Another National Security Case Goes Array

Recall a pre-September 11 case in which a “foreigner” was accused of endangering the national security?   Well, the government and five news organizations agreed Friday to pay former nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee $1.6 million to settle his lawsuit that accused officials of wrongly identifying him as a suspected spy for China. Lee sued the Justice Department and the Energy Department claiming officials violated his privacy rights when they leaked damaging information about him to the press during a 1999 investigation into files allegedly missing from the nuclear research facility at Los Alamos, New Mexico. Lee was fired from his job and spent nine months in solitary confinement but was never charged. He was released in 2000 after pleading guilty to mishandling computer files, and he received an apology from a judge for his treatment.   Click here from the story.

Will you feel safer tonight?

KJ