Word: wiretap
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...January, FOX-TV News ran a three-part series exposing the blatant frame-up of Geronimo: FBI wiretap logs, and recent testimony of former Panthers, showed that Geronimo was in Oakland at a Panther meeting at the time of the Santa Monica murder; unknown to the jury, the key prosecution witness, Julius Butler, was an FBI and LAPD informer; and new, compelling evidence points to two associates of Butler as the likely real killers...
...with its sheaf of documentation in tow, will be any less intent on nailing both the Clinton administration (for unpatriotic negligence) and the Chinese (for -- gasp -- espionage!). Janet Reno, no stranger to calls for her resignation, looks likelier than ever to take the fall for denying the FBI a wiretap of Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee. And China's Most Favored Nation status, up for renewal by Congress in June, could finally go down as well. (Though, as Beijing correctly points out -- while denying all charges -- the U.S. couldn't have gotten 700 detailed pages together without some serious...
...lost China?" campaign is to have its own Alger Hiss, the prime candidate appears to be Attorney General Janet Reno. Even liberal New Jersey Democratic senator Robert Torricelli Sunday joined the Republican chorus calling for Reno's resignation, on charges that she failed to authorize an FBI wiretap of Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee, suspected of passing nuclear secrets to Beijing...
...question here is whether the FBI presented the Justice Department with sufficient evidence to justify a wiretap," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "If Justice turned a blind eye for political reasons, then Reno should be prosecuted. But rather than comparing it with the Rosenbergs, some people are calling this nuclear espionage's Richard Jewell case -- asking why, if Wen Ho Lee is so bad, we don't have enough to arrest the guy." Months of leaks from the Cox committee's classified report alleging nuclear negligence have prepared Washington to expect a damning indictment of the Clinton administration...
There remain mysteries surrounding Lee. The engineer first came to the FBI's attention in 1982, when an FBI wiretap picked up a phone conversation between Lee and another Taiwanese-born scientist who was under investigation for passing U.S. neutron-bomb secrets to the Chinese. The FBI then administered a polygraph test on Lee. He passed with flying colors. In the mid-'80s, he and his wife again appeared on the FBI's radar screen, when they approached the Albuquerque field office and volunteered to inform on visiting delegations from the People's Republic and on Chinese scientists...