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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-13-07 12:49 PM
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The Administration leak machine to be exposed.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070113/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/justice_leak

By LARA JAKES JORDAN and MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writers Fri Jan 12, 10:18 PM ET

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department is fighting in court to keep secret a government report concluding that it leaked confidential and damaging information against a former prosecutor accused of bungling a high-profile terror trial.

Justice attorneys say they can't disclose all the contents of the December 2004 report by the department's inspector general without violating employees' privacy.

However, ex-Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard G. Convertino of Detroit said the Justice Department violated his own privacy rights by revealing to the media that he was the subject of an internal ethics inquiry after he criticized the Bush administration's counterterrorism strategy.



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Independent_Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-13-07 01:33 PM
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1. K&R!
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bleever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-13-07 03:51 PM
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2. Privacy concerns from a Justice Dept. that allows warrantless surveillance?
K&R.
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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-13-07 03:59 PM
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3. Leak dirt on someone
then refuse to discuss it citing privacy concerns. Sounds like the plan. :sarcasm:
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bleever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-13-07 05:02 PM
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4. Kick.
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