CDR: Re: Lee Free - Judge Apologizes For Government's Conduct

[Tim May]

At 2:06 PM -0700 9/13/00, Eric Cordian wrote:
>http://www.newsday.com/ap/national/ap254.htm
>
>ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- After nine months in solitary confinement, Wen
>Ho Lee pleaded guilty Wednesday to a single count of mishandling nuclear
>secrets and was set free by an apologetic judge who said the government's
>actions ''embarrassed our entire nation.''
>
>...
>
>''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.''

Lee spent 9 months in solitary confinement and lost significant 
salary and retirement benefits.

This makes it a moral requirement that former Defense Secretary 
William Perry face a similar period of confinement and similar loss 
of benefits. Perry has acknowledged downloading top secrets to his 
home computer and leaving codeword material where his family, 
housekeepers, and other visitors could have found and copied it.

There are a couple of cases of other DOD folks in the same straits.

What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.


--Tim May
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