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Civil liberties have always occupied a sacred place in our nation's history. At the same time, they have also been vulnerable to the claims of national security. The recent case of Taiwanese-American nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee is an example of the terrible consequences of the government's zeal for security gone awry...
...This election campaign is going to end. But how do we get through the intervening weeks? Buck up! We've come this far. I admit I think wistfully from time to time about Alan Keyes. Where is he now that we need him? Where is his mosh pit? With Wen Ho Lee back home, can't we hear again from Keyes about how racial profiling is essential to law enforcement...
...whether federal agents cut corners on all their cases or just the ones involving Chinese Americans and national security. "Most federal cases are well founded and ethically prosecuted," says John Barrett, a former U.S. prosecutor who teaches law at St. John's University in New York City. "But Wen Ho Lee now stands in the place of every defendant who claims to be wrongly charged or wrongly overcharged. That's a good climate for a defense attorney and an unfortunate one for the country...
...Wen Ho Lee saga began in 1995, when a walk-in source gave the CIA a document from the People's Republic of China that claimed Chinese weapons designers had obtained specific and highly classified details of an American nuclear warhead known as the W-88. Not everyone in the intelligence community was convinced the document was genuine. The DOE and the FBI, which handles spy catching, quickly learned that several agencies and some defense contractors had information about the W-88, and concluded that the leak had probably occurred at the weapons lab at Los Alamos, where most...
...That would turn out to be the high-water mark of the government's three-year pursuit of Wen Ho Lee. Before Christmas, prosecutors asked Federal Judge James Parker to deny Lee bail and hold him in solitary confinement before trial, lest he somehow communicate to allies or foreign governments how to find the missing tapes or destroy evidence. The government based its plea on testimony from the FBI's chief investigator in the case, Robert Messemer, who said Lee had engaged in a pattern of deceit, misled the government about his contacts with Chinese officials and written letters seeking...