CornMonkey
09-06-2002, 04:10 PM
Article here (http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/moussaoui020906.html)
W A S H I N G T O N, Sept. 6 — The government mistakenly gave alleged terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui classified documents related to al Qaeda, ABCNEWS has learned.
The material — both on disk and as hard copy documents — was sent to Moussaoui as part of discovery for his legal defense, said several legal sources, including one at the Justice Department.
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Officials "are not 100 percent certain, but there is no evidence that Zacarias Moussaoui had read" the classified material, the Justice Department official said.
The sensitive material apparently was sent over among items the government is required to turn over to Moussaoui for his legal defense before it was "scrubbed" of secret material, and prosecutors then had to play catch up when they realized the mistake.
After the foul-up was discovered, U.S. marshals, with the permission of U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema, who is hearing Moussaoui's case, searched Moussaoui's Alexandria, Va., jail cell at least three times, sources said.
It is not clear if all the classified material has been retrieved.
i'm not even gonna comment on this one.
W A S H I N G T O N, Sept. 6 — The government mistakenly gave alleged terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui classified documents related to al Qaeda, ABCNEWS has learned.
The material — both on disk and as hard copy documents — was sent to Moussaoui as part of discovery for his legal defense, said several legal sources, including one at the Justice Department.
...
Officials "are not 100 percent certain, but there is no evidence that Zacarias Moussaoui had read" the classified material, the Justice Department official said.
The sensitive material apparently was sent over among items the government is required to turn over to Moussaoui for his legal defense before it was "scrubbed" of secret material, and prosecutors then had to play catch up when they realized the mistake.
After the foul-up was discovered, U.S. marshals, with the permission of U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema, who is hearing Moussaoui's case, searched Moussaoui's Alexandria, Va., jail cell at least three times, sources said.
It is not clear if all the classified material has been retrieved.
i'm not even gonna comment on this one.