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...damage was already done, and so agents had to find a way to "walk the cat back," as they like to say, and prove the crime in retrospect. That makes spy catching even harder, but the FBI didn't do itself any favors. Bureau sources concede that when the probe was opened in May 1996, it was left to second-string agents. "It was dumb and dumber," says a bureau veteran. "They put the wrong people to investigate it, and they didn't give it sufficient oversight from headquarters...
...cause" evidence required by law. The agency appealed to Reno, who refused to budge. Her decision was correct, but FBI grumbling about it made its way, as many FBI complaints do, to Capitol Hill. There, congressional Republicans who were already angry at Reno for dragging her feet on another probe involving China--the 1997 investigation into the highly creative Clinton-Gore fund-raising practices during the 1996 campaign--began to keep a watch on the Los Alamos case...
...cause" evidence required by law. The agency appealed to Reno, who refused to budge. Her decision was correct, but FBI grumbling about it made its way, as many FBI complaints do, to Capitol Hill. There, congressional Republicans who were already angry at Reno for dragging her feet on another probe involving China - the 1997 investigation into the highly creative Clinton-Gore fund-raising practices during the 1996 campaign - began to keep a watch on the Los Alamos case...
...While the pot boiled in Washington, the FBI's probe in New Mexico was going nowhere in 1998. At one point, the bureau allowed the DOE to have Lee polygraphed by a private security firm, which concluded that Lee was telling the truth. When DOE and FBI agents looking at the same results disagreed, alarmed DOE officials assigned Lee to another, unclassified job. The feds still lacked any evidence that Lee had spied or even stolen anything, and so they kept their sleuths on the case...
...Then, on March 6, 1999, the New York Times disclosed the FBI probe without mentioning Lee's name. The next day, FBI agents rushed to his home to "sweat him" before he clammed up completely. A confused Lee owned up to nothing, and on March 8 Richardson fired him for unrelated security violations turned up during the W-88 investigation. His name was leaked to the press, and he became known as a "suspected Chinese spy." He still had not been charged...