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SHRED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 08:37 AM
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Victory For Wen Ho Lee
Victory For Wen Ho Lee
Posted on Jun 2, 2006

The five media heavies who shamelessly promoted the government’s lies about the Los Alamos scientist chose to settle today rather than reveal their government sources.

Lee was savaged by a media fueled by government rumors that he was spying for China, an accusation he was never officially charged with. Lee was imprisoned in solitary confinement for nine months in 1999/2000 and ultimately received an apology from the judge who heard his case.

CONTINUED: http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20060602_victory_wen_ho_lee/



I recall how the RW'ers were going "off the charts" with their presumed guilt on this one, and associating Clinton too it.
ooops.

That darn "librul media".
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/02/AR2006060201060.html?referrer=emailarticle


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rfranklin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 08:39 AM
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1. But he won this settlement under Bush...mighty defender of rights...
See how easily one can rationalize anything?
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Pierre.Suave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 08:42 AM
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2. Good for him.
I am glad he has "won."
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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 08:45 AM
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3. Weren't they smearing Clinton with it too? Anyway, Clinton smacked NYT
Edited on Sat Jun-03-06 08:59 AM by robbedvoter
back in 2000 for their coverage
(Page 7 of 16)
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/24/politics/24CTEX.html?pagewanted=7&ei=5070&en=eb7cc0c2a676d1f3&ex=1149480000
December 24, 2000
THE CLINTON LEGACY
An Interview With Bill Clinton
I just wonder if you think there is any way
that, over the last eight years, somehow
America could have had the best of you
without getting the worst of you, or is it all
sort of wrapped up in one package?
A. Oh, that's a judgment for somebody else to
make.
Q. You don't want to take a ... A. Yes. You
guys were wrong about Whitewater. I wish we
had the - that Gertz piece was ridiculous,
absurd on its face. I wish we could have had the great New
York Times
without that. It was like Wen Ho Lee, Chapter 1. I wish we
could have had
it. (Laughter.) But we couldn't. So we still got The New
York Times. Is
the country better off for having The New York Times ?
Absolutely it
is. Are we better off having The New York Times ? Of
course we are.
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/24/politics/24CTEX.html?pagewanted=7
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 08:50 AM
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4. Yes, they tied all the spying to Clinton
It was Clinton that sold secrets to the Chinese and allowed them to develop nuclear weapons, etc (never mind that China became a nuclear power 7 years into the Reagan regime!)

It was Al Gore that had secret meeting with Chinese monks that were really spies brainwashing him for nuclear information (never mind that it was Republican fundraiser Katrina Leung that was the real double agent for China)
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dsc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 08:52 AM
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5. Good for him
If the papers refuse to name sources then they should pay when the sorces slander as they did here.
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