1.   If federal officials had their way, the defendants in three high-profile spy cases would change their pleas of not guilty.

2.   And significant changes seem likely in the way the government investigates spy cases.

3.   And they follow months of congressional criticism of the FBI for its handling of security lapses such as the Robert Hanssen spy case.

4.   As in most spy cases, the evidence is open to interpretation, some experts seeing the glass half full, others half empty.

5.   But even as the administration stepped up its defense of its response to the spy case, the White House took a blow on its trade policy with China.

6.   But he, for one, said he feels untouched by the tensions around the spy case.

7.   By far the most sensational spy cases of recent times, until the China scandal, have featured Americans selling out to the once-dreaded Communists of Moscow.

8.   Critics suspect the administration of burying evidence of the spy case to avoid damaging the relationship Clinton was trying to build with Jiang.

9.   David Wise, a respected author on intelligence matters, has signed with Random House to write a book on the Robert Hanssen spy case.

10.   He assigned Samore, a senior NSC aide in charge of proliferation issues, to assess the damage from the Los Alamos spy case.