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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Carolyn who wrote (3971)	11/29/2000 11:02:04 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 6710

U. S. Grant was an alcoholic, even being rumored to get hammered before and during battles. It was reported to Lincoln, since the Union was committing it's last army to this one man. Lincoln said "Find out what he's drinking, and issue it to all my generals." I think it's regular Liberal Libel to call GWB an alcoholic. The 24-year-old-arrest story was released for the same reasons they are still fighting in Florida: To steal the presidency even at the risk of the nation. Power is an obsession of the Left, while usually not aspired to nearly enough by the Right. But GWB has more than three strikes against him with the Left. What they REALLY HATE is: He's a patriot. He threatens the Clinton personality cult. He won. He reformed in the intervening years by finding solace in Christianity-the Left's most hated religion. His policies are intended to make the country stronger, rather than the opposite, as is their preference. Once he's in, it may be very hard to win the presidency back for a very many cycles. So for them, as now with us, the war will not end with an inauguration...

To: Carolyn who wrote (3971)	11/29/2000 11:56:39 PM
From: Vendit™	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6710

Did you read this? Wednesday November 29 8:36 PM ET FBI Hunts for Missing Nuclear Tapes By RICHARD BENKE, Associated Press Writer ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Days after Wen Ho Lee's security access was revoked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the nuclear scientist entered the lab's top-secret X Division and threw away the data tape cartridges FBI agents are now searching for in a landfill, a source familiar with the investigation said Wednesday. The FBI, which had alleged someone let Lee into the X Division, expects to spend weeks picking through the Los Alamos County dump searching for the 17 tapes Lee has said he destroyed. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press that Lee ``disposed of the tapes in a dumpster inside the X Division fence in January 1999.'' Assistant U.S. Attorney George Stamboulidis declined to comment Wednesday. The San Jose Mercury News also reported in its Wednesday editions that Lee told agents in secret debriefing sessions that he threw the tapes into the trash and that they never otherwise left the lab. The newspaper did not elaborate on its sources. Lee lost his security clearance in December 1998, and his access card for the X Division, where he had worked, was revoked. Prosecutors alleged Lee sought access to the division 16 times between Dec. 23, 1998, and Feb. 23, 1999 - including at 3:31 a.m. Christmas Eve 1998. They have said he gained access on three occasions, including January 1999. Agent Doug Beldon said numerous agents and evidence technicians resumed their muddy landfill search Wednesday morning and expected to search during daytime hours for quite some time. ``It is a very laborious task,'' he said. The workers used bulldozers to move mounds of garbage, then, wearing white protective clothing, used hand rakes to look for debris in the 50-acre landfill, which is covered with patches of melting snow. Lee spent nine months jailed without bail. He was freed Sept. 13 after pleading guilty to one count of downloading restricted data to an unsecure tape. Fifty-eight other counts were dropped. As a condition of the plea agreement, Lee agreed to tell agents what happened to seven data tapes he has said all along were destroyed. Agents had recovered three other data tapes. At the time of his release, Lee told investigators he also made copies of those 10 tapes but had destroyed the copies as well, FBI and Justice Department officials have said. The AP source declined to elaborate on what specific actions, aside from disposal, Lee took to destroy the tapes. Lee has sworn he never passed any secrets to any unauthorized person. Stacy Cohen, a Los Angeles spokeswoman for the Lee family, said she could not comment on the landfill search, but added: ``Wen Ho continues to cooperate with the government.'' If anyone found the pocket-sized tape cartridges, and if restricted nuclear weapons data were still encoded on them, some computer companies might be able to recover the data. Nicole Martin, spokeswoman for Minneapolis-based Ontrack Systems, said her company would be able to do so. However, if the tapes did end up in the landfill, they would likely be compressed and possibly crushed by now, said Ray Sisneros, solid waste manager for Los Alamos County. He said they would be buried under 6 to 8 feet of garbage and more than 2 feet of topsoil and contained in a 300- by 300-foot block of trash that contains about 5,000 tons of compressed garbage. - On the Net: Department of Energy: energy.gov Los Alamos National Lab: lanl.gov http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20001129/us/scientist_secrets_8.html