From the Keystone Kops Department, one from the Washington Post, with thanks to Nobody:
Ahmed Fathy Mehalba, who was released from jail earlier this month, contacted the FBI's Boston office Tuesday after he realized agents had inadvertently given him the computer disk containing the secret files along with his personal property.Mehalba had the disk in his possession for only a "matter of hours" before the FBI retrieved it, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Ricciuti. "Someone in the bureau obviously made a serious mistake," Ricciuti said.
FBI spokeswoman Gail Marcinkiewicz said the disk was not labeled "secret" -- as all classified data should be -- because prosecutors had to keep it in the same condition as when it was seized from Mehalba. Authorities have not said what exactly was stored on the disk, other than it concerns "national defense."
Mehalba, an Egyptian-born U.S. citizen who was working as a civilian Arabic translator at Guantanamo, was arrested at Boston's Logan International Airport on Sept. 29, 2003, after customs agents found the disk containing hundreds of documents labeled "SECRET" or "SECRET/NOFORN" among 131 other disks in his luggage.
"He realized agents had inadvertently given him the computer disk containing the secret files along with his personal property."
For the love of ...! These nincompoops are our federal agents?
We're in deep sh*t!
this is off topic but over spring break i read a really good book called "Hell is over" by micheal tucker it is rather new but it is a great book and reveals a lot.
AND EVERYBODY THINKS I'M CRAZY????
REMEMBER a Gun in hand is better than 2 cops on the phone!!
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GOD BLESS THE USA AND HER FGHTING FORCES AND ALL WHO FIGHT WITH HER GIVE THEM STRENGTH, WISDOM, SIGHT, AND COURAGE TO STAY THE COURSE TO VICTORY TO DESTROY ALL ISLAMIC TERRORIST AND ALL WHO SUPPORT THEM OPEN THE WORLDS EYES TO THEIR THREAT LET NOT THE WORLD BE DECEIVED BY THEM AMEN
Catherine - LOL!
Posted by: Carolyn2 at March 28, 2005 08:10 PM
Gold Star or the Monkey thing!!!
ROTFL!!!!
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God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength, Wisdom, Sight, and Courage to stay the course to Victory[FREEDOM] to Destroy ALL Islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them open the Worlds Eyes to their Threat give the World Courage to Stand Up and Fight Amen
First April Glaspie, then this! Well, State does tend to reward bureaucratic timidity.
Something doesn't make sense here...
How did the custom's agents know that there were 'secrets' on the disk if it was not labelled? (And it was NOT labelled later, as they said, when they let it slip back into the grasp of the released 'thief'.)
We have to assume someone KNEW what to look for [had been warned] and then played the disk somewhere at Logan. Why did they suspect anything? And, if the guy was carrying illegal secret documents, why was he released? And, if he was a criminal out on bail, why did he report to the police that they has given him back the 'secret' [unmarked] disk? Even if he had copied it by then, it would be silly for a real crook to clue in these clueless cops.
Either it was an 'innocent' screw up ... in which case, who released this information? Shouldn't they have just kept quiet about this gaffe? To preserve some dignity, and not let out enemies know we're such screw-ups? Or it is something that makes no sense, as reported, because the real story isn't yet out.
What's with security?
When will somebody be held responsible for SOMETHING!?!?
9/11. Nobody fired.
Abu Ghraib. Nobody fired.
'Cleared' prisoners at Guantanamo released, only to show up back on the battlefield in Afghanistan.
Nobody fired.
When?????
Folks,
Maybe the Diplomatic Corps babe was merely an incompetent, and not an anti-American plant in State, but the Fifth Column really DOES reach far.
For those who really want to lose some sleep, read Paul Sperry's book, "Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington."
Kinda makes you mad.
I am reading it now, cubed.