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...rated. FBI agents suspect that for more than a decade, while working as a research scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, Lee was surreptitiously downloading millions of lines of classified code from the lab's top-secret computer database and storing the codes on the hard drive of his personal office computer. The actual transfer between systems was pretty easy, requiring little more than the kind of drag-and-click computer moves that millions of deskbound Americans perform every day. It wasn't exactly grist for a white-knuckle thriller...
...playing with blockbuster material. Known as "legacy codes," the 100 or so calculations that he put on his hard drive contained a gold mine of nuclear secrets--reams of physics equations and weapon-test results and warhead designs--painstakingly amassed by the U.S. since the government began building atom bombs at Los Alamos a half-century ago. When Energy Department officials discovered in March that a mid-level scientist had copied programs from the prized database, they were chagrined. That the scientist was the Taiwanese-born Lee, the same one fired on March 8 amid fears that he might already...
...field agents in Albuquerque zeroed in on Lee's office computer and proposed a covert search of his hard drive. But because of laws against searches and seizures in the workplace, government officials can't rifle employees' computers or desks unless the workspace has been specifically marked with banners warning of possible searches. The computers at Los Alamos weren't tagged, so to execute a search, the agents had to apply for a formal warrant through the Justice Department...
...computer. Three days later, Richardson fired Lee and assured everyone the worst was over. It was not. On March 28, he got the mind-blowing news: not only had Lee downloaded the legacy codes onto his unclassified computer, but he also later tried to delete them from his hard drive. And someone using Lee's password had already accessed the codes. Richardson briefed Clinton the next day, got approval to shut down the nuclear labs for two weeks and vowed to can staff members who had impeded the investigation...
...break and landed a regular role on General Hospital. His part on the ABC soap was not a stretch--he played Miguel Morez, a singer from Puerto Rico. Wendy Riche, General Hospital's executive producer, created the role after meeting with him just once. She was struck by his drive and determination to succeed. Says Riche: "He lives to perform...