something even a former CIA director has admitted doing - mishandling classified misinformation. So while the feds may have finished with Wen Ho Lee, it's unlikely that...