clearance and a year later, he was dismissed. he sighed the university of california at the time who ran los alamos, and he lost that suit. that is the latest. well, obviously, the question is how much of a threat is this. joining me is cnn national security contributor fran townsend who is also an external board adviser to the ci, and the homeland security department. fran, thank you so much. what do you make of the case? well, suzanne, going back to the 1990s there was the wendel key case where he was alleged to give restricted data to china, but this data that the couple were trying to pass were the most secret and the most important secrets that we have in the nuclear program, so there is a tremendous effort since that wen lee ho case, to monitor those who have access through informants and try to identify the spies before they are able to pass the information, and it