FBI Says Files In Leak Cases Are ‘Missing'

[kpete]

FBI Says Files In Leak Cases Are ‘Missing'
By JOSH GERSTEIN
Staff Reporter of the Sun
December 27, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO — The FBI is missing nearly a quarter of its files relating to investigations of recent leaks of classified information, according to a court filing the bureau made last week.

In response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, the FBI said it identified 94 leak investigations since 2001, but that the investigative files in 22 of those cases "are missing" and cannot be located. "There is no physical slip of paper on the shelf which indicates that the file has been charged out to a particular FBI employee, so therefore there is no way of knowing where the file may actually be," an official in the bureau's records division, Peggy Bellando, wrote in a December 22 declaration.

"That's an amazing number," an academic who has studied the FBI's record-keeping procedures, Athan Theoharis of Marquette University, said in an interview yesterday. "These are very sensitive investigations. ... They could be called to account for whether they are monitoring reporters. These are records that should be handled very well."

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[porphyrian]

1. The FBI doesn't have security cameras on their important files?

Stupid or bullshit?

[NewJeffCT]

2. They're programmed to follow only Democrats

The cameras, that is.

[porphyrian]

5. Scary how that may not be a joke at all. - n/t

[NewJeffCT]

6. I was only half-joking

I have no doubt that regular DU posters (and folks on similar left of center sites) have files on them somewhere.

[LuckyLib]

14. Anyone present at any antiwar rally in the 70's already has a file.

We're just watching it grow more rapidly these days!

[tavalon]

23. I don't doubt that for a minute

My friends like to call me Gitmo Girl and if they know, the government surely knows that I'm, as you so tastefully put it, left of center.

[Joe Chi Minh]

24. The same bias as the election machines: to the detriment of truth,

as sought by the people and the Democratic politicians they look to represent them? A curious kind of self-protection racket, suborning the panoply of State itself to further their own party-political insterests.

I believe Blair's been engaged in the same kind of subornation here in the UK, using the civil service, judiciary and treasury to the same end. Thatcher suborned the courts to mete out "supermarket justice" to the miners.

[babylonsister]

3. Is the FBI scrubbing its own files, and who directed them to? Hmmm... nt

[Holly_Hobby]

4. How convenient. n/t

[Algorem]

7. it's easy to lose a quarter

fbi has a hole in it's pocket

[Don_1967]

8. if the n.s.a. had been taping the f.b.i. phones instead of ours

we would know what happen.

[Eurobabe]

9. Where's that goddamn Sandy Berger?

It's ALL his and the Clenis's fault.

[kentuck]

15. I'm sure that's who the Freepers are blaming...

Sandy Burglar...

[illinoisprogressive]

10. Who stole them???

If the whitehouse cronies did, it's to find out who and go after them
If it's the good guys, bully for them.

[helderheid]

11. a quarter of its files... WOW. Recommended!

[DoYouEverWonder]

12. How the hell can these clowns provide for our security

when they can't even secure themselves?

[Morgana LaFey]

25. Oh, please. Surely you don't think this is an accident? nt

[originalpckelly]

13. Dum, duh dum dum? This sounds like Watergate...

files that could prove the FBI is watching reporters have gone missing? Something's not right here, and it's bleedin obvious.

[oasis]

16. You pricks better find them before 2008 or heads will be rolling.(eom)

:grr:

[cui bono]

17. I'd be willing to bet 22 is the number of WH initiated leaks. n/t

[riderinthestorm]

18. Too important to be lost in Ford-mania today. K & R.

This is a staggering number.... :wow:

[Imagevision]

19. With upcoming Bushco investigations, musc is going to start disappearing, guranteed!!

[robertpaulsen]

20. K & R! Important, though not surprising in light of the anthrax cover up.

:kick:

[Kolesar]

21. Wow. That Gerstein writer is reporting from the Sun!

See the original post.

[Imagevision]

22. Missing Files? - yeah! this is really startling, especially with up coming investigations!!

Cheney ordered a couple of hundred shredders ASAP!

[rambler_american]

26. Cheney ordered a couple of hundred shredders ASAP!

if Nixon had had the sense to destroy those tapes before he was ordered to turn them over he would have finished his second term. These guys won't make that mistake.

[intheflow]

27. The files are just "missing."

"misplaced"

"absent-mindedly set down some place"

"not readily at hand"

So don't worry, Kids! They're not "gone" or "stolen" or "shredded," they're just "missing." They'll turn up some time, we're sure. Now go back to your regularly scheduled programming. There's nothing to see here.

:sarcasm:

[Land Shark]

28. the most popular books/mags at libraries have lower "missing" rates

I'd be willing to bet. k&R

[Contrite]

29. Libby's trial starts Jan. 16

Coincidence?

"In an abundance of caution, we advise you that we have learned that not all email of the Office of Vice President and the Executive Office of President for certain time periods in 2003 was preserved through the normal archiving process on the White House computer system. (Ex. C, p. 6)" Patrick Fitzgerald

[bobthedrummer]

30. kick