Wen Ho Lee Gets $750,000 In Settlement Of Privacy Lawsuit

The Associated Press ^ | June 2, 2006 | AP

[Westlander]

WASHINGTON -- Five news organizations are paying Wen Ho Lee $750,000 as part of a settlement of the nuclear weapons scientist's privacy lawsuit.

Lee ended his suit against the Energy and Justice Departments on Friday. He had accused federal officials of smearing him by leaking information that he was under investigation as a spy for China.

Federal judges held five reporters in contempt of court for refusing to name their sources in stories about the spy investigation.

The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and ABC are making the payment. Legal and media experts said the payment may be the first of its kind.

The companies said they "sought relief in the courts and found none." In a statement, the news groups say the payout "was the best course to protect" sources and reporters.

[Westlander]

Busted.

[azhenfud]

They actually did the man wrong. They assumed someone with a "Chinese sounding" name would be spying for China or somehow would be less than loyal to the US of which he calls home.

[ROTB]

So he got treated like a jewel.

Richard "Jewel" that is.

[Doctor Stochastic]

So he got treated like a jewel.

Assuming you consider nine months shackled in solitary to be "treated like a jewel."

[Westlander]

Agreed.

[The Westerner]

I believe he stole nuclear secrets for the Chicoms at our labs. He got away with it, in effect.

[Eagles6]

You got that right. He's also never turned over the material he said he would in the plea bargain. Our msm made him out to be an innocent victim while he advanced the chicoms nuclear attack capability immeasurably

[tallhappy]

Reno's justice departent still paying dividends.

Frame the little guy who works in a lab (Bill Richardson and Reno) to divert attention when millions are flowing from real Chinese communists.

[Eagles6]

He was a freaking chicom spy!

[tallhappy]

Our msm made him out to be an innocent victim

Actually it was the New York Times that named him and smeared him before he was ever arrested.

Where did they get their info? Clinton's gang. Classic De-MSM smear job like we see all the time now.

It was a diversion.

[quantim]

What about Hatfield?

Killer or victim?

[aShepard]

If not Lee's, I wonder who's fingerprints turned up on the computer tapes conveniently found in back of the Copier machine a few weeks later????

[A CA Guy]

Ho LEE Cow... Good for him.

[tallhappy]

He was a freaking chicom spy!

He was never convicted of that or charged with that. Who said he was this? Our great and trustworthy Clintonites Janet Reno and Bill Richardson and their allies in the Fifth Estate the New York Slimes.

You believe them?

[battlecry]

You have a point, and I can't recall if it was a fact or not, but it was reported he carried classified material out of the labs. Berger did it, Deutch did it, McCarthy probably did. None of them are convicted or behind bars either. I don't believe any of them, including Lee, did a service to our nation.

[ROTB]

I thought Jewel was a suspect long enough for the hubub to blow over ... right?

If either Lee or Jewel spent 9 months in solitary, it would be news to me. But Lee also was a suspect regarding the Los Alamos data theft ... right?

[Eagles6]

Please do some research on what he actually did. He very well have been a sacrificial lamb given up in reponse to the Cox report. A red herring, yes, but also quite guilty.

[tallhappy]

Guilty of ...?

[dennisw]

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[Doctor Stochastic]

Lee admitted to copying classified material. He also forgot where he put all the copies. The prosecution wouldn't have been ept enough to convict Booth of killing Lincoln.