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357 “a paper with Chinese writing on it”: Norman Matloff, “Democracy Begins at Home,” Asian Week, July 14, 1995.
357 “yellow high-tech peril”: Sarah Lubman and Pete Carey, “False Spying Charges Have Happened Before: Valley Chinese-Americans Complain Allegations Have Destroyed Careers,” San Jose Mercury News, June 23, 1999.
358 “It happened so fast”: Correspondence from Chih-Ming Hu to author.
358 “When I went to high-tech company job interviews”: Ibid.
358 “I was scared”: Jonathan Curiel, “Widespread Support for Jailed Scientist: Chinese Americans Eager to Help Lee,” San Francisco Chronicle, January 10, 2000.
358 “I was 100 percent innocent!”: Chih-Ming Hu, March 16, 1999.
359 indicted him for allegedly transferring nuclear secrets: Vernon Loeb and David Vise, “Physicist Lee Indicted in Nuclear Spy Probe,” Washington Post, December 11, 1999.
359 fifty-nine counts: The New Yorker, October 2, 2000.
359 more than 260 agents: Vernon Loeb and David Vise, “Physicist Lee Indicted in Nuclear Spy Probe,” Washington Post, December 11, 1999. Two hundred FBI agents were used just to watch Lee twenty-four hours a day.
359 548 addresses: Vernon Loeb, “Ex-Official: Bomb Lab Case Lacks Evidence,” Washington Post, August 17, 1999.
359 passed it with flying colors: Robert Scheer, “Was Lee Indicted, and Not Deutch? Spy scandal: Look closer and you can see the politics behind the case,” Los Angeles Times, February 8, 2000.
360 “Do you think the press prints everything that’s true?”: Unclassified transcript of FBI interview 004868-004950.
360 “Do you know who the Rosenbergs are?”: Wen Ho Lee with Helen Zia, My Country Versus Me: The First-Hand Account by the Los Alamos Scientist Who Was Falsely Accused of Being a Spy (New York: Hyperion, 2001), p. 81. Also, transcript of FBI interview 004868-004950.
360 “for my convenience, not for any espionage purposes”: Wen Ho Lee with Helen Zia, p. 122. For more details, see pp. 119-22, 323-26.
361 blew a sheaf of documents: William J. Broad, “Files in Question in Los Alamos Case Were Reclassified,” New York Times, April 15, 2000.
361 reclassified the downloaded PARD files: Ibid. It is not illegal to copy PARD files, nor is it a security violation.
361 Deutch had actually removed top-secret files: Daniel Klaidman, “The Nuclear Spy Case Suffers a Meltdown,” Newsweek, August 30, 1999.
361 seventeen thousand pages of documents: James Risen, “CIA Inquiry of Its Ex-Director Was Stalled at Top, Report Says,” New York Times, February 1, 2000.
361 “alien resident” housekeeper: Robert Scheer, “CIA’s Deutch Heedlessly Disregarded Security,” Los Angeles Times, February 29, 2000.
361 neither encryption nor a secure phone line: Ibid.
361 important memory cards: Ibid.
361 deleting more than a thousand files: New York Times, February 1, 2000.
362 refused to give interviews: Ibid.
362 “three crimes we knew were sure-fire violations”: Bill Gertz, “Pentagon Probe Targets Deutch,” Washington Times, February 17, 2000.
362 recommended Nora Slatkin: James Risen, “Deutch Probe Looks at Job,” New York Times, February 12,2000.
362 “Deutch can get away with anything”: Ling-chi Wang, “Wen Ho Lee & John Deutch: A Study of Contrast and Failure of Leadership,” public electronic mail statement, February 9, 2002.
363 “Deutch is a leading member”: Robert Scheer, “Was Lee Indicted, and Not Deutch? Spy scandal: Look closer and you can see the politics behind the case,” Los Angeles Times, February 8, 2000.
363 “built on thin air”: “U.S. Lacks Evidence in China Spy Probe, Ex-Aide Says,” Reuters News Report, August 17, 1999.
363 shackled in chains: “Amnesty International Protests Solitary Confinement, Shackling of Dr. Wen Ho Lee,” public statement of Amnesty International, August 16, 2000; Hendrik Hertzberg, “In Solitary,” The New Yorker, October 2, 2000.
363 “While