At 5:45 PM -0400 9/13/00, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Eric Cordian wrote:
''I sincerely apologize to you, Dr. Lee, for the unfair manner in which you were held in custody by the executive branch,'' Parker said.
Parker said the Departments of Justice and Energy ''have embarrassed our entire nation and each of us who is a citizen of it.''
Why, then, did he find Lee guilty of a felony? He could have dismissed the charges, eh?
Many things are felonies. I commit between 3 and 5 felonies a month, at least that I know of. In this case, "improperly handling secrets" is a felony. Same kind of mishandling that former DOD Secretary William Perry may be charged with. As to why the deal included this single remaining count, the news stories are filled with much verbosity on this. Stuff about fig leaves, sending messages to other secret holders, etc. You claim to be a librarian...look it up. Now, did this particular felony justify 9 months of solitary confinement, loss of employment and retirement benefits, and so on? And will William Perry and others now face comparable treatments? --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.