Too Many Scandals

Add another scandal to the Bush Administration list:

A former top-level State Department official illegally took a secret, unauthorized trip to Taiwan last year and met with Taiwanese intelligence officers, according to a criminal complaint.

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According to a criminal complaint submitted by the FBI, Keyser admitted meeting with a Taiwanese intelligence officer on the trip last year, but said he had only flown to Taipei "for sight-seeing purposes."

FBI agents monitoring Keyser's activity in recent months found that he frequently met two Taiwanese intelligence officers, including the officer he met in Taiwan, at Washington-area restaurants, where they would exchange papers.

FBI agents stopped the two Taiwanese officials after a Sept. 4 lunch meeting in Alexandria, and found one of the officers carrying a six-page document titled "Discussion Topics." State Department analysts who reviewed the document said some of its contents were derived from material to which Keyser had access while at the State Department, according to the complaint.