FBI Says Files In Leak Cases Are ‘Missing'

The New York Sun ^ | December 27, 2006 | Josh Gerstein

[Cplus]

The FBI is missing nearly a quarter of its files relating to investigations of recent leaks of classified information, according to a court filing the bureau made last week....

[Natural Law]

It has to be an inside job. There are many within the bureaucracy that are openly hostile toward the Bush administration and the changes and reforms initiated in the wake of 9-11.

[paratrooper82]

Hillary Clintoon has them and is using them to make determinations on who she wants in her administration. The leaker's will get first choice.

"File gate"

[dforest]

Obviously there are people within the FBI and CIA that are not working for Bush. They never have been. Get rid of them. If the files are missing, surely they have an idea of who had access to them or who might have. Maybe get rid of Alberto Gonzales too. Ashcroft was better than him.

[prairiebreeze]

The President couldn't fire career NSACIAFBI employees. They are civil service workers and hence, very difficult to pry out of their positions.

As for your calling the POTUS ignorant, a better word might be idealistic, and always hoping for people to change.

But GW Bush is not ignorant.

[FMBass]

“Your 2 Posts on this thread are splendid examples..”



Concur!

[La Enchiladita]

Maybe get rid of Alberto Gonzales too. Ashcroft was better than him.

Bump that!!

[RightWingConspirator]

Mineta was adamant that "racial profiling" of Moslems would not take place and he, not Congress, put into place the airport security rules.

[dforest]

I'll add this too. Some of them may be civil service workers, but if they are incompetent or deliberatly exposing sensitive info...... then I can't see why they could not be terminated out of their jobs.

[Fedora]

"That's an amazing number," an academic who has studied the FBI's record-keeping procedures, Athan Theoharis of Marquette University, said in an interview yesterday. "These are very sensitive investigations. ... They could be called to account for whether they are monitoring reporters. These are records that should be handled very well."

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One frequent critic of government database programs, Barry Steinhardt of the American Civil Liberties Union, said that record makes it understandable that a substantial proportion of the leak files would be mislaid.

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Mr. Theoharis, a professor emeritus of history, said that in the 1960s the FBI used procedures known as "do not file" and "summary memoranda" to avoid placing files in the central records system. As a result, he said, the bureau would tell judges or members of Congress that searches turned up no records, when files actually existed in a secondary system.

"There's no reason to think they're not doing the same thing today," Mr. Theoharis said. "I don't want to sound conspiratorial but I don't think one can discount this."

Theoharis has made a career out of helping left-wing groups file FOIA requests and perpetuating the myth that various Communist front groups were innocent victims of the FBI. The fact that he and an ACLU spokesman were interviewed so prominently for this article suggests to me that the ACLU's PR machine is in full-court-press mode on this case.

[Chode]

the FBI said it identified 94 leak investigations since 2001, but that the investigative files in 22 of those cases "are missing" and cannot be located. "There is no physical slip of paper on the shelf which indicates that the file has been charged out to a particular FBI employee, so therefore there is no way of knowing where the file may actually be," an official in the bureau's records division, Peggy Bellando, wrote in a December 22 declaration.

thats ok with you???

[oceanview]

but having control of the DOJ is paramount - since that is the agency that you have to use to prosecute the "moles" in the other agencies, whom you can't get rid off.

[farlander]

... or you decide to eradicate the problem. It's not like it can't be done. Just got to be a little more... indiscriminate.

[the Real fifi]

Certainly, but Gertz said in his book "enemies" that the FBI file system is still inadequate.

[PhilipFreneau]

>>>As for your calling the POTUS ignorant, a better word might be idealistic, and always hoping for people to change.<<<

That is where we differ. I believe it is ignorant to think evil people will become good if they are appeased.

[thinking]

In the days that I was around classified docs, we had to sign for them....whatever happened to that requirement?

[mickie]

President Bush really made a mistake when he failed to fumigate the NSA, CIA and FBI after he took office. Those agencies are loaded down with Clintonista moles who are doing great harm to our country. They need to be identified and terminated before they can do any further damage.

Amen to that!

[Fedora]

I know that in the 1990s a major computer contractor was in the process of helping the Bureau revise its computerized filing system. Someone working on that project told me there was a huge mess to work with. Some more recent info:

Anatomy of an IT disaster: How the FBI blew it

[thinking]

Maybe Hillery has a file on GW.....?

[the Real fifi]

It's time the FBI was out of the counter intelligence business. They are utterly incompetent to do this work.

[Cementjungle]

This is unbelievable! How did they fail to lose the other 3/4 of the information? What a bunch of incompentent bunch of fools!