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Article: CIA ACCUSED OF BLOCKING KEY INVESTIGATION EX-CHIEF HAD TAKEN SECRET DATA HOME.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- February 1, 2000
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Top CIA officials impeded an internal investigation into evidence that the agency's former director, John Deutch, mishandled large volumes of secret material, a classified report by the agency's inspector general concludes.
The report details a series of actions by the agency's former executive director and general counsel that it says ``had the effect of delaying a prompt and thorough investigation of this matter.''
It asserts that George Tenet, the agency's current director and Deutch's top deputy, should have done more to ``forcefully ensure'' that the case was properly investigated. But the report also says that Tenet said he had given instructions ...