Hey...everybody, we really never took National Security seriously...heh..heh...Hey Monica, where are ya'????
Posted on 06/02/2006 7:33:42 PM PDT by Westlander
I don't know about Jewel. Lee's treatment did upset the Asian-American (formerly just American) contingent in New Mexico. (Of course, the political ramifications were not to the Democrat's advantage.)
If you had any background or experience in a scientific environment you'd be able to see how the NY Times and the Clintonites feeding them took normal every day things and put them in an out of context light to look ominous.
Los Alamos had a normal academic culture.
And you know this, how?
Wen Ho Lee court briefing is below. Same lawyers that are representing Hatfill. Hatfill mentioned extensively in this brief.
http://www.harriswiltshire.com/harriswiltshire/backoffice/upload/documents/Brief_of_Amicus_Curiae_Hatfill_Support_Lee.pdf
Are not these the same lawyers representing Scooter Libby? They are certainly using the same strategy.
Yes, I'd like to know about this "academic culture" that allowed scientists working on super secret programs to take their work home with them? I could just as easily assert that it was strictly prohibited, but difficult to enforce if scientists were inclined to be dishonest. And that is the problem. If our super secret labs allow foreign nationals of even slightly questionable loyalty to work in them, then they ask for this kind of espionage.
This is why he won. The news media told you this, even though there was no proof.
Thanks dennisw, good article. Notra Trulock wrote a number of informative articles on this issue. It would behoove some of the deniers to look them up.
I don't trust Reno, Bill Richardson, Clintonites more than I believe Notra Trulock.
He confessed to taking classified nuclear secrets from the lab and they have never been recovered. What's so difficult to understand?
You just make assertions over and over that have no detail at all. And each assertion is an exact parroting of the assertion of one or more former Clinton official who singled him out and jailed him after it was made clear how much interaction and money Clinton was getting from actual Chinese communists from China who were visiting the White House and fundraisers etc...
What "classified nuclear secrets" did he take from the lab?
By Paul Sperry
© 2001 WorldNetDaily.com
WASHINGTON -- Former nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee has broken his plea agreement by failing to help FBI agents recover classified computer tapes he stole from Los Alamos National Laboratory....
But despite intensive debriefing by the FBI, Lee has not adequately explained why he copied the files to the tapes and what he did with the tapes. The tapes remain missing. Authorities don’t buy his innocent claim, first made on CBS' "60 Minutes," that he copied the information to back up his work, because numerous measures had been built into Los Alamos’ computing system to protect against file loss. Lab physicists, moreover, testified that there was no legitimate reason for one scientist to have made backups of the entire library of source codes, since they normally work on just one small piece at a time. Authorities also say Lee’s claim he tossed the missing tapes in a trash bin behind his office at Los Alamos didn’t check out. And why toss those, yet keep the others? Under the terms of his plea deal, Lee agreed to disclose such information
Anyone who would accept such a coent obviously has never written a computer program or worked as a programmer in a large multi-server bureauacry.
That sentence is exactly my point about all sizzle and smoke -- it makes not sense and is meant only to fool.
Lee did go out of his way to get copies of these codes. He circumvented normal procedures many times. (He was also caught tailgating people into secure areas; one person goes in through the badge reader and another just trys to waltz through behind without being checked.) Theses two violations are sufficient for his firing.
Lee's lawyer (the same one Libby has and the same used by James Smith and Oliver North, one John Cline) wanted to ask about classified assets in open court. The government didn't wish to do that and cut a deal.
"These files, which amounted to more than 806 megabytes, contained information that could'do vast damage to the national security.
""These codes and their associated data bases and the input file, combined with someone that knew how to use them, could, in my opinion, in the wrong hands, change the global strategic balance."
""They enable the possessor to design the only objects that could result in the military defeat of America's conventional forces ... They represent the gravest possible security risk to ... the supreme national interest."
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2000_rpt/specter.html http://www.nationalreview.com/interrogatory/interrogatory022603.asp http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=1138
This sounds so ominous what you quoted but all it amounts to is he copied his code (stuff he wrote over years and years) from the main unix server to his local computer or a novell account.
It is so inoccuous but presented as so ominous you know whomever is feeding this to stupid reporters is not doing it to provide accurate information.
Total bull****.
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