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...other time, Indyk would probably have received a lighter administrative penalty. But Washington is in the grip of security paranoia. After the FBI's bungled espionage investigation of government nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee, the Administration is eager to show it is not singling out Asian Americans for security violations. Albright, under fire from Congress for lax safeguards at the State Department, was not about to give Indyk just a slap on the wrist. Besides, relations between the two had grown chilly because of clashes over how the U.S. should deal with Iraq. "So she's hung Martin...
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...
...even setting aside concerns over Lee's civil rights for a moment, it's worth questioning how Director Freeh's testimony will actually help the FBI. After all, if the senators and the wider public actually do buy into a portrait of Wen Ho Lee as a devious consort of a foreign power hungry for U.S. nuclear secrets, they're as likely to believe that by getting away only with time served on a single felony count he made the feds look silly...
...Microsoft - whose stock hopped on the news but is still well below its highs from less troubled times - now gets its chance to put what it hopes will be a Wen Ho Lee-esque spin on the case. Redmond's lawyers will be taking a basket of procedural complaints and charges of government sloppiness to a court much more suited to hearing them than the Supremes would be, and Justice will likely find itself forced to defend its tactics as well as the issues at stake. For Bill Gates, that's well worth another year in purgatory...
...Abdel-Rahman, who was convicted in 1995 of conspiring to blow up the U.N. building. The FBI claimed that Ahmed, who had been arrested in 1996 for overstaying his visa, had relayed a message from Abdel-Rahman that sparked a terrorist bombing in Egypt. As in the case of Wen Ho Lee, Ahmed was held without being shown the evidence against him; all the government needed was for a judge to agree that freeing him would put the nation's security at risk. It took 43 months for the INS to concede that neither Abdel-Rahman nor Ahmed caused...