On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 12:00:29PM -0800, James A. Donald wrote:

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At 01:29 PM 11/19/2000 -0500, George@orwellian.org wrote: Found in Usenet:

# I don't know if Reno is a traitor, but consider this: # Between 1992 and 1997, there were approximately 2,500 # national security wiretaps requested by the FBI. Only one # of these 2,500 requests was turned down: Wen Ho Lee's! And # this turndown took place while Wen Ho Lee was still # downloading nuclear secrets from Lost Alamos.

True/False?

Any new, important and surprising fact reported on usenet without source or explanation is almost certainly a lie.

In general you'd be right, but this might be an exception. Check out the annual wiretap reports on epic.org. (Admin office of US Courts publishes them.) -Declan