Posted on 01/10/2007 9:50:45 AM PST by aculeus
A lack of cooperation from one or more intelligence agencies led the FBI to abandon several recent criminal investigations into leaks of classified information to the press, records obtained by The New York Sun indicate.
In January 2005, an FBI official asked the Justice Department to close three pending leak inquiries because the "victim agency" repeatedly refused to assist the probes. The FBI's contact at the agency "has been uncooperative with the investigating field office and on numerous occasions failed to return phone calls or provide the case agent with requested documents pertinent to the investigation," the memo said, adding that the agency "cancelled personnel interviews, security briefings and meetings at the last minute and failed to reschedule for another time."
"None of the cases can proceed without the cooperation of the substantive unit at the victim agency, therefore the FBI considers all logical leads covered," the FBI official wrote. Within days or weeks, the cases were closed.
The memo, which was among more than 300 pages of leak investigation files released to the Sun this week under the Freedom of Information Act, was heavily redacted by the FBI, which removed the name of the writer, the identity of the intelligence agency involved, and nearly all details about the alleged leaks.
The documents provide a rare window into the Bush administration's effort to combat leaks of classified information that the administration has said are damaging national security in wartime. "At some point in time, it would be helpful if we can find somebody inside our government who is leaking materials, clearly against the law, that they be held to account," the president said at a press conference last month. "Perhaps the best way to make sure people don't leak classified documents is that there be a consequence for doing so."
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You would be behind bars.
I think the CIA needs cleaned out and started over from scratch. No one hired unless they pass a lie detector test and extensive background search. That place has become RAT infested!
Only one guy can get the ball rolling on that.
I believe our intelligence agencies are managed by career bureaucrats for whom the job and perquisites are primary, and the mission secondary. Many of these bureaucrats appear to be liberal Democrats who detest the Bush Administration and its policies and have no interest in promoting them. One suspects that they spend their days in meetings, or by creating purposefully obfuscatory documents of appalling complexity and little functional use other than to provide evidence of work product. They leak to the media because their jobs are never truly threatened. They can wait out any Administration, because it will one day be gone. They, on the other hand, will be there forever.
So, I can go and commit a crime, blow the police off, refuse to cooperate and then the case will be closed? /sarc
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Good question....I wondered the same thing.
Recently read that the spy agency's are having a difficult time filling employment slots with confident personal.
Sounds like a crock of bull to me. There would be plenty of special forces personal who would easily fill the slots.
There is a freeper that co-authored a book called Shadow Government, I believe.
I haven't read it...but I think that is the jist of the book...that Pres. Bush has a whole "shadow" government out to destroy him...and I guess us.
I think you should be able to figure that one out. The victim agency - or agencies - are probably the CIA, State Department, Congress, Defense Department and probably the Justice Department itself.
The leaks, Berger's absolution, and the whole "I'm not firing Rumsfeld" thing, I am going out on a limb and saying that I am not going to be voting for George W. Bush for President in 2008.
Sound like Castro and Cuba.
I think if you have enough money and influence, that is possible. Take a look at the Ramsey case in Colorado.
We'll never be taken seriously by the rest of the world, much less our own citizens, if we cannot police ourselves. This is the disgusting results of big government.
Oh, I get it......I just didn't read it the right way...gosh, I'm not on the ball today!
Thanks!
Assuming he's serious about finding the leakers, the President should have the necessary authority to order the cases reopened, and issue an order that anyone who fails to cooperate with the probes is to be immediately removed from duty or, if possible, fired.
This should lead to outrage on the part of all concern. The President should force the agencies in question to cooperate, or start firing people.
This is fair, but would a leak investigation by the FBI be any more damaging than the information already leaked?
There are two cabals, Democrats and Republicans.
Actually, it's a lot like the KGB under Gorbachev. Who cares what's happening in the Baltics, as long as I get my Starka vodka and my vacation at the Black Sea?
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