https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/04/dianne-feinstein-versus-donald-trump/

“Dianne is like the canary in the mine shaft,” he says.

“The last bastion of bridge building in the Senate may be giving up.”

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Case: Wen Ho Lee

President: Clinton

12/10/1999 (indictment)

Resolution:

Dr. Lee pled guilty on September 13, 2000, to one count of unlawful retention of NDI under § 793

Sentence:

Judge James Parker in Albuquerque sentenced Lee to 278 days, one less than time served.242 He was released the same day he entered his plea.

Summary:

In 2006, the government then settled with Dr. Lee for $1.6 million, with five media organizations—ABC, the Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and the Washington Post— contributing $750,000 to avoid contempt sanctions against their reporters (despite not being defendants in the case).

DATES ARE IMPORTANT

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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

May 17, 1973: Senate Watergate Committee Begins Televised Hearings 40 Years Ago

June 11, 1963…. 50th Anniversary: President John F. Kennedy Gives Televised Speech on Civil Rights to the Nation

August 9, 1973: Richard Nixon becomes the first president to resign

November 22, 1963: President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas Texas launching four days of national mourning

May 17

Televised Watergate hearings begin

On June 17, 1972, five men were arrested for breaking into and illegally wiretapping the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.