-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2001/2/5/114228 .. Monday, Feb. 5, 2001 12:42 p.m. EST Times Report Shows Why Chinagate Must Be Ashcroft's Top Priority With the ascension of John Ashcroft to the attorney general's spot, suddenly long-dormant investigations seem to be heating up again. After years of stalling, U.S. Attorney for New York's Southern District Mary Jo White has finally indicted Ron Carey, the former Teamsters Union president who was booted out two years ago amidst charges of corruption. More intriguing still is Sunday's report in the Washington Post suggesting that Justice Department officials have developed a new round of questions for suspected Chinese nuclear spy Wen Ho Lee. On the same day, the New York Times recapped some of the evidence against Lee, in an article so dauntingly long that many readers no doubt skipped it. But for those who presumed Dr. Lee was more or less framed by the FBI in the wake of U.S. District Judge James Parker's apology last year for imprisoning him unjustly, the report was a real eye-opener. Though the probe never turned up smoking-gun evidence that Lee spied for Beijing, his behavior over the course of the last two decades raises questions that Attorney General Ashcroft simply can't ignore. The curious incidents reported by the Times include: Lee's attempts to foil the FBI's "Operation Tiger Trap," a 1982 probe that had targeted a suspected Chinese spy at California's Lawrence Livermore laboratory. Out of the blue, Lee turned up on tapes of the suspect's wiretapped phone calls. He was offering his compromised colleague help in learning just who had "squealed" on him. Lee later denied making the call. When probers confronted him with the tapes, he changed his story. In 1994 Lee turned up, completely uninvited, at a Los Alamos meeting between top-level U.S. and Chinese nuclear scientists. Dr. Hu Side, Beijing's leading nuclear bomb development expert, was among the select group invited to the exclusive conclave. "We had very tight controls on access," one laboratory official told the Times. "The door was closed. The session was not advertised." Still, somehow, Lee found out about the meeting, showed up, and was warmly received by Dr. Hu. One of those present told the Times he was shocked that the relatively obscure Lee, who was actually on the verge of being laid off due to lab budget cuts at the time, seemed to have a personal relationship with China's chief nuclear scientist. A translator on hand during the encounter between Lee and the Beijing bombmaker remembered key details of the conversation. "They were thanking him because the computer software and calculations on hydrodynamics that [Lee] provided them have helped China a great deal," he told another lab official interviewed by the Times. Lee never told his superiors that he had met Dr. Hu six years earlier while on a trip to Beijing. Shortly after Lee's Los Alamos reunion with Hu, American intelligence officials learned that the Chinese had made startling progress in miniaturizing their nuclear weapons. "It's like they were driving a Model T and went around the corner and suddenly had a Corvette," one scientist told the Times. In 1996, the FBI opened a secret investigation into Wen Ho Lee, but the Clinton Justice Department didn't make it a top priority. The case was passed from one agent to another like an unwanted stepchild, while the bureau pursued other investigations deemed more important by Washington officials. Due to the lack of focus, investigators never searched the suspected scientist's computer. They believed they lacked the authority to do so. But that presumption turned out to be wrong. Lee had signed a waiver in 1995 that would have permitted such a search. Meanwhile, allegations tying the Clinton campaign finance scandal to China's quest for U.S. military technology erupted. Democratic fund-raiser Johnny Chung testified in 1998 that the daughter of a Chinese military official sought him out and arranged a meeting with the chief of Chinese military intelligence. "We like your president. We want to see him re-elected," Gen Ji Shengde told Chung over dinner, before pledging $300,000 to help keep Clinton in the White House. Other, perhaps even more chilling, aspects of the FBI's Chinagate probe were overlooked in the Times and Post updates. As Wen Ho Lee's story slowly unfolded, for instance, the Clinton Justice Department nearly broke its neck looking the other way on potential evidence of a connection between the money Beijing agents funneled to Democrats and the U.S. technology the Chinese suddenly had access to. When FBI agents in Little Rock were assigned to surveil Charlie Trie, they observed the Clinton money man shredding documents like there was no tommorrow. The agents begged their superiors in Washington for a search warrant. Nothing doing, came the answer. Trained investigators were forced to watch helplessly as Trie left his home with boxes of additional material. When one agent turned over her notes on the incident to superiors at main Justice, 20 pages mysteriously disappeared. Also not noted by the Times or the Post is this hair-rasing detail: Johnny Chung, the only cooperating witness whose testimony linked the campaign finance and nuclear secrets scandals, was targeted for execution by at least two teams of Chinese assassins who were foiled by the FBI. A third attempt on his life in March 1999 nearly succeeded, resulting in the arrest of a lone gunman who sought to confront the former Clinton fund-raiser at his business office. When Chung gave his account of the attempted hit to NewsMax.com last year, only Fox News picked up the story, obtaining confirmation from the FBI that it had indeed arrested the alleged Chung hitman. Besides NewsMax and Fox, not another news venue in the enitre country has reported the attempted assassination of perhaps the most important cooperating witness in American history. Clearly, questions about links between the Chinese money scandal and the compromise of America's nuclear security can no longer be ignored. 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