Lonnie Henley being probed for defending Montaperto

Lonnie Henley, the senior intelligence official responsible for East Asia, is now under investigation for defending Chinese spy Ronald Montaperto and for criticizing the FBI concerning the case.

"Because Mr. Henley works directly for Mr. Negroponte as part of the National Intelligence Council, and FBI counterintelligence also is nominally part of the DNI oversight, US government officials say the Henley e-mail could be viewed as an officially sanctioned critique of the FBI and thus an appropriate subject for internal review and possible disciplinary action," Bill Gertz reports in the Washington Times.

The DNI ombudsman for analysis, Nancy Tucker, probably will have to recuse herself from the case because she once dated the spy.