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ByPaulElias TheAssociatedPress OAKLAND Afederaljudge on Thursday sentenced a California chemical engi- neer to 15 years in prison and fined him $28 million after his rare economic-es- pionage conviction for sell- ing China the technology that creates a white pig- ment. U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey White in Oakland said Liew had "turned against his ad- opted country over greed." A jury previously con- victed the 56-year-old Liew of receiving $28 mil- lion from companies con- trolled by the Chinese gov- ernment in exchange for DuPont Co.'s secret rec- ipe for making cars, paper and a long list of everyday items whiter. White noted that U.S. authorities had managed to trace $22 million of that money to various Singa- pore and Chinese compa- nies controlled by Liew's in-laws before losing the trail. "We'll never get it," White said. "It has been spirited out of the coun- try." Liew and his wife, Christina Liew, launched a small California company in the 1990s aimed at ex- ploiting China's desire to build a DuPont-like factory to manufacture the white pigment known as tita- nium dioxide. The Liews hired retired DuPont en- gineers and, according to the FBI, paid them thou- sands of dollars for sensi- tive company documents laying out a process to make the pigment. CRIME Man sentenced to 15 years for espionage By Eric Tucker The Associated Press WASHINGTON Five Califor- nia men who say they came underpolicescrutinyforinno- centbehaviorsuedtheObama administrationThursdayover an information-sharing pro- gram designed by the fed- eral government to help flag potential terrorist activity in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The men, including an accountant and a photogra- pher of public art, say local law enforcement produced "suspicious activity reports" on them even though they had done nothing wrong. The reports were then dis- seminated in national coun- terterrorism databases and prompted the FBI in some cases to make house visits, run background checks or open up case files on them, the men allege. One plaintiff, an accoun- tant of Egyptian descent, said a "suspicious activ- ity report" was filed about him after he tried to make a bulk computer purchase for work from Best Buy. An- other man, a biotech indus- try worker of Pakistani de- scent, says he aroused suspi- cion simply while waiting for his mother — who was wear- ing a hijab, a formal head covering — outside a train station bathroom. A third plaintiff, 86-year-old James Prigoff, said he was visited at his California home by a member of joint-terrorism task force months after try- ing to photograph a piece of public art in Boston on a nat- ural gas storage tank. "Given my age, I lived through the McCarthy era, so I know how false accusa- tions, surveillance and keep- ing files on innocent people can destroy their careers and lives," Prigoff said in a state- ment. The lawsuit filed in San Francisco challenges the legality of the federally de- signed National Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative — a joint effort of the FBI, the Department of Home- land Security and local and state law enforcement launched after the 9/11 at- tacks. It encourages local police departments, using guid- ance from the federal gov- ernment, to create "suspi- cious activity reports" when encountering people whose behavior raises concerns that they might be engaged in terrorism plots. The re- ports are received, stored and analyzed at dozens of fusion centers nationwide largely operated by state and local governments. According to its website, the program defines suspi- cious activity as behavior that is "reasonably indica- tive" of planning related to terrorism or other criminal activity. The government says the definition was de- veloped with input from pri- vacy and civil rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union. But the suit, brought by the ACLU and other groups, says the program encourages racial and religious profil- ing and sweeps up Ameri- cans engaged in legal behav- ior. It contends that the fed- eral government's standard for reporting suspicious be- havior is overly broad and should be struck down. The complaint names the Justice Department as a defendant because it issued standards governing the types of in- formation that should be in- cluded in suspicious activity reports. A1978JusticeDepartment regulation prohibits the col- lection of intelligence infor- mation unless there's a rea- sonable suspicion of crimi- nal activity. But civil rights groups say the "suspicious activity" program also ex- pressly permits intelligence gathering related to broad categories of behavior — such as requesting a specific hotel room or receiving mul- tiple visitors to that room — where there's no basis to sus- pect criminal activity. "We've long been con- cerned that the federal standards that we're chal- lenging in this lawsuit are too loose because they al- low the reporting of infor- mation even when there's no reasonable suspicion of criminal activity," Linda Lye, senior staff attorney for the ACLU of Northern Cali- fornia, said in an interview. John Cohen, a former homeland security official who helped develop the sus- picious activity reporting program, said the ACLU's lawsuit is ironic because it attacks a program the civil rights group was deeply in- volved in. 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