Lee’s Charge ‘Bunk,’ Richardson Says
Energy Secretary Bill Richardson accused Wen Ho Lee, a former government scientist suspected of giving China details about America’s nuclear arsenal, of trying to use the “race card” to defend his actions. He also said Lee’s claim that top-secret weapons code work is often done on unclassified computers was “pure bunk.” Lee, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Taiwan, was fired from his top-secret job at the weapons laboratory at Los Alamos, N.M., last March for security violations after being investigated on suspicion of providing China information in the 1980s about a key U.S. nuclear warhead.
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