Its not just another attack on Reno and Richardson. Scheer is an editor at the Nation and used to write for Ramparts. He doesn't have much in common with Larry Klayman.
The FBI wasn't "prodded by leaks from Congress" as you say, to go after this guy. The article says there was prodding from Congress and the Secretary of Energy to administer a lie detector test. It shouldn't surprise that the FBI will frame a guy, but when they're aided by the most influential paper in the country, it does get a little discouraging. I found these quotes bothersome:
In a March 6, 1999, story, a New York Times' writer identified as "the main suspect" a Los Alamos computer scientist "who is Chinese American." That is a reference to Lee, who was actually born in Taiwan and is a naturalized American citizen with no family ties to mainland China. The Times story stated that the government only administered a lie detector test to Lee the month before "after prodding from Congress and the secretary of Energy," which the FBI insisted Lee had failed. Obviously the newspaper's sources had not revealed that Lee had easily passed the department of Energy lie detector test two months before.
Most egregious was the substance of the New York Times story implicating Lee in the theft of the secrets of the W-88 warhead. Two days after the story ran, Lee was fired. The government now concedes that Lee is no longer a suspect in that case, nor is he charged with having passed any secrets to any person or nation.
Then there is the story of Barry McCaffrey meeting with Abe Rosenthal to discuss ways of attacking George Soros.
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That story is about how McCaffrey was secretly taping conversations he was having with journalists. They don't even question why one of America's top newspapermen is meeting with one of the top law enforcers to figure out ways they can go after a citizen who has broken no laws. I assume similar meetings occurred regarding Lee. |
