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

[Bill Stewart]

>Tim May wrote:
>...
>> Lee spent 9 months in solitary confinement and lost significant
>> salary and retirement benefits.

That's why it was critical that Lee be guilty of *something*,
at least one charge, so he doesn't have a strong position for
suing the Feds for big bucks individually and organizationally.
He may still have some ability to do that, but I'd be surprised
if the plea bargain deal didn't address it somehow, even if it's
not in the part that's in the press.

>> 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.

Was that Perry, or Deutch?  I think I saw recently that Deutch _is_
getting his wrist slapped somewhat hard now.



				Thanks! 
					Bill
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