Judicial Watch announced today it received records of 14 referrals of Federal Bureau of Investigation employees to the organization's Office of Professional Responsibility for the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive or classified information.
The disclosure comes on the heels of Judicial Watch's uncovering a FBI report detailing fired FBI Director James Comey kept FBI documents on President Trump at his house.
All complaints, referrals, or other reports received by the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility related to the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive and/or classified information by any employee of the FBI. Any records documenting the closure or other final disposition of any complaint, referral, or other report described in part one of this request.
SES employee released the FBI Sensitive information to a reporter and lacked candor not under oath and under oath when questioned about it, in violation of Offense Codes 4.10; 2.5; and 2.6.
An SES agent who "Misused an FBI database, and provided sensitive information to a former FBI employee" was reported to have had as mitigation that he felt he "Had the support of his Division to use his discretion." OPR proposed a 15-day suspension, but the final decision was to give a letter of censure.
"No wonder the FBI was leaking so profusely. Collectively, these documents show lenient treatment for evident criminal activity. Only four of the 14 employees found to have made an unauthorized disclosure were dismissed from the FBI," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
In April 2019, Judicial Watch sued for records of communications between the FBI and McCabe related to his book, The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-obtains-records-of-14-referrals-of-fbi-employees-for-leaking-sensitive-or-classified-information/
The disclosure comes on the heels of Judicial Watch's uncovering a FBI report detailing fired FBI Director James Comey kept FBI documents on President Trump at his house.
All complaints, referrals, or other reports received by the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility related to the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive and/or classified information by any employee of the FBI. Any records documenting the closure or other final disposition of any complaint, referral, or other report described in part one of this request.
SES employee released the FBI Sensitive information to a reporter and lacked candor not under oath and under oath when questioned about it, in violation of Offense Codes 4.10; 2.5; and 2.6.
An SES agent who "Misused an FBI database, and provided sensitive information to a former FBI employee" was reported to have had as mitigation that he felt he "Had the support of his Division to use his discretion." OPR proposed a 15-day suspension, but the final decision was to give a letter of censure.
"No wonder the FBI was leaking so profusely. Collectively, these documents show lenient treatment for evident criminal activity. Only four of the 14 employees found to have made an unauthorized disclosure were dismissed from the FBI," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
In April 2019, Judicial Watch sued for records of communications between the FBI and McCabe related to his book, The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-obtains-records-of-14-referrals-of-fbi-employees-for-leaking-sensitive-or-classified-information/
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