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As a side note, because the Bush-era failed, sad-sack former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has been in the news recently, it recalled how he too mishandled Top Secret classified information.
To wit:
"While serving as attorney general, Alberto Gonzales mishandled top secret documents, risking the release of classified information about two of the Bush administration's most sensitive counterterrorism efforts - a surveillance program and detainee interrogations.
Mishandling classified materials violates Justice Department regulations and removing them from special secure facilities without proper authorization is a crime. But a report issued Tuesday by the Justice Department's inspector general says the agency decided not to press charges against Gonzales, who resigned under fire last year.
Lawyers for Gonzales acknowledge he did not store or protect the top secret documents - a set of handwritten notes about the surveillance program and 17 other papers - as he should have.
...
At issue is how, and where, Gonzales stored the documents, which are classified as sensitive compartmentalized information, or SCI.
SCI materials are among the highest and most sensitive levels of classified top secret documents and usually relate to national security cases."
DOJ: Gonzales Mishandled Top-Secret Docs
September 2, 2008, 4:12 AM
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/doj-gonzales-mishandled-top-secret-docs/
The damning OIG report is here:
Report - Office of the Inspector General - US Department of Justice
Give it a lil looksee. If you're pressed for time, do a Ctrl^F for TS/SCI markings.
Have fun!
"A small snip: "Gonzales told the OIG that he knew it was “very, very limited access.” However, he stated he could not say whether the program was TS or TS/SCI, although he said he knew it was of the highest level of secrecy.
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Gonzales said he “assumed” documents related to the
program bore classification markings that would have indicated the precise
classification of the program, but that he did not create such documents, so he
could not be certain...."
To wit:
"While serving as attorney general, Alberto Gonzales mishandled top secret documents, risking the release of classified information about two of the Bush administration's most sensitive counterterrorism efforts - a surveillance program and detainee interrogations.
Mishandling classified materials violates Justice Department regulations and removing them from special secure facilities without proper authorization is a crime. But a report issued Tuesday by the Justice Department's inspector general says the agency decided not to press charges against Gonzales, who resigned under fire last year.
Lawyers for Gonzales acknowledge he did not store or protect the top secret documents - a set of handwritten notes about the surveillance program and 17 other papers - as he should have.
...
At issue is how, and where, Gonzales stored the documents, which are classified as sensitive compartmentalized information, or SCI.
SCI materials are among the highest and most sensitive levels of classified top secret documents and usually relate to national security cases."
DOJ: Gonzales Mishandled Top-Secret Docs
September 2, 2008, 4:12 AM
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/doj-gonzales-mishandled-top-secret-docs/
The damning OIG report is here:
Report - Office of the Inspector General - US Department of Justice
Give it a lil looksee. If you're pressed for time, do a Ctrl^F for TS/SCI markings.
Have fun!
"A small snip: "Gonzales told the OIG that he knew it was “very, very limited access.” However, he stated he could not say whether the program was TS or TS/SCI, although he said he knew it was of the highest level of secrecy.
11
Gonzales said he “assumed” documents related to the
program bore classification markings that would have indicated the precise
classification of the program, but that he did not create such documents, so he
could not be certain...."