He was never charged with espionage, but after he was fired, investigators discovered that he had downloaded and copied vast amounts of nuclear data onto portable computer disks, and some of them were missing.
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He also agreed that he would cooperate with investigators and explain why he downloaded a huge amount of nuclear data and what he did with seven computer tapes of the information that have disappeared.
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Only very rarely would it be appropriate to reveal information of the three types whose disclosure has been expressly criminalized by Congress : communications intelligence, nuclear data, and the identity of US intelligence operatives.
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After he was fired, investigators discovered that he had downloaded vast amounts of secret nuclear data from the classified computer network at Los Alamos and copied it onto portable tapes, some of which are now missing.
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"If the Pakistanis feels isolated and are in need of economic aid from Iran, exchanges of nuclear data between the two countries will become possible, " said Yaacov Vertzberger, a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Lee was arrested on Dec . 10 and charged in a 59-count indictment with transferring vast amounts of nuclear data from a classified computer system into an unsecure system, and then copying the material onto portable computer tapes.
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Lee was arrested Dec . 10 and charged in a 59-count indictment with transferring vast amounts of nuclear data from a classified computer system at Los Alamos into an unsecure system and then copying the material onto portable computer tapes.
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In addition to the unauthorized transfers of nuclear data into an unclassified computer system at Los Alamos, government investigators now believe that Lee also copied the nuclear secrets onto computer tapes and took those tapes out of the lab, officials said.
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Some Asian and Asian-American scientists at both laboratories also claim that they have been unfairly singled out as possible security risks after the arrest of Wen Ho Lee, a former Los Alamos scientist who has been charged with mishandling nuclear data.
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Lee, a former scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, is being prosecuted on charges of illegally transferring and copying secret nuclear data from the laboratory, an offense some Justice Department critics have argued is similar to what Deutch may have done.
