| Show WoridNational Standard-Examine- r Thursday May 27 Reno: Spy issue should have come to me INSIDE: Chinese official meets with Utah business people13A Tie Assoca’ed Press Washington General Attorney Janet Reno said today Justice Department and FBI subordinates should have come to her two years ago when they disagreed over whether to wiretap a nucjear weapons scientist suspected of spymg for China ‘AVhere there is something serious where (FBI Director) Louis Freeh disagrees with the findings (of Justice officials) it should be dismissed at my level” Reno told herweekly news conference Congression was stymied today in efforts to move quickly on legislation to beef up security at nuclear weapons labs and impose new restrictions on technology exports in the aftermath of a Republicans denied they were trying to stifle open debate But GOP leaders temporarily postponed action on the package in an effort to work things out Reno explained that when the FBI first sought to wiretap Wen Ho Lee a Taiwanese-boscientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico the appheauon for a warrant was rejected by Justice’s Office of Intelligence Policy and Review “The facts presented m 1997 were insufficient to support a finding of probable cause” to believe that Lee was knowingly engaged m clandestine intelligence-gatherin- g on behalf of a foreign power Reno said That is the standard required by the I oreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 and by the Constitution Reno explained that then-As- - House report on alleged Chinese espionage Debate was scheduled in both the House and Senate on a raft of measures prompted by Tuesday's report by a special bipartisan House panel But the debate got off to a contentious partisan start in the House when the senior Democrat on the espionage panel Rep Norman Dicks of Washington accused Republican leaders of blocking consideration of some of the panel’s recommendations that are supported by the admmstration Instead he said the House was only being allowed to debate Republican-endorse- proposals d “It’s an insult" Dicks said “I am very disappointed that the Republican leadership has chosen to take a partisan approach to implementing our report” 5A Utah’s three congressmen angered by Chinese report sistant I BI Director John Lewis complained about that decision to her and she asked Justice’s Office for National Security to review the decision Daniel Seikaly of that office agreed with the earlier decision and his ruling was transmitted to the FBI Reno said Seikaly never took the matter up with Reno or with the deputy attorney general she said “I assumed since I did not hear again from the FBI that it was resolved to their satisfaction” Reno said Indeed a senior FBI official has said the bureau itself doubted it had sufficient evidence for a warrant Reno repeated she has not thought of resigning and said she was told by White House Counsel Charles Rulf that she has President Clinton’s confidence SLT a senior member ot the House National Security Com- sen Press The Aasocwred ve m yt 1 LAKL CITY - Utah’s mittee The report chronicles 20 years of Chinese espionage in pursuit three Republican congressmen denounced the Clinton administration following release of a r port detailing Chinese theft of US nuclear secrets Rep Merrill Cook asked Wednesday for the resignation of Attorney General Janet Reno And Rep Chris Cannon called for changes in the “national security team” They and Rep Jim Hansen all characterized the spying detailed m the congressional report as the most damaging leak of nuclear information in US history “This is the most serious national security challenge we will face in our lifetimes" said Han -- of U S nuclear secrets and is serv ing as a springboard for w hat promises to be a lengthy review by Congress of what China learned and how The report said the informa- tion stolen helped modernize China’s nuclear program and that some US weapon design technology may end up being incorporated m China’s next generation of nuclear warheads Ihe report concluded that the thclts ol mlormation about the Uniied States’ most advanced thermonuclear weapons “almost certainly continue to the present ” US warned of China’s efforts in ’80s t The Associated Press ' V— WASHINGTON - The tary intelligence assessment was short and to the point China was improving its nuclear warheads by stealing technology from the United States The year: 1984 In language similar to that used m the Cox report 15 years later the Defense Intelligence Agency stated that China is “now f mili- 1 ? 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