-Caveat Lector- http://www.nypostonline.com/news/12129.htm New York Post August 15, 1999 SENATE: FBI AND JUSTICE BOTCHED CHINA-NUKE CASE By DEBORAH ORIN WASHINGTON - The chief suspect in revealing top U.S. nuclear secrets to China, Wen Ho Lee, flunked a lie-detector test last February, a new congressional report says. But the 30-page report also says any case against Lee - who hasn't been charged - was "flawed from the outset" because officials identified several other suspects but didn't investigate them. Lee appeared on the CBS program "60 Minutes" on Sunday and emphatically denied passing secrets, claiming he was actually trying to protect secrets that he downloaded into his own unclassified computed. But the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee report says Lee was asked during an FBI polygraph test whether he had ever passed specific nuclear secrets "to any unauthorized person." "Wen Ho Lee failed this polygraph test," it says. Lee told "60 Minutes" that he was being racially scapegoated and blamed for the leaks because he's Asian-American - a claim that Energy Secretary Bill Richardson blasted as improperly playing "the race card." Lee was fired from his top-secret job last March but hasn't been charged, and it is unclear whether he will be after the botched probe. The report also details a series of goofs and miscommunications by the FBI, Attorney General Janet Reno and her staff that hurt the probe of how China got secrets that could vastly improve its nuclear arms. The probe "was not a comedy of errors but a tragedy of errors," said Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.), the panel's ranking Democrat. "There was a shocking lack of thoroughness, competency and urgency in the government's investigation." The committee chairman, Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.), said Reno was mostly "out of the loop" on a probe that she should have seen as vital to national security. The report says that the FBI and Department of Energy, which oversees the Los Alamos (N.M.) nuclear lab, where Lee and his wife worked, focused almost exclusively on them, although there were other suspects. Those others also had access to nuclear secrets, traveled to China and had contacts with visiting Chinese scientists, the report says. Through bungling and miscommunications, the FBI was stymied in getting Justice Department approval to search Lee's computer, although he had apparently agreed to the search four years before. Possibly for the first time ever, the report says, the Justice Department refused to help the FBI get a wiretap - agents were seeking to eavesdrop on Lee. Critics have also questioned when President Clinton was informed of possible Chinese spying and why his administration was so slow to react. During Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign, Democrats got - and later returned - megabucks in illegal campaign cash with Chinese links. Copyright 1999 NYP Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved. ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *Mike Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~~~~~~~~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day. ================================================================= DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
