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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (9132)	8/18/1999 4:47:00 PM
From: Bosco	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9980

Hi Ron - promise to be my last [for the time being anyway <G>.] You have raised many good questions - questions I do not have the answer [if I did, I would be in trouble <SG>!] I must confess I ve not followed the case as close as others, but I thought all his trips were authorized, but some of the people he met during his trip[s] is in question. For instance, he did not report people have approached him. I could be wrong, but since he would need a visa to go to mainland China, it would be doubtful he could hide that [unless he was a stowaway in one of the cargo ships going to Matsui - and got smuggled into the mainland <VBG>!] Maybe you have placed too much emphasis on the merit [or dismerit] of polygraph results as much as the internal consistency of the argument. Maybe it is as good as sodium pentanol in the hand of the skilled diagnostician. I don't know and I am not disputing that. I am saying that if the one who presents the argument doesn't believe in it himself, it becomes less forceful to the jury. Additionally, if one takes the two exams together, at best they neutralize each other with a 50/50 split [sorry, this has nothing to do with Lee but a structural thing quite vital to rationality.] Ultimately, you are right that the known transgressions are enough for him to lose his position - and I doubt anyone would argue with you about that - whether it is selective persecution or not is an entirely different matter [I mean, the other-people-do-it-too defense is not a best defensive position one should take, I know it even if I am not a trained legal professional.] However, I think Ron B's original point still holds. I mean, if the case is so solid, then there won't be so much of passing-the-buck. But one has to wonder, is this putting-Al-Capone-in-prison-for-tax-evasion or miscarriage of justice? It is complicated enough if it is a pure legal case only. With great political gains and losses hang in the balance, I just wonder best, Bosco