Wen Ho Lee was charged under the Atomic Energy Act and the Federal Espionage Act.

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That would turn out to be thehigh-water mark of the government's three-year pursuit of Wen Ho Lee.

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This was 2000, when Los Alamos was threatened by forest fires and had just been racked by the Wen Ho Lee nuclear secrets scandal.

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Eventually, they reduced the list to one man: Wen Ho Lee.

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The reorganization is in part a reaction to the case of Wen Ho Lee -- the scientist fired from the Los Alamos National Laboratory -- and the criticism of the government's handling of it.

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On the list was Wen Ho Lee.

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Thanks to legislation that arose from congressional investigations into an earlier, major security breach at Los Alamos allegedly involving a physicist at the lab named Wen Ho Lee a new, semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has been created.

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The Wen Ho Lee saga began in 1995, when a walk-in source gave the CIA a document from the People's Republic of China that claimed Chinese weapons designers had obtained specific and highly classified details of an American nuclear warhead known as the W-88.

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On the other hand, Richardson's foreign policy experience was at the United Nations, the congressional tour of duty left numerous votes that the opposition's research boys can sift through and the Cabinet post got him in hot water when he fired Wen Ho Lee from a nuclear research facility only to see the case against Lee fall apart.

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The man in question is Wen Ho-lee, a Taiwan-born scientist who worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

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