Thursday, February 16, 2006
They can't grab their own butts with both hands
In another amazing feat of handling involving scret and sensitive intelligence, the Bushoviks managed to release still classified secrets to defense attorneys in a terrorism prosecution.
The unsealed records, included in boxes of selected classified data turned over to defense lawyers in April, included what a federal prosecutor called "extraordinarily sensitive information."And these are the people that claim they can best defend the US? Just another part of the Gang That Can't Shoot Straight.
But it was more than four months before FBI agents discovered, on Aug. 12, that the documents included still-secret data not intended for release.
When authorities scrambled to retrieve the secret documents from a courthouse room reserved for defense lawyers, a court security official blocked their access, records show.
According to a government legal brief filed in the case, the erroneous disclosures represent the first such misstep in the 27-year history of the nation's top-secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court. Defense lawyers have always been denied access to applications and affidavits justifying warrants for national security surveillance.
Such documents commonly include highly sensitive and classified information from a variety of U.S. intelligence agencies, foreign intelligence services and confidential sources, prosecutors acknowledged.
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