I missed this detail. Do you have a source for more info? (No doubting you, just want to learn more).
Justice Department, Clinton's Justice Department
The following is from an anti-Bush site I found while Googling.. It references the WaPo, but I will not register. I have found several references to this, but I cannot confirm or deny the truthfulness of it.
March 2000 - An FBI agent, reportedly angry over a glitch in Carnivore that has somehow mixed innocent non-targeted emails with those belonging to Al Qaeda, destroys all of the FBI's Denver-based intercepts of bin Laden's colleagues in a terrorist investigation. [Source: The Washington Post, May 29, 2002]
BTW-found this article. A must read with our hindsight.
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/06/05/curbing.terrorism.02/
Looking at headlines for that time period, I found an interesting story:
See post #590. Very interesting.