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Summary: Fight against injustice
Review: This book is truly bring us to the deep of human being. Dr Lee again in this book prove to anybody that he is not guilty. This book teaches us how to refuse from accusing somebody without strong evidence.
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Summary: Excellent book on how our government can be above the law
Review: This book shows with frightening detail how political motivations can bring down an innocent man. See how our government incarcerated Wen Ho Lee in such a cruel way that Amnesty International protested. See how our government illegaly leaked information to manipulate public opinion against him. Most impressively, see how an AMERICAN withstood all this.Wen Ho Lee and Helen Zia give us a book that is well-written and moves one to shock, fear and embarassment over our executive and judicial branches.
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Summary: Must-read for Chinese!!
Review: This is a book which all Asians/Chinese/American-Chinese should read. Lee not only wrote it straight from his heart, he also wrote it in a clear and non-deceptive manner. He gave us the picture of how he struggled the battle of one feeble, kind-hearted man fought against a country with 2700 million people, enough to feed all mouths of China. The thing is: even though he has suffered the 248 days of solitary confinement, and he was already guilty before proven, he did not demand compensation from all the unfair treatment he got. In the end, he was penalized for a minor operation negligence. The struggle between man and country is also a struggle between the press and privacy and all the politics that hover in the States. It goes to show how far politicians will go in order to secure their power. I believe these people should read George Orwell's Animal Farm again, to remind them. Before the US Law, "All pigs are equal. But some pigs are more equal than the others". Isn't that exactly the caricature of what's happened to Lee? A constant reminder for us of how much discrimination; stereotype still exist even today. Otherwise, there won't be terrorism. Of course, Lee's case reminds us that all the ethnic minorities will be living under horror as long as this kind of narrow-mindedness still persists.
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Summary: Understand How Our System Of Justice Works
Review: This is a must-read, sort of a user's manual for the modern American Justice System, and how the government, specifically the FBI, operates. As of this writing, there are still hundreds, perhaps thousands, of detainees being held without charge after the events of September 11th. Your rights are not of particular relevance to some of our government agencies. Recall the false accusation of the security guard suspected in the Atlanta Olympic bombing, the fiasco at Ruby Ridge where a woman and baby were shot by an FBI sniper, the extraordinary use of force in the Waco debacle, again in the Elian Gonzales saga - the list, unfortunately, seems to be growing. Mr. Lee was held for about 9 months on nebulous charges, mostly in solitary confinement and in shackles, and was finally released under a flimsy plea-bargain agreement after an embarrassed government prosecution team was forced to throw in the towel. One of the prosecutors sued Mr. Lee for defamation of character (!) for being called a liar (which he was), and of course lost the case. Mr. Lee was charged with something like 59 felonies, approximately 37 of which carried the death penalty. On his release, the judge apologized at great length concerning the copious abuses that had been visited upon him by his government. A rabid FBI, and an even more rabid press, crucified a nearly innocent man. I say "nearly innocent" because Mr. Lee as a citizen didn't seem to be in the least interested in the Democratic process, never voted, never got involved in anything outside his little world. He traveled to China and Taiwan, meeting with and giving lectures to Communist nuclear scientists, etc., which seems incredibly naive to me, whether or not it was sanctioned by the AEC and DoD at the time. The security infringement that Mr. Lee pled guilty to, which was a common practice among many working at Los Alamos, was minor compared to the violations of CIA Director Deutch (who went Scot Free). The book would have been a bit more powerful had Mr. Lee avoided the temptation to vent and rant on occasion, allowing the story to carry its own weight and the reader to elicit their own opinions. But I can't blame him. Not a particularly easy read - nevertheless a very important work.
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Summary: A well written book
Review: This is a well written book that reveals the dark side of all three branches of US federal government, especially DOJ, DOE, FBI, and the Congress. It also reminds people that the news media of this country, though enjoy the freedom of speech, is not really fair to minority groups, especially, in this case, the ethnic Chinese.
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Summary: A security witch-hunt and morally bankrupt administration.
Review: This is an excellent book. Anyone that complains the FBI and DOE were unable to convict Dr. Lee because they botched the investigation never worked in the military defense industry. This was clearly a witch-hunt based upon the FBI's and DOE's need to scapegoat someone for leaks to Mainland China. Who better than a CHINESE American. Never mind he was from Taiwan.
Often, engineers and scientists that work in secure facilities are found to have copied secret documents or downloaded secret or confidential information for the sole purpose of trying to get their work done quickly and efficiently. Is it right? No. Is it misguided? Yes. Should they get in trouble? Yes. Does it usually result in jail time and charges of treason? No.
The Clinton administration needed to plug the security breach to the Chinese. They were embarrassed by the disclosure China had our secrets. Once they knew they had the wrong guy did they intervene? No, they couldn't. Politically they had been hurt by previous links of campaign funding from China. They couldn't be seen attempting to protect a Chinese "traitor" or even appear to go soft on him.
By allowing the witch-hunt to go on, the administration permitted an innocent man to go to jail. This is not unusual for the Clinton White House. They didn't just slaughter sacrificial lambs during their tenure; they dined on them with relish and the occasional fava bean.
What makes it worse is - I helped vote them in.
This is one situation where George Bush Senior would not have allowed the travesty to continue. As an ex-CIA man, he would have known this was bull____ at the outset and would have concentrated on finding the real source of the leaks.
Read this book and you will question governmental authority and news reporting. For this reason alone, it should be required reading in high school history curriculum.
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Summary: It couldn't happen here.
Review: This was the first book I've read in a long time that I couldn't put down. I completed it in two sittings. It is very disturbing to me that an ordinary American citizen can be incarcerated for 278 days and never have committed a crime. This book decribes Dr. Lee's view of what happened and how. The local FBI had determined that there was no evidence to suggest that Dr. Lee might be a spy, but the DOE persisted. His description of solitary confinement is upsetting and frightening. It's enlightening and terrifying, but at the same time, it creates respect for the American legal system and the lawyers who fight for justice.
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Summary: It is real, if you are a yellow American.
Review: We love this book. As an Asian American, we are always questioned. It is a cliche, however, we can feel his pain. We have friends (Ph.D. plus postdoctorate) who decide not to pursue their career in national labs because of this case. In the national labs, the biggest ethnic group is chinese. We depend on theses yellow slander eyes. It is our country lose. We want the best defense system in the whole world. We still remember our medical school days when we were told to show our green card on a daily basis (while the professor knew the fact that we were American citizens by birth). Even today, we are still be questioned by our patients about our nationality. Some of our students whom we teach are not comfortable to the fact that they have to get instruction from a yellow face. Even in emergency room, some patients had requested another physicians at the minute they saw our faces, they would choose our student who we supervised over us. Some people will lose if they continue this attitude. This country will lose if it continues to allow this happen again. This is our country. Our ancesters were here in 1800s. We are Americans! We are more American,in the sense of paying tax, we, Asian American as a group, pay more taxes than average white Americans
Also recommended: Asian American Dreams: the Eergence of an American People by author Helen Zia.
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Summary: Aptly titled personal account by the spy himself.
Review: Wen Ho Lee reveals his lapses of stringent government security regulations not all at once, but in bitsize portions, saving the worst (the disposal of the computer tapes) for the end of the book. By his own admission, his behavior was questionable enough that he deserved to be diciplined and possibly fired from Los Alamos Labs. That said, there was no compelling reason to put Mr. Lee on trial for espionage, imprision him for nine months, harass his family, or besmirch his reputation as a loyal American - not unless you agree with Mr. Lee that his trial was based on the racial profiling of Asian scientists and on China bashing in general(either the PRC or Taiwan, take your pick). This compelling personal account by Mr. Lee reveals how a national secruity investigation can be politicized to an obsurd degree where due process and justice are sacraficed to appease interests in Washington. However, this book is not about Washington but rather about the effects of a political witchhunt on a single American family of Chinese descent. In the end, you will respect Mr. Lee's strength of character, his daughters transformation into an advocate, and our country's legal system that in the end did the right thing. I found much to enjoy in this passionately read audio book.
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Summary: Aptly titled personal account by the spy himself.
Review: Wen Ho Lee reveals his lapses of stringent government security regulations not all at once, but in bitsize portions, saving the worst (the disposal of the computer tapes) for the end of the book. By his own admission, his behavior was questionable enough that he deserved to be diciplined and possibly fired from Los Alamos Labs. That said, there was no compelling reason to put Mr. Lee on trial for espionage, imprision him for nine months, harass his family, or besmirch his reputation as a loyal American - not unless you agree with Mr. Lee that his trial was based on the racial profiling of Asian scientists and on China bashing in general(either the PRC or Taiwan, take your pick). This compelling personal account by Mr. Lee reveals how a national secruity investigation can be politicized to an obsurd degree where due process and justice are sacraficed to appease interests in Washington. However, this book is not about Washington but rather about the effects of a political witchhunt on a single American family of Chinese descent. In the end, you will respect Mr. Lee's strength of character, his daughters transformation into an advocate, and our country's legal system that in the end did the right thing. I found much to enjoy in this passionately read audio book.
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