Sen Shelby illegally obtained FBI files on his political enemies-seeking NSA Intercepts of others

[kpete]

Richard Shelby illegally obtained FBI files on his political enemies, and was seeking NSA intercepts of others. This is the Senator who leaked the fact that the NSA had intercepted bin Laden's satellite communications to Fox News' Carl Cameron. Kind of makes you wonder what political decisions at the Justice Department prevented Shelby from being prosecuted.



“Shelby hated Tenet,” said another former CIA station chief. “Shelby would come through town and ask for dirt about Tenet. He made no secret of that. He always said, ‘I’m going to get you a new director.’”

(Tenet) recounted how, in December 1996, shortly after President Bill Clinton nominated his national security advisor Anthony Lake to be CIA director, Shelby approached him after a committee briefing. (Tenet was then deputy director.)

“George, he drawled,” according to Tenet, “if you have any dirt on Tony Lake, I sure would like to have it.”


........ “National Security Agency officials told us that Shelby staffers had been asking whether there was derogatory information in their communications intercepts on Lake.”

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Shelby’s ability to obtain FBI files, which could be filled with uncorroborated allegations and rumors, he added, set a bad precedent.

“Using intelligence agencies to go after officials,” he said, “is not a good idea.”

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