Pg-#4-
According to the BBC, Peter Lee freely admitted to filing a false statement about his trip to China and to leaking classified laser data to Chinese scientists during an earlier trip to China in 1985.
Despite the mountain of evidence in this case, the Justice Department of Washington stepped in to block any prosecution of Mr. Lee.
The viscious slapping on the wrist of Chinese spies has been very widespread under the Clinton administration.
Another Scientist named, Wen Ho Lee, was suspected of espionage and was taken into custody by the FBI on Friday March the 5th. He was released only three days later. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson announced that Mr. Lee was being fired for security breaches, but that no criminal charges would be laid.
This is interesting given that espionage by China was suspected at Los Alamos. Despite the evidence, the White House chose to ignore warnings and return the chief supsect, Wen Ho Lee to his job with all his clearences intact. (April, 1996 New York Times)
During the May 5, 1999 hearing of the Washington D.C. Senate Judiciary comittee, Senator Bob Smith posed the following question to Janet Reno which was never answered, "In 1996 or 1997, agents of the FBI went to the justice to request application for a wiretap on Wen Ho Lee. They were denied the request. The FBI then appealed to Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder, who also denied the request. Obviously, the Justice Department made a major mistake by denying the FBI's request for a wire tap on Wen Ho Lee. Why didn't the investigation move forward?"
(The Answer)