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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cody andre who wrote (65929)	2/14/2000 6:45:00 AM
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February 14, 2000 Justice official not prosecuted in leak By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Justice Department did not prosecute the former head of its intelligence division despite his admission to investigators that he disclosed classified information, The Washington Times has learned. Richard Scruggs, a friend of Attorney General Janet Reno's, who brought him to Washington, provided secret information to two reporters about an electronic eavesdropping FBI operation against the Japanese group Aum Shin Rikyo in 1995, according to Justice Department officials familiar with the case. Justice Department officials disclosed some aspects of the investigation into unauthorized disclosure on condition of anonymity. It is the first time information has been disclosed from the secret court set up under the 1979 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The Justice Department's downplaying of the Scruggs findings is similar to the CIA's limited response to former director John Deutch, who was caught mishandling classified documents but not prosecuted. In both cases, government officials have charged that security infractions were covered up to protect senior personnel. Mr. Scruggs, currently the chief of the public corruption section for the U.S. Attorney's Office in southern Florida, said in an interview with The Times that he "indirectly confirmed" the classified information presented to him by the two reporters. He denied being the original source for information on the FBI surveillance of Aum Shin Rikyo obtained by reporters Jim McGee and Brian Duffy and disclosed in their book "Main Justice."(cont) washtimes.com