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Beijing appears to have acquired U.S. nuclear secrets, and yet Washington has been unable to find any spies - and the government wants to know why. A Justice Department internal report, leaked to the media this week, slams the FBI both for errors in its investigation of Los Alamos nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee and for focusing too narrowly on Lee to the exclusion of other potential suspects. Despite more than a year of investigation, Lee remains the only suspect indicted, and he's been charged only with mishandling classified information by downloading classified files onto his own computer rather than...
Although it criticizes the DOJ for failing to approve an FBI request to place Lee under electronic surveillance, the internal report faults the FBI for not initially searching the computer at Lee's office - for which no warrant was required - onto which he had downloaded reams of classified computer code. Lee has been unable to account for a number of tapes of downloaded code, and the DOJ report suggests that the slowness of the initial investigation may have given him time to dispose of these if, indeed, that had been his intention. Charging Lee late last year was interpreted...
...report, however, deals with investigating and prosecuting espionage violations after the fact. The House Committee on Intelligence, meanwhile, has slammed the Clinton administration for allegedly weakening the nation's intelligence services through lack of funding. In a report that cites such failures as Washington's inability to foresee India's nuclear tests and the inadvertent bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade during the Kosovo war, the committee maintains that lack of funding and leadership from the White House has left the nation's human and electronic intelligence-gathering systems in a poor state of preparedness and put the nation...
Although the steering committee's site selection subcommittee concurred with the architectural report's findings, the committee as a whole did not even vote on that recommendation in a meeting Monday at the Maynard School...
...report describes the initial bewilderment of law enforcement on the scene - too many agencies, too many conflicting 911 reports, not enough coordination. For a while, authorities believed there was a third shooter on the roof; he turned out to be an air conditioner repairman. As for whether police were cowardly, or negligent, or poorly trained, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department has made enough p.r. blunders to know that conclusions of that kind are best left to the courts, and with 15 lawsuits pending, the truth will have ample opportunity to come out. Connie Michalik, whose son was wounded...