Legal Opinion
Lee v. United States Department of Justice
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided October 9, 2003No. CIV.A. 99-3380(TPJ)PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM & ORDER
JACKSON, District Judge.
According to his second amended complaint, plaintiff Wen Ho Lee is an ethnic Chinese, born in Taiwan, who holds a doctoral degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas. He immigrated to the United States in 1969 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1974. Since 1978 Dr. Lee has worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico on the design of U.S. nuclear weapons systems. Until recently he possessed a security clearance at the highest level.
In 1995 U.S. intelligence and law enforcement authorities began to suspect that the…
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