Clinton 'Troubled' by Wen Ho Lee Case

Sept. 15 -- Hours after Attorney General Janet Reno refused to apologize for the government’s handling of the Wen Ho Lee case, President Clinton said Thursday he was “quite troubled” by prosecutors’ treatment of the former Los Alamos scientist.

“I think that it’s very difficult to reconcile the two positions, that one day he’s a terrible risk to the national security and the next day [prosecutors are] making a plea agreement for an offense far more modest than what had been alleged,” the president said.

“I don’t think that you can justify, in retrospect, keeping a person in jail without bail when you’re prepared to make that kind of agreement. It just can’t be justified,” Clinton said, adding that he’s been troubled by the case for some time.