FACT SHEET:

COMPARING THE

JOHN DEUTCH AND DR. WEN HO LEE CASES

FORMER CIA DIRECTOR JOHN DEUTCH	DR. WEN HO LEE
Former CIA Director Deutch put top secret files on his home computer. Deutch’s home computer was connected through a standard phone line to AOL. Furthermore, Deutch’s computer was not protected by a password and was accessed by someone other than Deutch to view Internet pornography sites.	Dr. Lee did not put any top secret files on his home computer. Dr. Lee’s files were on a work computer protected by two passwords.
Director Deutch erased more than 1,000 files.	Dr. Lee is alleged to have erased files after he had been transferred from the X Division to the less-sensitive T Division and been denied access to classified information -- an entirely appropriate response to his job transfer. In fact, Dr. Lee called the official help line to ask how to erase the files.
Mr. Deutch refused to be interviewed by CIA investigators, despite the fact that he was the former head of the CIA. On February 7, 2000, Mr. Deutch declined to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on his mishandling of classified materials.	Dr. Lee submitted to several interviews and a polygraph examination.
Director Deutch was not only not investigated, he was permitted to keep his CIA security clearance. According to the Los Angeles Times, the CIA sat on the Deutch affair for more than a year before it got around to mentioning it to the Justice Department, which then decided not to prosecute the Deutch.	There is specific, credible evidence that Department of Energy officials originally targeted Dr. Lee for investigation due to racial profiling. There is also specific, credible evidence that intense political pressure on prosecutors preceded the decision to file charges against Dr. Lee.
According to a government official quoted by Reuters, while former CIA Director Deutch was serving as a senior Defense Department official in the early 1990s, he failed a polygraph test about his handling of classified materials.	According to a CBS Nightly News investigation, Dr. Lee passed a polygraph with the highest scores that the former director of the FBI’s polygraph program has ever seen.
CIA Director Deutch was appointed to a special Department of Energy post to review security at the Energy Department. Although Mr. Deutch was later quietly removed from this post, the fact is that Mr. Deutch was once slated by the Energy Department to help review the DOE’s security systems and the circumstances leading to Dr. Lee’s case.	Dr. Lee has been denied bail and is now confined to federal prison.
CIA Director Deutch to this day has a Pentagon security clearance that allows him to work on classified defense contracts, despite having violated security rules by keeping government secrets on home computers connected to the Internet. The clearance permits Deutch to serve as a paid consultant on Defense Department contracts with Raytheon Corp., SAIC Corp. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Deutch, now a professor at MIT, also sits on eight corporate boards.	Dr. Lee has been stripped of his livelihood and is incarcerated indefinitely under the most onerous possible conditions.
According to the New York Times, former CIA Director Deutch recommended a top CIA official for a management job at Citibank at the same time the top CIA official was monitoring an internal investigation into evidence that Deutch had mishandled classified information.	The investigation of Dr. Lee has been characterized by inaccurate, unauthorized leaks to the press by the government and false, self-serving statements by top government officials.
Mr. Deutch was the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and had complete responsibility for maintaining strict security at the Agency and training CIA personnel to safeguard national secrets. Important government officials in Mr. Deutch’s position should be held to the highest possible standards of conduct.	Dr. Lee was an academic who was working in a lab that has been found across-the-board to have "the worst record on security" ever seen by the Counsel to the President.