The element of fear is exaggerated ... and I think that point is going to become clearer if the government fails to sort out the economy in the next few months.

We are on the brink ... and anyone who thinks the political situation is manageable at this rate of economic deterioration is going to be shocked.

We fear this 'obstruction of justice' procedure is a judicial device for the government to yet again settle some scores with the privately-owned media and at the same time subject them to state censorship.

The government resorts to fear itself. ... Irrational fear is not a legal basis to denying the next step in treatment.

Political asylum is granted when you've proven to the government that you have a well founded fear of persecution in your home country. And almost everybody does not get it.

The defense attorneys have a well founded fear, especially considering how the government has handled this up until now, that Wen Ho Lee is going to go home, they're going to debrief him, then the government is going to run into court and say 'We don't think he's been truthful, he's violated the plea agreement' and throw him back in jail,