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...SHAOMIN, 45, U.S. citizen and business professor who had been detained in China for three months, with spying for Taiwan; in Beijing. Li is one of five Chinese American citizens or residents, mostly academics, who have been detained in recent months by Beijing on espionage charges. CHARGED. ROBERT HANSSEN, former FBI agent, with 21 counts of espionage, for selling U.S. secrets to Russia for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds; by a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia. PAROLED. PATRICK HENRY, 47, France's one-time "most hated man," after serving 25 years of a life sentence for the murder...
Maybe he's better off that way. If he were given to emoting, the Attorney General might be sounding low, if only because his 15 weeks in office have seen two colossal FBI embarrassments: the revelation that accused Russian spy Robert Hanssen operated inside the bureau for 15 years; and the discovery of thousands of pages of undisclosed documents in the case of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, which rescued the convict at the brink of execution, at least for now. Neither mess was Ashcroft's fault, of course, but he has to clean both...
Welcome to the NFL. Just as Ashcroft's predecessor, Janet Reno, grappled with the Waco disaster a month after taking the reins, Ashcroft so far has been involved mostly with crisis control. Hanssen was indicted last week after plea negotiations between the feds and his lawyers broke down. The impasse, sources told TIME, was over Ashcroft's insistence on preserving the option to seek the death penalty in the case. That's against the advice of many in the FBI and the intelligence community--among them, the sources say, CIA Director George Tenet, who has personally lobbied Ashcroft several times...
...have done this years ago, they said, if the FBI had just handed over their secret tapes that proved his guilt. That conviction came after months of criticism that the FBI had dismissed warnings of a mole in its ranks right up until they tripped over Russian spy Robert Hanssen, an agent for 25 years. Last month the bureau announced a mediation agreement with African-American agents in a long-running class action charging bias in promotions. Last year there was the relentless pursuit of Wen Ho Lee, the Los Alamos scientist who spent nine months in jail after...
...hasn?t been. It?s unclear what will happen to Mrs. Hanssen and their kids; I?m sure they have a lawyer trying to figure all of this out. It?s possible that the IRS could come after her for tax fraud, the government could take away their house and his pension, and she could be left destitute. On the other hand, the government could take a more lenient position, since she didn?t seem to be involved in the espionage...