Hi, everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison

podcast. Today, how the FBI has gotten tangled up in numerous cases where it's accused innocent

people of being Chinese spies.

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Today's topic really brought back a lot of memories for me when I was researching it. It

reminds me about a story I'd done maybe one of the first big, big stories I broke as

a young reporter at CBS News. It was the case of Win Ho Lee more than 20 years ago. Let

me begin by telling you a little bit about that. Some of the backstory I was fairly new to

the CBS Washington Bureau at the time and I was trying to break stories or find a way

to contribute and be on TV. And the way it works back then you have to, if you're not assigned

a beat, which I wasn't, you have to come up with some idea that they think is good enough

somewhere up the line that they'll let you work on the story, assign you a producer who

gets the technical aspects of the story done such as editing and helping arrange the crew

for the interviews and so on. And I kept striking out because I would come up with story ideas

every day only to be told, well, that story is under the purview of the Capitol Hill reporter

at the time that was Bob Schiefer. Or that story is kind of under the purview of the White

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