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When Robert O. Krikorian says "We're not asking for a handout, we're not asking for a free ride. We just want some help," his plea may sound familiar to Cambridge residents accustomed to ducking the homeless in Harvard Square...
Looks like Wen Ho Lee will go on trial, after all. It's not that the plea agreement he reached with the government to end his nine-month incarceration is off; rather, FBI director Louis Freeh is set to detail his agency's case against Lee before the Senate Tuesday - the same day as the New York times published a nuanced mea culpa for the instances in which its coverage of the story "fell short of our standards." In an effort supposedly to justify the government's incarceration of the fired Los Alamos nuclear scientist - questioned even by President Clinton...
...fact that Freeh is explaining in great detail the government's suspicions after Lee's case was concluded by a plea agreement that convicted him only of one felony count of mishandling classified information suggests that the FBI believes its evidence will fare better in the Senate than it would have done in a courtroom. Of course, civil-rights advocates will howl at the appearance of double jeopardy, and question the fairness of giving the prosecution a second chance in a setting whose evidentiary standards are not those of a courtroom. And even before that to the media, once again...
...case, apologized to Lee and told him he had served enough time already--278 days in prison. Afterward, Richardson argued improbably that the government had triumphed. "The issue here," he says, "is are we getting the tapes back, and do we find out what happened to those tapes. The plea bargain enables us to get that information." Maybe so, but there had to have been an easier...
...protect against terrorists and spies. But too often, argues Jonathan Turley, national security expert and law professor at George Washington University, prosecutors use national security to make their jobs easier, not to make the country safer. "The government routinely makes outlandish allegations about national security," he says, "to force plea agreements...