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Bush Justice Department Seeks to Halt Wen Ho Lee Testimony
Crime/Corruption News
NewsMax
Published: 06/04/2001 Author: Carl Limbacher & NewsMax.com staff
Posted on 06/04/2001 09:37:10 PDT by Pokey78
Lawyers at the Bush Justice Department want to block a deposition by
suspected Chinese nuclear spy Wen Ho Lee - exacerbating concerns that the
Bush administration is reluctant to have the truth emerge about what
happened during the Clinton-Gore administration's Chinagate scandal.
Dr. Lee was set to be deposed by Judicial Watch on May 24 and 25 in Los
Alamos, N.M., home of the nuclear weapons lab where he downloaded defense
secrets that were described as "the crown jewels" of the U.S. nuclear
weapons program.
Lee's computer files are still missing and he has yet to tell government
probers what he did with them, though charges against the Chinese-born
scientist were winnowed down to a single felony count of mishandling
classified information. In a deal with the Clinton Justice Department last
year, Lee pleaded guilty to the charge.
Lee's lawyers claimed allegations against him were the result of racial
profiling by former Energy Department security chief Notra Trulock, who,
with the help of Judicial Watch, has responded with a lawsuit for
defamation
against the suspected spy.
The legal watchdog group is understandably outraged by the Justice
Department's intervention, which could mean that Lee will never be
questioned by anyone but the FBI and Justice Department prosecutors, who
have already acknowledged bungling the case.
"Despite knowing for many months that Judicial Watch intended to depose Dr.
Lee, the Bush Justice Department said nothing," Judicial Watch complained
on
Monday. "At the eleventh hour, it filed an emergency motion to prevent oral
testimony claiming it would harm national security."
Judicial Watch Chairman Larry Klayman suspects the Justice Department's
real
agenda is to cover up more government bungling.
"The Bush Justice Department is seeking to protect the FBI from further
embarrassment after the recent debacle concerning alleged Russian spy
Robert
Hanssen and Timothy McVeigh," he charged.
A federal magistrate will rule on the Justice Department's emergency motion
later today.
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