US Gives Moussaoui Classified Documents by Mistake

Reuters ^ | September 26th, 2002 | Reuters

[OldFriend]

This news is weeks old. Not sure why it is out there again today unless it's a second event....which I doubt.

[Mo1]

What MORON is responsible for this??

[Ronin]

Sometimes profanity is just too weak. I had to restrain the urge to pound my head into my keyboard.

Bad for the keyboard, ya know.

[blam]

"Pentagon emails war plan to Saddam by mistake"

Osama discovered disguised as a tourist in pentagon tour group. FBI is baffled.

[Ronin]

Government workers, ya see...

It takes them at least three days to figure out which end of the key to stick in the lock.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Simple. Its the same reason that they are fairly confident that he didn't read them. It was a big document dump, obviously he has a large number of files and documents in the cell. So it may have taken a few days to search through all those and not only find the classified documents, but inventory what was there to make sure any others didn't slip through.

But of course, such a logical explanation hurts the hyperbole of the anti-everything demagogues, seeking to trash these agencies in every way possible, irregardless of who is actually at fault.

[Diddle E. Squat]

In my post #26 I wasn't trying to necessarily imply that ya'll fall into that category, but rather making a broader point.

[kayak]

And a good point you make, too. I was having this vision of a very bare jail cell ..... just a bed, a sink, and a toilet. I didn't think about his handling his own defense and having stacks and stacks of files.

As an aside ...... I find myself wondering how he reacts to the fact that the judge in his case is a female.

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

"Guess this means we have to kill him! (And fire somebody.) "

Why can't we just kill them both?

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

"I wonder if it was really "a mistake"? "

I do too. It's hard to believe there could be such ineptitude with national security at stake.

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

sometimes I wish we'd bring back public stockades

[AAABEST]

Kinda gives "we're from the government and we're here to help" a whole new meaning.

[coloradan]

Caste system alert: Here's a chance for the government to smite an FBI agent for the classified release. But will the FBI agent(s) get as much punishment as an ordinary civilian (with a security clearance) would, for releasing 48 classified documents to an apparent "enemy combatant?" This sort of release gets spies life in prison. But what will the FBI agent get? Are they above the laws the rest of us must follow, or not?

[Jonathon Spectre]

Man, we need to put the government in charge of both the airlines and the economy, seeing as how they do such a flawless, bang-up job on everything else they get ahold of.

Just once more, in bold caps: GOVERNMENT GAVE CLASSIFIED INFORMATION TO TERRORIST IN JAIL; GOVERNMENT PROOFREADER SAYS, "OOPS" AND CALLS GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE UNION TO ENSURE JOB SECURITY

[Illbay]

Great. Now he must quietly disappear never to be seen again.

[glock rocks]

i guess we should consider ourselves fortunate that he wasn't mistakenly given, say, ten lbs. of c4 and detonators, huh?

[BerniesFriend]

actually..i think his time for a public trial has come to an end..sorry dude..but national security comes first..you should not have been tried in public in the first place..

[Let's Roll]

It is just simply that the incompetent flock to the government tit because they can't make it in the real world. Between PC and this kind of thing, they will kill us all.

[PianoMan]

"Hold Muh Documents..."

[Demidog]

The classified documents were given to Moussaoui, the only person charged in the United States for the hijacked plane attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, by mistake over the past few months as part of the evidence turned over to him by federal government prosecutors.

But they promise they'll protect us next time around. On the other hand, classified or not, if it's going to be used as evidence against him, he has a right to view the material, classified or not. Otherwise, any suggestion that he is receiving justice is nonsense.