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...spent an estimated 40 hours over 70 days downloading all that data, what he did with much of it or why he tried repeatedly to enter a restricted area after losing his security clearance - once, around 3:30 a.m. on Christmas Eve. As part of his plea agreement, Lee promised to explain everything to investigators. He will never again be able to vote, however, or serve on a jury...
...solitary confinement for nine months to force him to confess a crime. Even President Clinton has slammed his attorney general's handling of the case, saying denying Wen Ho Lee bail and keeping him in solitary confinement as a threat to national security was rendered unjustified by the plea agreement the government accepted...
...convicted, of course, but not of espionage - in fact, he was never even charged with espionage, and the 59-count indictment for allegedly downloading the "crown jewels" of U.S. nuclear secrets with the intention to share these with a foreign power was reduced, in the plea agreement, to single felony count of mishandling classified information. Still, his case is unlikely to get much attention this election season, and not only because President Clinton has preemptively joined the ranks of government critics...
...refusing to cooperate with investigators last year. But it's also plain, now, that the pursuit of Lee, which began in a climate of political hysteria over allegations of Chinese nuclear espionage, has been an embarrassing failure for a government that appears to have been forced to accept a plea agreement to avoid further humiliation. After all, the deal came days before the deadline on which the government would have been forced to hand over thousand of pages of documents explaining why Lee had been arrested. And in his ire, the judge expressed regret Wednesday that the government hadn...
...smell any better. It only makes the contestants happy, but it shouldn't make the public happy." After all, he argues, if Lee was guilty of the original charges, then he shouldn't have been released, but if he's guilty only of the felony cited in the plea agreement, then he should never have been denied bail in the first place - in other words, Dershowitz accused the Justice Department of denying Lee bail as a means of pressuring him into a guilty plea...