“Having observed Richardson both at the UN and
at DoE, I saw no reason to condemn his performance(s).”

The Wen Ho Lee episode says otherwise. Mr. Lee was an early participant in the ‘under the bus’ act during DoEs witch hunt for Chinese spies on Secty Richardson’s tenure. What Mr. Lee was guilty of was mishandling classified information, which upon investigation and subsequent events at Los Alamos has shown was a wide spread institutional behavior among the staff and administration. It took a serious threat of having their contract pulled pressed by others in the government and not Mr. Richardson that got reform even moving. The federal judge in Mr. Lee’s case, from the bench personally apologized to Mr. Lee for many of the actions of the government in the process.