Posted on 01/19/2023 12:15:44 PM PST by Coronal
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday announced that it has been unable to identify the person who leaked an unpublished draft of an opinion indicating the court was poised to roll back abortion rights.
In an unsigned statement, the court said that all leads had been followed up and forensic analysis performed, but "the team has to date been unable to identify a person responsible by a preponderance of the evidence."
But the attached report suggested the court was not watertight, with some employees admitting they had talked to spouses about the draft opinion and how the justices had voted.
Supreme Court Marshal Gail Curley, who is in charge of the investigation, said that 97 court employees were interviewed and all denied being the leaker. She said it was unlikely the court's information technology systems were compromised.
The report made no mention of whether the nine justices were questioned.
"No one confessed to publicly disclosing the document and none of the available forensic and other evidence provided a basis for identifying any individual as the source of the document," Curley wrote.
"If a court employee disclosed the draft opinion, that person brazenly violated a system that was built fundamentally on trust with limited safeguards to regulate and constrain access to very sensitive information," she added.
The court also consulted Michael Chertoff, who served as Homeland Security secretary during the administration of President George W. Bush. Chertoff wrote in a separate statement that he had recommended several measures the court could take to improve security, including restrictions on the circulation of hard copies of sensitive documents.
Chertoff said he had reviewed the investigation and concluded that it was conducted thoroughly.
"At this time, I cannot identify any additional useful investigative measures," he added.
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Don't worry, I'm sure the special prosecutor report looking at the Biden classified documents situation will not disappoint...
So if they cant identify a leaker, then we can pick our own, and they can’t prove us wrong...
So whose your favorite suspect?
They can track every movement we make each day, but they can’t determine the leak from SCOTUS when they have a limited number of people to investigate? Color me skeptical!
Expect more leaks in the future.
I will repeat so ething I have long said: in Trump’s name was on Epstein’s list it would have been leaked by now.
Somebody won’t be able to keep quiet. They will go out, dig a hole and whisper their guilt. Then the grass over the hole will get it and tell the wind. And the wind will tell everybody.
Somebody won’t be able to keep quiet. They will go out, dig a hole and whisper their guilt. Then the grass over the hole will get it and tell the wind. And the wind will tell everybody.
I've figured from day 1 the leaker was either the soon-to-be non-biologist justice or one of her aids.
Not believable.
“Something” ... darn pudgy fingers and screen typing.
They already proved their uselessness when they refused to hear 2020 election cases that were clearly covered under the Court's 2000 Bush v. Gore decision.
Including the SCOTUS.
Which is now just a rubber stamp for Deep State.
1. Now you know who did it.
2. Now leakers know there’s no enforcement as long as you aren’t obvious about your talking.
NEWS FLASH: Supreme Court announces that they are unable to find their own asses with both hands.
Since they couldn’t find the person with in-house personally perhaps they should get others involved.
And I’m perfectly fine if the U.S. Supreme Court justices start operating with the understanding that they can’t trust each other.
Fire all the staff.
Somebody is lying, others know and won't say.
The honesty and integrity of the Supreme Court system is broken and wholesale replacement of staff has to take place.
And no hires from Yale Law School.
-PJ
Charge all 97
When the leak was new we were told the set of possible leakers was very small and it wasn’t going to be hard to find the leaker.
As predicted, it wasn’t leaked by staff.
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