A Question Of Profiling

摘要

When it began nearly two years ago, the U.S. government's inquiry into Edward T. Fei's security status seemed routine if slightly puzzling. Fei has long been one of the Energy Department's top experts on nuclear proliferation—a senior if relatively anonymous official who traveled the globe monitoring weapons programs in countries like Iraq and North Korea. So when a security officer grilled him about a seemingly innocuous e-mail, Fei figured his inquisitor was simply looking for some extra work and quickly forgot about it.