Bosco, >>> if I remember Mr Wallace's trailing remark correctly, seems to have suggested the NYT piece, from which I ve made my previous [post initial] observation, has inadvertently damage the case, both for and against Dr Lee. Anyway, each of you who have seen the programme can decide for yourself <<<
What is there to decide? No one in an offical capacity is accusing Dr Lee of spying. There is only innuendo.
Then there is Mr. Richardson, a profile in personal weakness. He was quoted on 60 minutes that Dr. Lee will be treated like anyone else. Anyone else moving classified files from secured computers to computers less secure will be subject to the same criminal proceedings that Dr. Lee is facing.
Dr. Lee claimed he moved the files, or more accurately, backed up his files, to protect against disk crashes is a routine part of his work. Hundreds of others do the same.
An expert witness, I forget his name, backs up this statement. He adds that this was all done within a secured building within the Los Alamos Laboratories. Dr. Lee also stated that the files were secured by passwords on three different levels. He himself, who set up the passwoards, would have trouble at times accessing these file.
The expert witness also stated that others have violated these security measures far more egregiously. He cited a former CIA director with moving highly classified files from secured computers to his own laptop that he carried home with him.
The only question that should be open, is how do we keep people with very little integrity and a lot of political ambition, like Mr. Richardson, away from positions of responsibility supervising people with a lot of integrity, like Dr. Lee and the other scientists at Los Alamos? |
