Dan Burton: “It is staggering,'' he said. ``I am still in shock here,'' a senior analyst and nuclear weapons expert at the Natural…”

“It is staggering,'' he said. ``I am still in shock here,'' a senior analyst and nuclear weapons expert at the Natural Resources Defense Council said. He said, ``If someone had access to Lee's,'' that is the fellow who was involved in the espionage, allegedly involved, ``unclassified computer, this could be all over the world.'' What he was talking about, this was this Mr. Wen Ho Lee, took this top secret information and he transferred it from a top secret computer into a non-top secret computer, where all you had to do was put in a password and you could get every one of our nuclear secrets that he had available to him. This has been going on for some time. Norris's colleague, physicist Matthew G. McKenzie said that ``unauthorized access to those programs, so-called legacy codes, used to simulate warhead detonation, would represent an unprecedented act of espionage in his scope. Get this. The espionage in the Manhattan Project, that was right after we discovered the nuclear bomb that ended World War II, the espionage in the Manhattan Project would pale, would pale, in comparison.'' This is so much more damaging. We are focusing everything right now in the media almost on Kosovo, and our heart goes out to the people who are suffering over there. But this espionage endangers every man, woman and child in this country if we ever go to war with Communist China.”