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Typically, law enforcement databases have a complete audit trail, that will lead back to whoever the leaker is. They know time and date or the period over which he was poking around, and they’d know who did any searches for that particular individual’s records.
The proper action upon discovering info missing is to notify up the chain of command, not to download documents and hand them out to the press, so the excuse for releasing the other document doesn’t hold water. There’s one reason that’s a possibility for not following protocol, though. If the party who discovered the documents missing was making an unauthorized search, he/she would be admitting a potential firing offense by reporting it. If we discover the party handing out the document was a lawyer who refuses to identify the client who gave it to him, we can be pretty sure of that.