FBI Says Files In Leak Cases Are 'Missing'

[Mark E. Smith]

The New York 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 case "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."

http://www.nysun.com/article/45755

So the files on the investigations of leaks have ... leaked? Or should we just say they have
swum back upstream...

[Double T]

1. That's convenient...........

looks like EVERYONE is contributing to a cover up.

[Occulus]

5. So is this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2987035

[Double T]

6. Looks like the infestation of corruption is widespread.............

these two events show the desperation and probable guilt of ALL THOSE involved.

[nashville_brook]

2. and i wonder which "leak investigations"

[Turbineguy]

3. That must mean that

a lot of republicans will be "not guilty".

[KansDem]

4. I wonder if a lot of these files "went missing"

...after the November 7th election this year.

Hmmmmm...makes one ponder

[sofa king]

24. I wonder if one of them had to do with Sandy Berger.

As I recall it, Berger was up for a misdemeanor charge.

But disclosing the secret investigation in progress (as it happened, in the middle of the '04 election cycle) was a felony.

Now, who woulda done that, I wonder?

[Theduckno2]

7. Ok, I'll be the bubbly, exceptionally naive optimist.

Wouldn't it be interesting if those files were held for safekeeping and then make a timely reappearance (unredacted, of course) before a House Subcommittee?

I say to the previous, pessimistic, posters: "There you go with them negative vibes again!"

A special thanks goes to Donald Sutherland's character in "Kelly's Heroes". :)

[wildbilln864]

10. I like the way..

you think Theduckno2. Hmmm.

[tanyev]

8. Check the state of the art vault in the new Bush lieberry in a few years.

[aquart]

9. You mean liebury, don't you?

[tanyev]

16. Oh, yes, that's even better.

:toast:

[Rex]

11. Sounds like some people are getting paid to be 'confident'.

I wonder why? :eyes:

[Old and In the Way]

12. Remember that industrial paper shredder heading for Cheney's residence just before the election?

22 files "missing" is just another unfortunate coincidence, I'm sure...

[DarkTirade]

13. So a group charged with federal investigations...

can't even investigate the theft of their own files?

[magellan]

14. And yet we're supposed to feel confident that they're protecting us?

Incompetency doesn't begin to describe this.

[jazzjunkysue]

15. When you find the $8 Billion lost in Iraq, the papers will be right underneath.

I promise.

[indypaul]

17. Remember they were filed right behind the Texas Air Nat Guard Files. n/t

n/t

[Supersedeas]

19. Don't make the WH have to do a Dan Rather on your arse.

[truthisfreedom]

18. It's called a fucking MAFIA.

Our government is no longer a government. It's completely and totally corrupt.

[BlueCollar]

20. probly burned up in the same fire

as Bush* military records...

or Clinton's penis has them...

:shrug:

[bobthedrummer]

21. Yep, we living in HOMELAND (TM) overseen by the BFEE

and some love it that way, it's safe and secure and a nice place to shop...la la la

[lovuian]

22. Its pretty obvious the FBI is covering up

by missing files and reporter dies


this sounds threats and pressure

[The Backlash Cometh]

23. I'm so fed up with these people getting away with this shit.