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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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Only if you're here illegally. ;-)
Unacceptable.
Uhh... it's the CIA.
Extensive background checks and regular poly's for all.
They could poly everyone in the building if they wanted to... at any time. The FBI just isn't properly motivated.
These individuals need to be indicted and prosecuted for those crimes and those individuals who wanted to close the investigation be fired for incompetence and dereliction of duty.
We've had as a country with this type of investigators. Disgusting is to nice of word to use!!
Well. Isn't that special?
It seems as if we have a 'civil war' within our inteliigence and law enforcement agencies.
I'm sure Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi will do everything they can to get to the bottom of this mess.
FBI is turning into a pussy cat if and organization instead of a lion!
We had the House. We had the Senate. We have the Presidency, and nothing was done for 6 years. Are we going to start now to clean out this mess? Of course not.
Not completely, they'd be more than happy to ream you or me for some perceived offense.
jerks!
Only if you are a democrat or donate heavily and only to democrats.
Remember what happened to Microsoft!
Gates quickly got the message and started donating more to the rats.
"I am starting to think there really is some sort of cabal within our own government working against us"
Fat Ted and like minded Communist
Truer words were never spoken.
I think the Justice Department should order the breakup of the monopolistic United States of America into its component companies errr... states.
Fat Ted and like minded Communist
Right. And others, possibly even more sinister and....smarter.
They are very diverse and politically corrected.
I think that's why many of us are feeling really beaten these days.
Mostly these Civil Service people cannot be touched. They can only, at best, be shunted aside to nothing duties in a closet somewhere with a pay raise, and even then they cannot be made to divulge information for investigations and likely no one else in the office will cooperate either. The problem is that the bureaucracy is the Permanent Democrat Establishment and the Republicans can never control it. It makes intelligence difficult because the CIA et al will not report intelligence that is politically uncorrect and will leak anything that can be construed so as to damage Republicans. As the Democrats are allied with the Islamists and anyone else who hates Republicans or America, When Republicans are in office they have to share the rule with the Enemy, even in wartime. It is as OBL had his representatives right there openly in our government.
They have not been penetrated by socialists. The inherent makeup of a government agency is socialist. They can be temporarily "penetrated" by proAmericans and conservatives, can even have such placed as their bosses, but because the "boss" can't actually fire anyone, his staff works against him and everything he stands for.
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LOL....you read my mind!
Then we had Bush come along and I thought, "great a strong, give 'em hell kind of guy. Here we go this country is going to get back on the right track." And what did we get? Oh, the "new tone in Washington," which means bending over and grabbing the ankles for the media and the democrats.
I have never been as pessimistic as I am now, never. I shudder to think what we are leaving our children and our grandchildren. If we lose this war or cut and run we are finished as a superpower, we are done period.
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