Six months ago, the county estimated 250 people were living in the condemned complex that posed such a danger that for five weeks Orange County kept a fire truck on stand by at the cost of $4,000 a day.
Poaching, shrinking habitats, disappearing prey and conflicts with humans posed such a threat that conservationists worried that the 10-foot cat would someday become extinct.
At a bail hearing in December, Judge Parker had agreed with the government and found that Dr. Lee, a former scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, posed such a threat that he could not be released under any condition before his trial, which is scheduled for November.
The center is across from a few of the city's public housing towers, where pit bulls and other large dogs have posed such a problem that officials made the controversial decision last year to ban them from similar complexes.
In fact, the gooey spread posed such a threat that during her first few years of recovery from binge eating disorder, between 2006 and 2007, Ms. Gold, 42, a communications specialist in Portland, Ore., couldn't keep it around the house.
In December, a federal judge was told that Wen Ho Lee posed such a threat to national security that if he leaked the nuclear weapons secrets he had allegedly taken from the Los Alamos National Laboratory it could tilt the global balance of power.
Judge Parker's order reversed his ruling of last December, when he agreed with the government that Dr. Lee posed such a threat to national security that he had to be jailed until his trial, scheduled for November.
The president remained uncompromising in his insistence that Iraq posed such a threat to the United States that it must be confronted promptly, and with force if needed.
But he added that the father posed such a threat to national security that the "unavoidable incidental impact" on his wife and youngest son was "justifiable", and dismissed the appeal.
Kabila congratulated Tshisekedi, 55, son of the late opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi, who had posed such a charismatic challenge that after he died in Belgium in 2017, Congo's government did not allow his body to be brought home.
