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Report Finds Gonzales Mishandled Classified Documents; Won't Be Charged

From the AP:

The report says Gonzales failed to store the documents in proper secure facilities and at one point took them home. The report released Tuesday also says he stored them in his briefcase because he did not know the combination to the safe at his house.

Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine referred the security breach to the department's National Security Division. But the reports says prosecutors there declined to bring charges against Gonzales.

. . . Additionally, Gonzales kept some of the documents in a safe in his office that was accessed by several employees who "lacked the necessary security clearances for this information," the report concludes.


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Bizarre story.


How did Glen Fine find out that Gonzo violated security protocol?


Who ratted on him?...was there a leak, and Fine was tracking the leak?

This is great news FOR SANDY BERGER.

What is the disposition of Gonzales' offending notes now, pray tell?

Justice = "declined to prosecute" for all Bush cronies regardless of gravity of offense.

Rename: Department of Declined to Prosecute (DDP)

or, Department of Escaping Justice (DEJ)

These types of breaches are rarely ever prosecuted. Unless there is a pattern of mishandling or misusing classified materials the upshot is almost always a reprimand and/or revocation of clearance not criminal prosecution. As much as I think Gonzo is a bastard of the highest calibre he's not getting away with anything here.

The program was so secret that Members of Congress had to write classifed letters of protest to DOJ and then had to lock them in their SCIF-approved safes.

Gonzales, on the other hand, carried them around in a briefcase, in non-SCIF locations, left them in his house (does he have hired cleaners?), in his briefcase, and in a safe accessible to multiple DOJ staff.

I can understand why the WH didn't do anything about his flagarant disregard for classifed materials handling procedures while he was WH Counsel - since at the time the WH had a policy of investigating NONE of its leaks. They had former Secret Service Agent Jim Knodell specially placed at the White House to ensure that.

DOJ - whole different ballgame. But remember that 'back when - the Bush DOJ National Security Division was the same one that denied Fine's investigators top secret clearances.... Those clearances were essential to enable them to look into the leak about the various torture and surveillence programs. No clearances, no investigation.

Clearly the NSD was protecting Gonzales back then too.

In 2006...

Dept of Justice's own Office of Professional Responsibility denied SECRETS by Shane Harris & Murray Waas, National Journal Monday, May. 29, 2006 at 5:45 AM

An internal Justice Department inquiry into whether department officials -- including Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and then-Attorney General John Ashcroft -- acted properly in approving and overseeing the Bush administration's domestic eavesdropping program was stymied because investigators were denied security clearances to do their work. The investigators, however, were only seeking information and documents relating to the National Security Agency's surveillance program that were already in the Justice Department's possession, two senior government officials said in interviews.

Maybe, just maybe, those investigators couldn't have the clearances because they'd discover Gonzales' infractions?

Who headed DOJ's National Security Division back then? Kenneth Wainstein.

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"a bastard of the highest calibre"

You're insulting the real high-calibre bastards. Gonzales is very small-bore, even if he had a big job for a little while.

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Didn't know the combination to his own safe? Why am I not surprised?

If an investigation into the bush years ever begins, it will take years, if not decades, to sort everything out.

The sheer volume of shit heaped onto every facet of government in mindnumbing.

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A Bush appointee who didn't grasp the severity of the responsibility of his job? I for one am shocked.

I think I could explain some of the gaps in this story with the idea that:

--I did sign under penalty of prosecution, A 47 PAGE US DOJ OIG--later moved to FBI OPR Complaint.

--That complaint mentioned alot...like DETENATORS IN SOUTH DAKOTA went to OKCITY, with THOMAS S. BEAN TIPPING SFPD, to that event.

--BEAN becomes target of NSA TSP NEUTRALIZATION with lots of dirty tricks, assaults, threats, breakins, sabotage, etc.

--BEAN GETS CHIPPED, MIND CONTROLLED (See, FBI OPERATION SLAMMER) and TORTURED WITH DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS by DOD CIFA UNIT working with SIOUX FALLS FBI AGENT STEVEN PLUTA who all colluded in 3 SOUTH DAKOTA MURDERS, and ATTEMPTED MURDERS.

--what is this about.....RCMP ARREST WARRANT FOR MIAMI FBI AGENT TERRY NELSON'S DRUG PIPELINE IN MONTANA with FBI hitman MIKE "chuckie" PETERS whacking out the witnesses long ago...RACICOT, was GOP treasurer who protected it all as Montana Gov, ....etc.


IF YOU CAN GET PAST MY blog's use of derogatory remarks and cheap shots...racial slurs...etc....you will know what this is all about.

Remember...MINNESOTA US ATTY PAULOSE...got piss pounded for doing what Gonzo did..."sloppiness with National Security files"...MARK GORDON IN ST PAUL coerced to work for Minneapolis FBI....Mark got fried with microwave radiation, like his brother, RICH GORDON, Daschle's ex chief of staff...murdered with brain tumor and thought to be organizing a Daschle supporting congressional inquiry into the Montana FBI drug distribution.

Makes sense...now...right?

I think I could explain some of the gaps in this story with the idea that:

--I did sign under penalty of prosecution, A 47 PAGE US DOJ OIG--later moved to FBI OPR Complaint.

--That complaint mentioned alot...like DETENATORS IN SOUTH DAKOTA went to OKCITY, with THOMAS S. BEAN TIPPING SFPD, to that event.

--BEAN becomes target of NSA TSP NEUTRALIZATION with lots of dirty tricks, assaults, threats, breakins, sabotage, etc.

--BEAN GETS CHIPPED, MIND CONTROLLED (See, FBI OPERATION SLAMMER) and TORTURED WITH DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS by DOD CIFA UNIT working with SIOUX FALLS FBI AGENT STEVEN PLUTA who all colluded in 3 SOUTH DAKOTA MURDERS, and ATTEMPTED MURDERS.

--what is this about.....RCMP ARREST WARRANT FOR MIAMI FBI AGENT TERRY NELSON'S DRUG PIPELINE IN MONTANA with FBI hitman MIKE "chuckie" PETERS whacking out the witnesses long ago...RACICOT, was GOP treasurer who protected it all as Montana Gov, ....etc.


IF YOU CAN GET PAST MY blog's use of derogatory remarks and cheap shots...racial slurs...etc....you will know what this is all about.

Charged? Who's going to be charged? They'll throw Ted Stevens under the bus because he's too crooked and a jerk to boot.

Our former great Attorney General will not only be charged but given a high paying, important sounding job because he is a made man in the Republican Criminal Organization.

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