-Caveat Lector- Sunday December 19 8:10 PM ET Indicted Nuclear Scientist Said Suing U.S. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Wen Ho Lee, the former government physicist accused last week of mishandling top secret nuclear weapons data, will sue the government on Monday for wrongfully portraying him as a spy, CNN reported Sunday. CNN said Lee's lawyers planned to file a lawsuit against the U.S. Justice Department, the FBI and the Energy Department, alleging they violated his privacy and characterized him as a spy. Lee, a Taiwan-born American citizen, was indicted and jailed on Dec. 10 on 59 counts of tampering, altering, and concealing classified information about nuclear weapons. He was not charged with espionage, although he was fired in March from the Los Alamos National Laboratory on suspicion of passing nuclear secrets to China. Lee's Los Angeles-based lawyer Mark Holscher was not immediately available to comment on the reported lawsuit. Chinese-American organizations on Tuesday accused U.S. authorities of using Lee as a scapegoat in its feud with China over nuclear weapons secrets, claiming his detention ahead of trial is evidence of racism. Lee, who has pleaded not guilty to the charges, was ordered detained in jail. His lawyers had offered to put up a $100,000 bond and put Lee under electronic surveillance. The Los Angeles Times, in an editorial last week, accused the FBI and Energy Department investigators of ``tunnel vision'' in its pursuit of Lee. It said both organizations were ``now known to have been astonishingly inept, incomplete, and in their premature public identification of Wen Ho Lee as the prime suspect, grossly prejudicial.'' DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
