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Civil liberties have always occupied a sacred place in our nation's history. At the same time, they have also been vulnerable to the claims of national security. The recent case of Taiwanese-American nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee is an example of the terrible consequences of the government's zeal for security gone awry...
...country's most pragmatic--the first hypercentrist electorate. Jeb Bush found that out when he ran an ideological campaign in 1994 and lost, then in 1998 became a compassionate conservative like his brother and won. "The country is tired of high-temperature partisan politics," says University of Florida political scientist Richard Scher. "Here, voters are fiercely independent...
...hard to find anyone left standing - much less standing tall - after the government's strange case against nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee came crashing to the ground last week. No one was bleeding so heavily as the FBI and its director, Louis Freeh, whose top agent recanted some of his testimony against the 60-year-old Los Alamos engineer. But there was rubble everywhere you looked. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, whose department had ignored security lapses at Los Alamos for years, was walking around in a daze. Rescue workers were still searching for Attorney General Janet Reno and her deputy...
...cell for only one hour a day. His arms and legs in chains, he was allowed to kick a soccer ball around a small exercise area. The restrictions were eased in June, as both sides prepared for trial. "This has been such a strange, surreal experience," Chung Lee, the scientist's only son, told TIME...
...dared test in court - which painted a damning picture of Lee. The views of the guardians of the nation's security obviously carry great authority when reported in publications of record, creating the impression that it was a "known" fact in the corridors of power that the Los Alamos scientist had handed over the crown jewels of U.S. nuclear secrets to China - treachery on a scale comparable to that of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, they said - even if the sources of this information were also warning that the government might not be able to make the espionage charges stick...