The Chinese in America - Iris Chang [241]
363 “This case stinks”: “Wen Ho Lee Reportedly Makes a Deal,” Associated Press, September 11, 2000.
363 Fang Lizhi: San Jose Mercury News, February 2, 2000; George Koo, “Deutch Is Sorry; Lee Is in Jail,” San Francisco Examiner, February 8, 2000.
363 Plato Cacheris: James Glanz, “Scientific Groups Complain About Treatment of Weapons Scientist,” New York Times, March 7, 2000.
363 worked out a plea bargain: James Sterngold, “Wen Ho Lee Will Plead Guilty to Lesser Crime at Los Alamos,” New York Times, September 10, 2000; Marcus Kabel, “U.S., Wen Ho Lee Reach Plea Agreement,” Reuters, September 11, 2000.
364 “terribly wronged”: Wen Ho Lee with Helen Zia, p. 2.
364 “embarrassed our entire nation”: “Lee Free; Federal Judge Apologizes,” Associated Press, September 13, 2000; Vernon Loeb, “Physicist Lee Freed With Apology: U.S. Actions ‘Embarrassed’ Nation, Judge Says,” Washington Post, September 14, 2000, p. A1.
364 “the FBI has been investigating a crime”: San Francisco Chronicle, August 26, 2001.
364 Eddie Liu: E-mail from Eddie Liu, March 14, 1999.
364 “China’s spying, they say”: Vernon Loeb, “China Spy Methods Limit Bid to Find Truth, Officials Say,” Washington Post, March 21, 1999.
365 mysterious $700 withdrawal: Robert Schmidt, “Crash Landing: The New York Times shook the government with its articles on Chinese nuclear-missile espionage. But six months after fingering Wen Ho Lee as a spy, the paper said, in effect, never mind,” Brill’s Content, November 1999.
365 “suspiciously congratulatory”: Ibid.
365 “We’ve got to remember”: Los Angeles Times, May 21, 1999.
365 “He doesn’t distinguish between Chinese foreign nationals”: Annie Nakao, “Spy Scandal Hurts Asian Americans,” San Francisco Examiner, May 26, 1999.
366 “The problem is guilt by racial association”: Ibid.
366 laptop computer out to be repaired: Author interview with Brian Sun.
366 “The Lab treated me as a suspect”: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in-house report given to author.
366 “interested obsessively”: Vernon Loeb, “Espionage Stir Alienating Foreign Scientists in U.S.; Critics of Distrust Fear a Brain Drain,” Washington Post, November 25, 1999.
367 “The term going around now”: Andrew Lawler, “Silent No Longer: ‘Model Minority’ Mobilizes,” Science, November 10, 2000, p. 1072.
367 “subjective, arbitrary and capricious”: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in-house report given to author. The study was conducted by Dick Ling, Joel Wong, Kalina Wong, and several Asian American scientists who wished to remain anonymous. Officials at the laboratory have criticized the study as unreliable because not all Asian American employees were included. “We have never claimed that our studies are absolutely correct since LLNL refused to release the list of APIAs (Asian Pacific Islander Americans) for our studies,” Dick Ling wrote to the author. “We have compiled the APIA list through personal knowledge and employees’ last names.”
367 earned as much as $12,000 less: Ibid.
367 15 to 20 percent: Ibid.
367 “the same appropriate yardsticks”: Ibid.
367 “Subconsciously, you become the enemy”: Author interview with Lawrence Livermore scientist, December 27, 2000.
368 “In hindsight, there are some things I might have done differently”: Wen Ho Lee with Helen Zia, p. 327.
368 not one single Chinese graduate student: Dan Stober, “Lee Case Leaves Ethnic Chinese Shunning Lab Jobs,” San Jose Mercury News, February 20, 2000.
368 half of the ten finalists: Ibid.
368 class action lawsuit: James Glanz, “Weapons Labs Close to Settling a Bias Lawsuit,” New York Times, March 26, 2000.
369 the largest group of foreign students: Vernon Loeb, “Espionage Stir Alienating Foreign Scientists in U.S.; Critics of Distrust Fear a Brain Drain,” Washington Post, November 25, 1999.
369 about half of all foreign scientists with doctorates: