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In a move that caused major embarrassment to China's authoritarian leadership, a senior colonel in the People's Liberation Army defected in December to the United States while he was in New York with a Chinese military delegation. A federal prosecutor says cypherpunk Jim Bell was threatening federal agents by collecting the sort of personal information about them that they collect on everybody else. The judge has sealed the entire court file, including such public documents as the specific charges. In a case that raises questions about free speech and watching the watchmen, libertarian cypherpunk Jim Bell takes the witness stand to defend his pointed criticism of government and his compilation of profiles on Treasury Department agents. The U.S. Congress's Committee on Government Reform released a report supporting allegations by a former Florida lawyer and political rival of Janet Reno who fled to Australia amid sex and drug charges that he was the victim of politically motivated inquiries by police and government officials.