The more I think about it, the more I look upon this Wen Ho Lee "Spy" scandal as a desperate smoke screen set up by Megamole John Deutch, Pollard & Associates to cover up their high-treason scheme as regards the Clinton administration's Middle East policy....
Here's a fair account of how the American public opinion has been diverted from Israel's (successful) attempt to sabotage the Oslo Accord:
THIS JUST IN
The startling news that the Department of Justice security chief, John Dion, is recommending against the prosecution of Lee was followed by even more startling news: the resignation of Mr. Notra Trulock, the Department of Energy official who led the witch-hunt against Lee. This capped a week of new developments in this long-simmering case, during which none other than respected former Senator Warren Rudman (R-NH), now serving on the President's Federal Intelligence Advisory Board, weighed in on the side of the beleaguered Lee. Rudman authored a scathing report that lambasted the investigation, derided the lack of any evidence that Lee had passed on any information, and raised a vital point: Why focus on Lee when the information he is alleged to have stolen was available in so many other places? With more than two dozen other possible sources of the security leak, why did Trulock --who has three other grievances filed against him by Department of Energy employees-- home in on Lee, a Taiwan-born ethnic Chinese?
THIN AIR
This question was trenchantly answered by Robert Vrooman, former counterintelligence chief at the Los Alamos Laboratory, where Lee worked, who declared that the case against Lee "was built on thin air." Vrooman verified what we have been maintaining in these pages all along, and what Lee said on Sixty Minutes: the Feds are scapegoating Lee because he is ethnic Chinese. Their whole case is based on ethnicity. Who else are the alleged "kindred spirits" here, but that traitorous Chink and his Commie masters?
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HOROWITZ DEFENDS TREASON
To add insult to injury, Horowitz is not content to convict a seemingly innocent man of espionage without citing a shred of evidence --he must exculpate the crimes of a real traitor in the process! In the midst of his unsupported accusations against Lee, Horowitz has the unmitigated gall to write that:
"Unlike China, for example, the state of Israel is a democracy and a proven ally of the United States. Yet when an Israeli agent named Jonathan Pollard was discovered stealing secrets whose dimensions did not even approach the seriousness of these thefts (no technologies, for example, were involved), he was given a life sentence amidst the most solemn anathemas from the officials of the government he betrayed."
FREE WEN HO LEE --AND FRY POLLARD!
Attorney Joseph diGenova, who prosecuted Pollard, has a different view: "Pollard ranks among the four most serious cases of national security damage in the history of this country," said diGenova on This Week with Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts [10/25/98]. "Nothing matches what he did in terms of the compromise of the technical intelligence capability of this country and he put at risk human lives." As noted in the Prather Report, released by the office of that well-known Maoist, Jack Kemp, the so-called "legacy codes" downloaded by Lee were hopelessly outdated, and would be of little technical use to Chinese scientists. Another difference between Lee and Pollard is that the latter was caught, red-handed, and arrested outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, just as he was about to seek political asylum. Not only that, but Pollard never denied his guilt: instead, he boasted about how much material he had handed over to a foreign government and claimed that the US was unfairly persecuting and even attacking Israel by withholding such information. Lee insists on his innocence, while Pollard glories in his guilt. Now, I ask you: what kind of person wants to jail the former without evidence, while freeing the latter in spite of the evidence?
A NEOCON CELEBRITY
Pollard has become a celebrity among Israeli hard-liners and their American amen-corner, the Mumia Abu-Jamal of today's neoconservatives. These ex-leftists-turned-warmongering "conservatives," of which Horowitz is the epitome, who no longer have the socialist countries to idealize, seem to have substituted Israel for the late-lamented Soviet Union in their affections. Just as in an earlier time such people signed petitions to free the Rosenbergs and exonerate Alger Hiss, while calling for the jailing of World War II isolationists like Lawrence Dennis for "sedition," so today their intellectual (and, in some cases, familial) descendants downplay Pollard's crimes, lobby for the commutation of his life sentence --and howl for the blood of Wen Ho Lee.
WHO BENEFITS?
Lee's martyrdom at the hands of vindictive bureaucrats, vengeful haters, and vaunting politicians of both parties is not just a crime against a single individual, but an assault on a whole people. The effect of the Sinophobic hysteria in Congress and the national security apparatus has been to demoralize and drive out not only Chinese-American scientists working on government and defense-related projects, but also to cast a pall of suspicion on all foreign-born scientists. For if Wen Ho Lee can be demonized as the "kindred spirit" of the "Red" Chinese, without proof or the pretense of fairness, then so can any foreigner working in any government or defense-related research facility. Instead of ensuring a strong America, the crazed campaign to drive out Chinese-American scientists from the government-controlled sector of the scientific community is a big blow to the national defense. Instead of encouraging talented Chinese science and engineering students studying in America to stay, the witch-hunt is driving them back to China --much to the satisfaction of Chinese government, which is trying desperately to stop the continuous "brain drain" to the West.
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