{"id":6639,"date":"2006-02-16T13:34:22","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T18:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6639"},"modified":"2006-02-16T13:34:22","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T18:34:22","slug":"a-different-kind-of-de-classification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/a-different-kind-of-de-classification\/","title":{"rendered":"A different kind of de-classification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really want to have confidence in the administration&#8217;s ability to pursue and prosecute terrorist suspects, but sometimes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-error16feb16,0,3489874,full.story?coll=la-home-headlines\">it&#8217;s not easy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Federal officials in Dallas mistakenly disclosed classified counter-terrorism information in a breach of national security that could also threaten one of the country&#8217;s biggest terrorism prosecution cases, newly unsealed court records show.<\/p>\n<p>The blunder exposed secret wiretap requests that commonly include classified information from U.S. agencies, foreign intelligence reports and confidential sources.<\/p>\n<p>The criminal case involves officials of the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, a now-defunct Islamic charity with alleged ties to terrorists. Its assets were frozen by the Treasury Department three months after the Sept. 11 attacks.<\/p>\n<p>In announcing the seizure of the charity&#8217;s funds, President Bush told a Rose Garden gathering in December 2001 that the charity was among those who &#8220;do business with terror.&#8221; &#8230; Holy Land officials &#8220;effectively rewarded past &#8212; and encouraged future &#8212; suicide bombings and terrorist activities on behalf of Hamas,&#8221; then-Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft said at a news conference announcing the indictments in July 2004.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, attorneys wanted to drown the defense for the Holy Land Foundation in paperwork &#8212; but turned over far more than they intended to. Four months later, the FBI discovered the mistake. One federal prosecutor said &#8220;extraordinarily sensitive information&#8221; was inadvertently shared, including some electronic communications and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act material, including orders by the top-secret court.<\/p>\n<p>Oops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really want to have confidence in the administration&#8217;s ability to pursue and prosecute terrorist suspects, but sometimes, it&#8217;s not easy. Federal officials in Dallas mistakenly disclosed classified counter-terrorism information in a breach of national security that could also threaten one of the country&#8217;s biggest terrorism prosecution cases, newly unsealed court records show. The blunder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}