Found in Family Dollar store: "A Convenient Spy: Wen Ho Lee and the Politics of Nuclear Espionage"

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My guess is that Family Dollar is the final stop before the recycling plant.

Wen Ho Lee has a powerful story which is quickly sliding into the fabled dustbin of history.

All this for a buck.

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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Excellent Reporting - Comprehensive and Objective, March 17, 2002
By Philip Carl "EcoAngler" (Half Moon Bay, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Convenient Spy: Wen Ho Lee and the Politics of Nuclear Espionage (Hardcover)
This books gives an extremely lucid account of the United States V. Wen Ho Lee. I appreciated the book at several levels. Given the spotty coverage in the national media as the case and trial unfolded, the book paints a complete picture of the historic event. The veteran reports, Dan Stober and Ian Hoffman, deliver an unbiased account of all the key events and players. To a large degree, the reporters allow you to form your own opinion on Wen Ho Lee's motivations. Not until the final Epilogue does the book explore the possible motivations for why Mr. Lee placed moved numerous files onto an unclassified network and even went to the trouble of creating a huge tape library of the programs and data used for modeling nuclear explosions. (Mr. Lee eventually pleaded guilty to violating security laws regarding the treatment of these files. And to date, the federal government has been unable to trace and locate several of the tapes he created as "backup.")
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21 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
Excellent book on all aspects of Wen Ho Lee controversy, January 10, 2002
By Frank (Stockton CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Convenient Spy: Wen Ho Lee and the Politics of Nuclear Espionage (Hardcover)
It was a difficult job to write a book which completely, and yet readably, presents the background and all aspects of the Wen Ho Lee controversy.
On the one hand, Wen Ho Lee's supporters present a view of a scientist who, for no reason except his national origin, was persecuted by the government.
On the other hand, the Justice Department portrayed Lee as an evil and incredibly dangerous master spy.
The truth is not just in the middle, but multi-faceted.
Wen Ho Lee acted suspiciously. He contacted, and gave non-classified information to, foreign governments. He repeatedly downloaded very comprehensive and secret information on the US atomic bomb program to non-secure computers and tape drives - a security lapse which could have been devastating.
On the other hand, the Justice Department was operating under political pressure to find a scapegoat to prove the administration was not "soft on China." They held Lee without bail, in solitary confinement, under threat of life imprisonment, for 278 days, with no evidence that Lee gave secret information to a foreign government. (In comparison, when John Deutch, former CIA Director, was discovered to have stored very sensitive national security secrets on his internet-connected home computer, which was used by a household member to access pornographic internet sites, nothing was done to him except that he lost his security clearance.)
The book gives plausible reasons that Lee may have downloaded the information, consistent with Lee's character and past actions, which do not involve spying.
This is a very well-written, balanced, and thorough book; I recommend it to anyone who wishes to learn more about the Wen Ho Lee controversy.

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