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...with him at every turn," former Secretary of State Warren Christopher recalls. "The Vice President was usually the last person he talked to before reaching a foreign policy decision." Which is not a bad place to be when you are trying to persuade the ever persuadable Clinton. Says Bill Richardson, the Energy Secretary and former U.N. Ambassador: "He comes in at the end, summarizes, moves the President...
...have passed weapons secrets to the Chinese government, was doubly embarrassing. But the realization that the codes stored on Lee's computer could have found their way into scores of foreign hands, including those of the Chinese government, left U.S. officials dumbstruck. "Holy s___," was what Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said when his counterintelligence chief told him of the data transfers in late March...
...Clinton Administration last week scrambled to contain the damage. Richardson admitted a colossal security breach but said there was no evidence that the Chinese or anyone else had actually obtained the nuclear data from Lee. (Through his lawyer, Lee has denied any wrongdoing.) On Thursday FBI chief Louis Freeh gave similar assurances in a private briefing for the Senate Intelligence Committee. But the Senators came out of the three-hour meeting irate. The most overheated Republicans compared Lee to Klaus Fuchs, the Los Alamos scientist who passed atomic secrets to the Soviets in the 1940s. Even Democrats raged...
...from conclusive evidence of his spying but from disclosure of the case late last year to Representative Christopher Cox's committee investigating allegations of Chinese spying. The committee informed the Administration that it would reveal China's alleged W-88 theft in its report. That put the pressure on Richardson. In February he ordered a polygraph of Lee, who failed it. On March 5, FBI agents confronted Lee and extracted permission to search his 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...
Moreover, the actress seems to be leading as unglitzy a social life as a person can have when good friends include Natasha Richardson, Ewan McGregor (with whom she stars in the British film Rogue Trader, premiering in the U.S. on Cinemax next month) and Kate Moss. She's single and dating now and then, even though she finds American men somewhat inscrutable: "Men are wonderfully upfront here. But you go out, you have a lovely time, you're asked a lot of questions, and you don't know if the guy's ever going to call again." Following her nightly...