My Country Versus Me, by Wen Ho Lee

My Country Versus Me: The First-Hand Account by the Los Alamos Scientist Who Was Falsely Accused of Being a Spy, by Wen Ho Lee. Dr. Lee details his interrogation, arrest, incarceration and exculpation in this gripping narrative. He refrains from going into detail on the political factors involved in his case. The villains here are an over zealous FBI and a hard charging Justice Department under Janet Reno. The narrative seems to have been largely written by Helen Zia who does a capable job. However, some descriptive and analytical passages seem too embellished with literary imagery to tell the first-person tale of a physicist in this situation. Included is also some regretable politically correct self-pity stemming from Dr. Lee's ethnicity. Yet on the whole the book is a worthwhile read that demonstrates that a government run amok and in the hands of political hacks is capable of doing a great deal of damage to individual freedom.

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