Government likely to open criminal probe into NSA leaks: officials
Source: Reuters
By Mark Hosenball
WASHINGTON | Fri Jun 7, 2013 8:37pm EDT
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama's administration is likely to open a criminal investigation into the leaking of highly classified documents that revealed the secret surveillance of Americans' telephone and email traffic, U.S. officials said on Friday.
The law enforcement and security officials, who were not authorized to speak publicly, said the agencies that normally conduct such investigations, including the FBI and Justice Department, were expecting a probe into the leaks to a British and an American newspaper.
Such investigations typically begin after an agency that believes its secrets have been leaked without authorization files a complaint with the Justice Department. It was unclear on Friday whether a complaint had been submitted by the publicity-shy National Security Agency, which was most directly involved in the collection of trillions of telephone and email communications.
However, one U.S. official with knowledge of the situation said that given the extent and sensitivity of the recent leaks, federal law may compel officials to open an investigation. A criminal probe would represent another turn in the Obama administration's battle against national security leaks. This effort has been under scrutiny lately because of a Justice Department investigation that has involved searches of the phone records of Associated Press journalists and a Fox News reporter.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/08/us-usa-security-leaks-idUSBRE95700K20130608
[center]“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ~George Orwell[/center]
- When I first read the above passage, they were just words to me. Haunting words, but words nonetheless. Words from a fictional book about an dystopian future far removed from my reality. Or so I thought at the time...... 
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...the horror was that he might also be wrong. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
- Orwell was a time-traveler....
Now what?
Heads will roll!
- Innocent heads, as usual.
...they seem to have a free hand.
- Who probes the probers?
[center]“Problems cannot be solved with the same mind set that created them.” ~Albert Einstein[/center]
...maybe they should ask President Xi if he knows anything about it.
- w/ apologizes to EarlG
