Arlen Specter: “This report augments and completes the interim report released on March 8, 2000, regarding the Government's…”

“This report augments and completes the interim report released on March 8, 2000, regarding the Government's investigation of espionage allegations against Dr. Wen Ho Lee who pleaded guilty on September 13, 2000 to one felony count of unlawful retention of national defense information. The special Judiciary subcommittee on Department of Justice Oversight, which I chaired in the last Congress, began oversight on the Wen Ho Lee case and several other matters in September 1999, but suspended its review of this case at the request of FBI Director Louis Freeh after Dr. Lee was indicted and jailed on December 10, 1999. I issued the interim report in March 2000 to demonstrate the need for reforms contained in the Counterintelligence Reform Act of 2000, which became law as Title VI of Public Law 106-567 on December 27, 2000. That bipartisan bill, which passed the Senate Judiciary and Select Intelligence committees without a single vote in opposition despite sometimes strong disagreements about certain aspects of the Wen Ho Lee case, corrected many of the flaws in the government's procedures for handling espionage investigations and prosecutions.”